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Published in: democraciaAbiertaIndigenous peoples tell UN of persecutionIndigenous peoples are being persecuted and have called for an urgent examination of the dangerous situation faced...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaPost-conflict in Colombia (13). Post-war on drugsThe Havana agreements offer an opportunity to put an end to the war on drugs through an approach from a territorial...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaWe are gaining ground on the evil of authoritarianismIf we take into account that the Universal Declaration dates from 1948, and that subsequent legislative instruments...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaBrazil crisis: On heroes and coupsRejecting the language of an elite coup against a national-popular government is key to understand the Brazilian...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta#CIDHenCrisis: urgent action needed to save the regional human rights system in the AmericasThe Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) is in deep financial crisis. At a time when Human Rights in...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaEl Güegüense: strategies for eruption in NicaraguaThe conclusion to this series on Nicaragua’s important election year examines the main opposition coalition’s...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaIn fighting corruption, whistleblowers must be encouragedWhistleblowers and society must work together to combat the profound and dangerous penetration of organised crime...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta“Rethinking gender is a tool for world revolution”Increasingly, original ideas coming up from the Global South are getting into the world civil society agenda. The...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaWomen and children first: Homeland Security targets “family units” for deportation in May and JuneHomeland Security is about to embark on quest to arrest and deport Central Americans who applied for refugee status...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaOpen Letter to ECOSOC regarding the Committee on NGOsThe UN becomes all the more important a platform for voices demanding accountability and justice. And yet it is...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaDemocracy and political experimentation for the 21st centuryOur aim is to further our understanding of the scope and impact of political experimentation, and improve the...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaBrazil prepares to roll back green lawsDilma Rousseff´s government has in no way been a model of protection for the environment and indigenous areas....
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaAs peace deal nears, Colombia’s journalists and activists still live in fearColombia conflict´s end may be upon us. Peace, however, is only the beginning, as the long state of war stands out...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaNicaragua’s opposition and the myth of unityWith grand caudillos toppling across Latin America, President Daniel Ortega’s disparate opponents have caught the...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta"Youth is going to be part of the solution, in Brazil, and everywhere in the world"“We figure out how to bring global issues down to the field and make sure young people understand where their...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaWhat are we doing to build an empowered citizenry?Young activists throughout Latin America are bored of institutional and ideological politics. They are trying to...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaArgentina after kirchnerismo: The defeat of populism and Macri’s counter-hegemonic projectCurrent political change in Argentina is of great trascendence, as it intends to undo fundamental policies of the...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaIsraeli mishap in Latin America?A diplomatic incident between Brazil and Israel shows how Netanyahu is prisoner of his extreme-right and...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta"More people, more agency": Turning protests into movementsHow do we transform the waves of protests—which have occupied streets and squares worldwide over the past few...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaMiddle classes in Latin America (8). Divided at the ballot and in the streets in BrazilMid-income Brazilians have been supplying the mobilized “troops” for the battles around Dilma Rousseff’s...