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Populist authoritarian governments have jeopardized the human rights accomplishments of the 20th century. Ensuring their fulfillment has become a challenge for these governments and an issue for human rights defenders seeking to find ways to resist anti-democratic actions. This book seeks to expose the crisis of human rights at the hands of people who, despite rising to power through democratic means, now see democracy as a limiting institution that must be dismantled urgently. Restrictions on civil society and arbitrary detentions are some of the reasons why this populist and authoritarian vision is incompatible with human rights, which are guaranteed to some and denied to others. Through various narratives, the authors seek to recognize new spaces for struggle—such as political activism—to develop action-research tools in a context of crisis.
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...
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A pesar de la larga trayectoria en la protección y promoción de los derechos humanos de las organizaciones de la sociedad civil (OSC) venezolanas, y de su importante rol en la superación de la crisis que atraviesa el país, su voz no es ampliamente difundida y la mirada de la comunidad internacional se ha centrado principalmente en atender las consecuencias de la crisis. En el marco del trabajo de Dejusticia sobre el cierre de espacios de la sociedad civil en contextos autoritarios, y de la estrategia de solidaridad con el movimiento de derechos humanos del Sur gGlobal que promueve la organización, esta investigación presenta un diagnóstico de la situación de las OSC venezolana con el...
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