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This book is the collective effort of participants from Dejusticia’s annual Global Action-Research Workshop for Young Human Rights Advocates. The talented writers featured here are graduates from previous workshops who came together again in 2018 to explore the intersection between research and activism and what it holds for the future of human rights. The authors in this book question traditional methods and explore new ways and visions of advancing human rights in the troubled context in which we live today. Do the struggles of small-scale miners in Ghana, the use of strategic litigation in Lebanon, and the recognition of the rights of nature in India represent evidence for hope? Or is t...
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 s...
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Fires of Gold is a powerful ethnography of the often shrouded cultural, legal, political, and spiritual forces governing the gold mining industry in Ghana, one of Africa’s most celebrated democracies. Lauren Coyle Rosen argues that significant sources of power have arisen outside of the formal legal system to police, adjudicate, and navigate conflict in this theater of violence, destruction, and rebirth. These authorities, or shadow sovereigns, include the transnational mining company, collectivized artisanal miners, civil society advocacy groups, and significant religious figures and spiritual forces from African, Islamic, and Christian traditions. Often more salient than official bodies ...
Este libro es el resultado de un esfuerzo colectivo por parte de ex alumnos del Taller Global para Jóvenes Defensores de Derechos Humanos, organizado cada año por Dejusticia. Los talentosos autores de este libro son alumnos de distintas cohortes que volvieron a reunirse en 2018 para repensar el futuro de los derechos humanos desde la intersección entre el mundo de la investigación y del activismo. En este volumen, los y las autoras cuestionan los métodos tradicionales y exploran nuevas formas y visiones para hacer avanzar los derechos humanos en el convulsionado contexto del siglo XXI. Desde la lucha de los mineros a pequeña escala en Ghana, hasta el uso del litigio estratégico en el ...
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