During Colombia’s armed conflict, human rights defenders (HRDs) fought to promote human rights in the crosshairs of competing illegal armed groups. Often, the State was either absent or contributed to the problem.
Durante el conflicto armado, los defensores de los derechos humanos colombianos lucharon tanto en territorio controlado por los grupos armados como por el Estado. Hoy siguen siendo objeto de violencia.
Britain’s poorest children are increasingly subject to poor housing and dangerous policing tactics including Tasers and spit-hoods, with frighteningly little oversight or scrutiny, finds a major new report.
In Ukraine’s once proud mining region of Donbas, war, mismanagement and a stretched economy are combining to create an environmental catastrophe in the coal mining industry.
Such a party would contribute to the formation of a global demos – a pluralist, evolving political community of world citizens exercising political rights in a globalized public sphere.
El Congreso de Guatemala está creando una nueva ley que daría amnistía a miembros de las fuerzas armadas acusados de crímenes como secuestro y violación durante la guerra civil. English
Information Commissioner rules that Brexit department must release names of European Research Group MPs, following openDemocracy Freedom of Information appeal.
