Posts Tagged ‘Organismos Internacionales’
Colombia’s Environmental Near-sightedness and Clumsiness in ECLAC
In contrast to the majority of countries that want a treaty that guarantees the right to the free access to information in Latin America, Colombia has done everything in its power to make the instrument simply a declaraton of principles without teeth.
Read MoreInternational Justice Deserves Better
Issues regarding budgets and implementation of ruling are only two examples of the diverse challenges that show that international justice deserves better.
Read MoreUN, 70 Years
On June 26th, 1945, when the world had still not escaped the horrors of the Second World War, 50 countries ratified with optimism the so-called San Francisco Charter, which gave birth to the UN. Is there something to celebrate in the UN’s 70 years?
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 MoreQueering Human Rights
While we have seen impressive steps forward in providing protection for people of diverse sexual orientations and gender expressions, we need to ensure that greater coordination of advocacy and standard setting at the local, national, regional, and international levels does not create a homogenizing pressure to a single conception of sexuality or gender.
Read MoreThe Decline of Grand Treaties? Thoughts after the Lima Climate Summit
Civil society pressure from the bottom-up, rather than top-down treaty obligations, is the only way to get governments to act on global warming.
Read MoreThe Hot Climate Cash
What are the challenges of the Climate Green Fund? What should be the purpose of this money? In an interview with El Espectador, Andrea Rodríguez, Legal Counsel for Climate Change of AIDA, answers these questions and says that up until now expectations have not been met.
Read MoreLetter regarding human rights and drug policies to governments participating in the OAS General Assembly in Guatemala.
More than fifty civil society organizations from the Americas presented a letter to the governments gathered this week in Guatemala, for the General Assembly meeting of the OAS. In the letter the organizations urgently call for putting human rights protection at the center of the debate over drug policies.
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