Posts Tagged ‘sociales-y-culturales-desc’
See 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 More“Hunger elimination is one of the principal challenges”
Harsh Mander, Director of the Centre for the Study of Equity in India, was one of the instructors for the Intensive ESC Rights Course that took place last week in Bogotá. Carlos Baquero, researcher at Dejustcia, interviewed him for El Espectador about the fight against hunger.
Read MoreShame and Hope
In Colombia there are situations that inspire simultaneously shame and admiration, impotence and hope.
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 MoreBooks and Dollars
The increasing value of the dollar is an opportunity for us to think about the Colombian editorial industry.
Read MoreGreece and Legacies of Violence
What if we considered these problems not simply as a threat to a notion of peace undergirding the European project, but also as part and parcel of that project’s related legacy of violence?
Read MoreIf They Globalize Exploitation, Let’s Globalize Resistance
The struggle to protect land is a shared mission in the Americas that has been globalized together with exploitation.
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 MoreMarriage Is Not Enough: Beyond Legal Recognition
To read this post in English click here.
The U.S. became the twenty-second country in the world to approve marriage equality nationally following the U.S. Supreme Court ruling on Obergefell v Hodges.
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.
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