Posts Tagged ‘sociales-y-culturales-desc’
Fiscal Policy in the Service of Human Rights
How, exactly, is fiscal policy related to human rights?
Read MoreNot Pretty in Pink: The Undisclosed Fashions of Farmed Salmon
People often choose cuts with bright pink to reddish hues, under the impression that these are fresher, tastier, and of better quality, thus warranting premium prices. The reality, however, is that “color does not affect these characteristics” and, in the case of farmed salmon, this color is actually manufactured.
Read MoreOpen Applications for Intensive Course on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
The Intensive Course on Social Rights opens its application process, open until August 15, 2017. The course, which will be taught from October 23 to 27, 2017 in Bogotá, offers advanced training on litigation, research, jurisprudence and innovative strategies for implementing social rights.
Read MoreCourt Recognizes consumers’ Right to Access Information About the Effects of Sugary Drinks on Health – A First in Colombia
The Supreme Court vindicated the right of consumers to access a commercial about the health effects of sugary drinks whose dissemination had been prohibited.
Read MoreSocial Rights Judgments and the Politics of Compliance: Making it Stick (Cambridge University Press)
The book “Social Rights Judgments and the Politics of Compliance”, edited by César Rodríguez Garavito, director of Dejusticia, Malcolm Langford (Univ. Oslo) and Julieta Rossi (Univ. Lanús) was just published.
Read More“Social Rights Judgments and the Politics of Compliance” published by Cambridge University is now available
The book “Social Rights Judgments and the Politics of Compliance”, edited by César Rodríguez Garavito, director of Dejusticia, Malcolm Langford (Univ. Oslo) and Julieta Rossi (Univ. Lanús) was just published.
Read MoreStates must guarantee the ESCR of refugees and migrants
The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ESCR) published a new press release clarifying the obligations that derive from the International Covenant on ESCR regarding refugee and migrant populations in each country.
Read MoreViolence against defenders of social rights is, in itself, a violation of ESCR
The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights of the United Nations recently reminded States that they have a responsibility to ensure the protection of human rights defenders.
Read MoreFiscal policy is a tool to fight poverty: communicated to the IACHR
Dejusticia and other organizations presented this press release to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), which offers some comments from civil society to the Commission’s preliminary report on Poverty and Human Rights in the Americas. The group of organizations welcome the initiative of the Commission to produce this report. We also emphasize the urgency of having normative standards that, at the inter-American level, serve as concrete parameters for analyzing the efforts of States to phase out poverty and extreme poverty.
Read MoreCreating visual benchmarks for human rights practice
There must be a way to incorporate the normative principles of the human rights framework in the visual comparisons that we make.
Read MoreDiscussion forum: The Future of Social Rights
As part of our Intensive Course on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: Latin America in a Global Context, we invite you to an event on October 25th on the future of socials rights. The event will be livestreamed.
Read MoreIntensive Course on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: Latin America in a Global Context Begins
The course brings national and international scholars in the area, as well as 23 participants to learn and build knowledge from the Global South.
Palliative Care and its Status in Latin America
Dejusticia launched a report on the status of palliative care across eight countries in Latin America.
Read MoreCampaign to raise awareness about the harm of sugary drinks
In Colombia, more than 50% of the population suffers from obesity or overweight. Sugary drinks have a direct effect on this statistic.
Read MoreConcealing hunger statistics
There are two ways to hide a scandalous statistic, like that of child deaths linked to malnutrition in Colombia. One is to solve the problem. The other one is to hide or retouch the statistics.
Read MoreOpen 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 MoreCulture and Its Intangible Benefits
We should take advantage of this moment when Colombia begins to question the role of culture in peace building to consider its contributions more broadly.
Read MoreESCR Start to Catch Up
The end of 2015 marked important milestones for the protection of ESCR in the UN and OAS human rights systems, in which both systems determined that these rights are justiciable.
The Violence Behind the Gold Route
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While all mining creates various problems, including environmental and social, these problems are magnified with illegal gold mining practices.
Read MoreThe Panama Papers and Collaborative Advocacy
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By now you have likely heard of the Panama Papers. Leaked to the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung by an anonymous source, the Papers include over 11.5 million records from the files of Mossack Fonseca, a Panamanian law firm that helped politicians, drug dealers, athletes, businessmen, and other rich clients hide wealth and evade taxes through offshore shell companies, investment funds, and tax havens.
Read MoreIntervention Litigating Article that Establishes Sales Tax
We intervened before the Constitution Court litigating the unconstitutionality of Numera 3 of Article 171 of Law 1607 of 2012, that modifies taxes and establish a sales tax.
Read MoreA World with Hunger
The problem of world hunger is not due to scarcity of food, but rather because of inequality accessing it.
Read MoreThe Santos Administration in Favor of Civil Liberties
This November will be remembered as a liberal month.
Read MoreRadical Deprivation on Trial
This book by César Rodríguez Garavito and Diana Rodríguez Franco is a fundamental contribution to the study of the most relevant judicial innovations courts have done in the past decade.
Read MorePress Release – International human rights network intervenes in case challenging large-scale disconnection of water supply to tens of thousands of low-income residents in Detroit
New York. February 9, 2015. The International Network for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ESCR-Net), a global network of over 220 groups and 50 individual advocates from around the world working to secure economic and social justice through human rights, has requested leave from the U.S. District Court to be recognized as amicus curiae[1] in the case of Lyda et al. v. City of Detroit[2]in support of residents challenging the City of Detroit’s decision to cut off water supply to thousands of households unable to pay their bills.
Read MoreHuman Rights, Democracy, and Development
Human rights are undergoing a transformation. Around the world debates have proliferated regarding human rights discourses, practices, and studies to the point that some speak about “the end of human rights.” This context is unlike anything since the beginning of the international human rights system around the mid twentieth century.
Read MoreMaking Social Rights Real: Implementation Strategies for Courts, Decision Makers and Civil Society
Given the disappointing implementation levels in various countries and across human rights systems, this guide seeks to contribute to the discussion regarding strategies for courts, international decision-makers, and civil society to increase the implementation of ESCR decisions.
Read MoreSocial Rights Taken Seriously: Towards a Dialogue Between Rights and Public Policy
The book investigates the application of various social rights with an emphasis on the right to education.
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