With the first adoption of an explicit EU Human Rights Strategy (2012) and the subsequent Human Rights and Democracy Action Plans (2012–2014, 2015–2019, and 2020–2024) adopted by the Council,Footnote 13 human rights in EU external relations were given a strategic operational framework. They ...
Canada-Ecuador Free Trade Agreement imperils Indigenousrights 2025-02-10 On:February 10, 2025 In:Human Rights With:0 Comments 'Today, more than ever, Canadian lawmakers should support human rights and reject this agreement negotiated behind communities' backs.' Viviana … Read more: Canada-Ecuador...
Back in 2021, the Ecuadorian government issued a landmark ruling stating that mining in its Los Cedros cloud forest violated the rights of nature. Another ruling in Ecuador stated that pollution had violated the rights of the Machángara River that runs through the capital, Quito. Beyond Ecuador...
(2024), some countries from the global South, such as Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Honduras, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Niger, Mali, and Mongolia, adopted special protection laws for the EHRDs, while the global North has been ...
during my diverse human rights practitioner’s experiences, amongst others at the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in Ecuador, (from 2010 to 2013 I was responsible for the areas of indigenous and afro-descendants’ collective rights and transitional justice). I was co...