Posts Tagged ‘Latinoamérica’
Business, human rights and a Latin American agenda for regulation
The impacts of some companies on social rights, the lack of regulation in this field, and Dejusticia’s efforts to build a Latin American agenda to promote common standards of responsibility.
Read MorePopulism and imprisonment in the Americas
A noxious trend has been embedded in the region for years. It consists in believing that jail is the only way to combat crime and in stigmatizing certain populations as “criminals.”
Read MoreCriminal Systems for Youth in Latin America
This article analyzes recent reforms on youth criminal systems in Latin American countries.
Read MoreIn Defense of Latin America’s Indigenous People’s Right to Counsel
Indigenous communities are subject to the “official” justice system in various situations (as victims, witnesses, or the accused) and they have additional rights to those guaranteed to all citizens. In practice, to what extent are these rights guaranteed? In reality, rarely.
Read MoreDemocratic Judicial Independence
Jules Jouy, a nineteenth century Frenchman, said that there were three types of judges: those that decide standing, those that decide sitting in their chairs, and those that decide laying face down.
Read MoreMy North Is Your South
Why is it important to encourage dialogue across the Global South?
Read MoreIn Search of Rights: Drug Users and Governments Response in Latin America
The Drugs and Rights Studies Collective published a new report that examines government responses to the consumption of illicit drugs in eight countries in Latin America: Mexico, Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay and Bolivia.
Read MoreCaudillo Warriors
Jose Gasper Francia was a Paraguayan president who governed during the first part of the XIX Century.
Read MoreContested Lands, Contested Laws
The process of translating international conventions on consulta previa into laws has not been smooth.
Read MoreThe Crippled Philosopher
García Márquez had a unequalled talent for capturing that typical Latin American condition of living between myths and realities.
Read MoreThe Commerce Clubs
Commerce has became a subject of bilateral and regional agreements that work like exclusive country clubs, where everyone wants to become a member. But at what cost are these memberships?
Read MoreThe Ecuadorean Miracle?
With Venezuela and Argentina in trouble, many look to Ecuador in search of a inspiring model for the Left. The first impression is encouraging. Upon arriving at Quito’s superb airport you get a sense of the Correa government’s investment in infrastructure that extends into two-lane roads from the door to the Amazon in Puyo.
Read MoreIntellectual Revolutions
The insensitivity to social injustice and dogmatism are, in my opinion, two of the biggest ideological obstacles for the development of Latin America.
Read MoreCancer, Biotechnology Medicines and the Debate about Market Competition
Cancer rates are growing.
The International Agency for Research on Cancer of the World Health Organization (WHO), released it’s World Report on Cancer for 2014 last Monday, February 3, 2014.
Read MoreLet’s Talk about Education
The most important questions and the best answers. A better country in the short or long term, one way or another, will come from reforming education in Colombia
Read MoreInequality
Mockingly, people used to say that middle class Latin Americans dreamed of being like the Americans from the United States, while the upper class dreamed of being like the Europeans.
Read MoreEcuador is Mistakenly following Venezuela’s Lead at the OAS
Despite the Ecuadorian foreign ministry’s optimistic pronouncement last month that the countries of the region were close to reaching a consensus about moving the headquarters of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), their peer States seem to feel differently.
Read MoreDemocracy without Participation?
It is foolish, the result of an elitist and antiquated view, to think of social protests as a deficiency. On the contrary, it is the best sign that the excluded sector feels they have a voice to participate politically and express their disagreements.
Read MoreKirchner’s “nac&pop” project
Cristina Kirchner’s government illustrates the risks that populism has for democracy without offering any of its advantage in exchange.
Read MoreSearching for the Leader of the Year
2013 is ending. It is time to recap the year´s events. Media organizations are making their lists of the best and worst of the year in opinion pieces and articles.
Read MoreAddicted to punishment: The disproportionality of drug laws in Latin America
This document analyzes the proportionality of drug related crimes in seven Latin American countries through the study of the evolution of their criminal legislations from 1950 until 2012.
Read MoreAddicted to Punishment: The disproportionality of drug laws in Latin America
This document describes the disproportionality of the drug-related crimes in seven Latin American countries. Even though they are punishable behavior that does not directly or indirectly harm third parties, studies of drug crime related laws show a regional tendency to increase the use of criminal law
Read MoreEthnicity.gov: Natural resources, Indigenous Peoples and the Right to Prior Consultation
This book analyzes the origins, practice, and effects of the right to prior consultation for indigenous peoples.
Read MoreExperiences in Latin American Countries on the Investigation of Complex Crimes
In this document we describe some of the experiences in the region’s countries regarding the investigation of complex crimes.
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