As the rise in Colombia's mimimum wage impacts the country's coffee producers, how can consumers support socially just production?
While a positive step in negotiations between warring parties, what are the limits of uncovering the dark truths of Colombia's conflict?
Women from Colombia, Syria, Nicaragua and Iraq are implementing multi-layered prevention strategies in their communities against rape being used as a weapon of war, offering immediate protection and countering stigma.
The overwhelming majority of the victims of enforced disappearances are men. What happens to the women left behind?
Will Colombia force its military to face up to its past human rights abuses?
Never before has it become so clear that we live in societies that are politically democratic but socially fascist. The Podemos wave is a metaphor for every single attempt to find a progressive solution.
Situated far from sites of official peace negotiations, women’s activism, caretaking and community-building is often relegated to the category of service provision, but sustainable peace depends upon it.
The unilateral ceasefire signed by the FARC last December is a historic and positive step towards a permanent peace, but questions remain. From openDemocracy.
The use of international norms coupled with the solidarity of international support has been a successful formula that has meant relative peace for the community for nearly 10 years.
A catalogue of sexual violence has accompanied the armed conflict in Colombia. The peace talks must not brush it under the carpet.
Now that the main potential impediment to a peace deal–a change in government–is out of the picture, it is time to start tackling other threats, not just to securing the agreement, but also to its implementation.
Mientras que a menudo las iniciativas de justicia transicional rehúyen desmantelar los sistemas de macro criminalidad, la ley de Justicia y Paz en Colombia está arrojando luz sobre las raíces políticas y económicas del fenómeno paramilitar, y sus profundas relaciones con el estado. English.
