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2. Fraught with Pain: Access to Palliative Care and Treatment for Heroin Use Disorder in Colombia
- Author:
- Lucía Ramírez Bolívar and Isabel Pereira
- Publication Date:
- 08-2019
- Content Type:
- Working Paper
- Institution:
- Dejusticia
- Abstract:
- This books seeks to facilitate linkages between discussions on the right to health and discussions on drug policy reform. The populations we talk about here are the noes most in need of a change whereby drug culture measures cease to stand in the way of a life free from pain.
- Topic:
- Health, War on Drugs, and Drugs
- Political Geography:
- Colombia and Latin America
3. Beyond the Binary: Securing Peace and Promoting Justice after Conflict
- Author:
- Nelson Camilo Sánchez, Rodrigo Uprimny, Howard Varney, Michael Schwarz, Tatiana Rincón-Covelli, Claudio Nash, Tara Van Ho, and Oscar Parra
- Publication Date:
- 01-2019
- Content Type:
- Special Report
- Institution:
- Dejusticia
- Abstract:
- The main objective of Beyond the Binary is to place on record the need to formulate answers to the question of the role that criminal action and punishment should play in negotiated political transitions from war to peace. Discussions on the meaning and scope of concepts such as justice, accountability, and victim satisfaction continue to be fervent topics in specialized circles of what is now known as “the transitional justice field,” and in societies suffering from mass violence. Instead of solving the practical and theoretical dilemmas of these interpretative disputes, the experience and knowledge accumulated over the more than three decades that this field has been in existence have served only to deepen the debates and to adapt more of these discussions to new and constantly-changing scenarios and contexts.
- Topic:
- Conflict Resolution, Conflict Prevention, Peacekeeping, Conflict, and Peace
- Political Geography:
- Latin America and Global Focus
4. Addressing Inequality from a Human Rights Perspective: Social and Economic Justice in the Global South
- Author:
- César Rodríguez Garavito
- Publication Date:
- 08-2019
- Content Type:
- Special Report
- Institution:
- Dejusticia
- Abstract:
- This book points to an emerging set of ideas and practices being developed by activists, scholars, and courts from a range of countries that reveals the potential of human rights to resolve other radical injustices and to build more robust civil society movements against inequality and deregulation. Numerous countries around the globe are witnessing a similar experience in their modern political contexts: democratic tools and human rights instruments—which have facilitated undeniable improvements in the lives of millions—are proving largely insufficient for preventing extreme forms of exclusion. In other words, while human rights have played a fundamental role in highlighting inequalities based on factors such as gender and ethnic and racial identity, they have coexisted alongside persistent socioeconomic injustices and the rise of authoritarian populist governments that are jeopardizing human rights institutions and principles worldwide. Against this panorama, some are arguing that the human rights movement is incapable of warding off social injustice, while others are calling for a separation of the human rights and social movements. This book offers a third way: it points to an emerging set of ideas and practices being developed by activists, scholars, and courts from a range of countries that reveals the potential of human rights to resolve other radical injustices and to build more robust civil society movements against inequality and deregulation.
- Topic:
- Gender Issues, Human Rights, Race, Social Movement, Political Activism, and Inequality
- Political Geography:
- Latin America
5. Participation in Transitional Justice Measures
- Author:
- María Paula Saffon and Viviana Tacha
- Publication Date:
- 11-2019
- Content Type:
- Special Report
- Institution:
- Dejusticia
- Abstract:
- This book offers a comparative and critic study about the experiences of participation in the transitional justice. From a detailed study of 35 experiences of transitional justice corresponding to 20 countries, the document explores the different stages who have allowed to the victims and the civil society take part in the promotion, adoption and implementation of truth, justice, reparations and no repetition guarantees steps.
- Topic:
- Conflict Resolution, Conflict Prevention, Transitional Justice, and Justice
- Political Geography:
- Latin America
6. Summary of the CEDD regional report
- Author:
- Colectivo de Estudios de Drogas y Derecho (CEDD)
- Publication Date:
- 01-2019
- Content Type:
- Special Report
- Institution:
- Dejusticia
- Abstract:
- This publication is based on the Cannabis de Latinoamérica: la ola verde y los restos hacia la regulación report, and has the objective of analyzing the way punitive laws of drugs change disproportionately users, farmers and minor sellers of cannabis in the Americas, by sources of statistics information, official pieces of information and participants of the cannabis production process.
- Topic:
- Criminal Justice, Drugs, and Public Health
- Political Geography:
- Latin America
7. Palliative Care: A Human Rights Approach to Health Care
- Author:
- Isabel Pereira
- Publication Date:
- 05-2018
- Content Type:
- Working Paper
- Institution:
- Dejusticia
- Abstract:
- This report compiles the results of a research project aimed at describing the current palliative care situation in eight Latin American countries. The project’s general objective—to raise awareness and influence public policy around the need to approach palliative care from a human rights perspective—was achieved through rapprochement among professionals from various fields in the region, which in and of itself is a key step forward in terms of bringing together communities that defend patients’ rights with communities that advocate a drug policy embracing a public health focus.
- Topic:
- Health and Health Care Policy
- Political Geography:
- Latin America
8. Rising to the Populist Challenge: A new Playbook for Human Rights Actors
- Author:
- César Rodríguez and Krizna Gómez
- Publication Date:
- 04-2018
- Content Type:
- Special Report
- Institution:
- Dejusticia
- Abstract:
- This book collects and analyzes a repertoire of responses by human rights organizations to the crackdown against civil society in the populist context. Written by scholars and advocates in challenging political settings from around the world, this book offers ideas and inspiration to their peers in the human rights community who are grappling with and resisting the erosion of democracy and rights. This collection takes two steps towards clearing the path for this civil society transformation. First, it clarifies the specific challenges to human rights raised by contemporary populist regimes and movements. What is the populist playbook against human rights? Second, it contributes to documenting and learning from a wealth of initiatives by human rights actors. What innovations are human rights actors introducing into their strategies and narratives to counter those of populist regimes? In short, what is the human rights playbook against populism?
- Topic:
- Human Rights, Democracy, and Populism
- Political Geography:
- Latin America and Global Focus
9. The Inter-American System as a Tool for Ensuring Access to Pain Relief and Palliative Care
- Author:
- Diana Guarnizo Peralta
- Publication Date:
- 03-2018
- Content Type:
- Special Report
- Institution:
- Dejusticia
- Abstract:
- This document is aimed at medical personnel, civil society organizations, policy makers, and anyone interested in addressing the issue of palliative care from a human rights perspective. Although for years palliative care was confined to a strictly medical analysis, in recent times the international community and United Nations bodies have recognized palliative care as a human rights issue. This document seeks to demonstrate the many linkages between palliative care and human rights in terms of both the conception and the protection of palliative care. We hope this report serves as a useful tool for the medical community, patients, and patients’ families throughout the American continent who seek legal and human rights arguments to facilitate access to more humane end-of-life care, as well as for litigants and human rights activists who wish to protect and guarantee a life without pain for patients, including during their last days of life.
- Topic:
- Civil Society, Health, Health Care Policy, Public Policy, Public Health, and Medicine
- Political Geography:
- Latin America
10. Fighting the tide: Human Rights and Environmental Justice in the Global South
- Author:
- César Rodríguez
- Publication Date:
- 08-2017
- Content Type:
- Special Report
- Institution:
- Dejusticia
- Abstract:
- This text forms part of a long-term project undertaken by Dejusticia as part of its international work. The project revolves around the Global Action-Research Workshop for Young Human Rights Advocates that Dejusticia organizes each year to foster connections among and train a new generation of action researchers. The workshop helps participants develop action-research tools, understood as the combination of rigorous research and practical experience in social justice causes. For ten days, Dejusticia brings approximately fifteen participants and ten expert instructors to Colombia for a series of practical and interactive sessions on research, narrative writing, multimedia communication, and strategic reflection on the future of human rights. The aim is to strengthen participants’ capacity to produce hybrid-style texts that are at once rigorous and appealing to wide audiences. Participants are selected on the basis of an article proposal, which is then discussed during the workshop and subsequently developed with the help of an expert mentor (one of the instructors) over ten months until a publishable version is achieved, such as the chapters that make up this volume.
- Topic:
- Development, Environment, Human Rights, Justice, and Ecology
- Political Geography:
- Latin America and Global South