Posts Tagged ‘Derechos económicos’
Open Call for Applications: Intensive Social Rights Course
Applications due July 24th. The course, which offers advanced training in litigation, research, jurisprudence, and innovative social rights implementation strategies will take place October 24th-28th in Bogotá.
Read MoreSee What Our Global School’s Course on Social Rights in Bogotá Was Like
September 14th-18th, 2015 we hosted the Social Rights Intensive Course: Latin America in the Global Context with more than 50 participants from all over Latin America.
Read MoreOur Social Rights ESC Rights Course Begins
This course will take place from the 14th to the 18th of September. It will be taught by well-known academics and legal experts from Latin America and around the world.
Read MoreIllegally Mining Human Rights for Gold
Even though the price of gold has now reached its lowest level in the last five years, gold price increased steadily between 2000 and 2012. This increase produced a worldwide growth in mining activities, including illegal gold mining, which has become an unleashed monster for human rights.
Read MoreA Tax Is a Fee to Fulfill Human Rights
The referendum in Greece last week showed that a majority of the Greek population rejects the austerity measures needed to obtain another bailout from the European Central Bank, the International Monetary Fund (IFM), and the European Commission
Read MoreToo Big to Fail? Not in Latin America
In an unprecedented step, various countries in Latin America are moving forward with trials against high-ranking government officials as citizen movements against corruption strengthen.
Read MoreWorkers’ Power, Inequality and Human Dignity
Why does progress on equity and human rights depend more on workers’ organization than we usually think? A call to strengthen inclusive unionism.
Read MoreWhat Could Happen If Latin America Questions the Utopia of a World without Drugs at the UN?
The prohibitionist utopia of a “world without drugs” expressed in the Conventions on Narcotic Drugs signed in 1961, 1971, and 1988, is just that: an unreachable utopia.
Read MoreWatching Out from the South
For now, most anti-corruption activists demand for greater transparency. My specific call is that just as the global South human rights movement has enriched the debate on human rights generally, something similar could happen with anti-corruption monitoring from our countries.
Read MoreBlack Lives at the United Nations
I would argue that not only the centrality of the issue at the UPR, but also the direct manner in which it was treated, is thanks to the #BlackLivesMatter movement.
Read MoreThe Moment for Renewable Energy Has Arrived
With renewable energy governments can not only reduce environmental damage and the probability of environmental conflicts, but can also provide greater access to clean and cheaper energy both to marginalized and non-marginalized people.
Read MoreWho Is Who?
An important question for policies regarding racial and ethnic diversity is who is who?
Read MoreWhere Are Taxes in Human Rights?
How are taxes connected to human rights or how should they be? Why should human rights researchers and activists in the Global South care about taxes?
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