Posts Tagged ‘Movimientos sociales’
The first four books of the “Ideas for Peace Building” collection are already available
The series, which will have a total of ten texts, seeks to provide thematic documents that offer diagnoses and proposals on some of the post-agreement challenges.
Enough is enough!
In the last two years, every three days on average, a social leader or human rights defender was murdered.
Read MoreTaking Protests Seriously
The poor debate about the current rural worker and ethnic communities strike shows that we still do not take social movements seriously. The blindspot is not only Santos’– “such strike does not exist,” he said during the marches in 2013– it extends to the media, the state, and the academy.
Read MoreWhat to Do with Human Rights?
To read this post in English click here.
I would like see a human rights discourse with the participation of more people, more ways of knowing, and that is more local.
Read MoreThe Wiwa People and the Ranchería Dam (Documentary)
In the 2005, the INCODER began the construction of the El Cercado Dam on the Ranchería River. The government issued the construction license for the dam violating the right of the indigenous peoples of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta to prior consultation. In this documentary, members of the Wiwa People share how their physic and cultural survival was threatened by the construction and their means of resistance they have developed to challenge the Dam.
Read MorePrison for Protesting?
It had been a long time since such an objectionable, anti-democratic and unconstitutional piece of legislation, like the one presented by the Minister of Defense, meant to punish with jail time those who go out in to the streets to protest, was presented in Congress.
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