Resumen. El objetivo de este trabajo es analizar la criminalización de los defensores de migrantes en México que se produjo coetáneamente al fenómeno de las caravanas de migrantes. A través de un ...estudio de caso, el de Pueblo Sin Fronteras, se analizan los discursos y acciones de las autoridades mexicanas que criminalizan a esta organización de la sociedad civil. Prestamos especial atención al uso del delito del tráfico de personas para hostigar y perseguir penalmente a los defensores de migrantes y construir una narrativa en su contra, esto es, a su coyotización práctica y discursiva.
Abstract . The objective of this work is to analyze the criminalization of the defenders of migrants in Mexico that has occurred simultaneously to the phenomenon of migrant caravans. Through a case study, that of Pueblo Sin Fronteras, we analyze the speeches and actions of the Mexican authorities that criminalize this civil society organization. We pay special attention to the use of the human smuggling crime to harass and prosecute migrant defenders and build a narrative against them, that is, their practical and discursive coyotization.
UNDER ATTACK BUT FIGHTING BACK Leao, Débora; Barreto, Marianna Belalba
Sur : international journal on human rights,
08/2020, Volume:
17, Issue:
30
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
Open access
2019 was a year of collective action, and although the repression of civic space activism continues to rise, human rights defenders, activists, and civil society continue to operate, adapt, and ...resist. There are many success stories of human rights defenders who continue their work despite mounting restrictions, and it is important to recognise, celebrate, and learn from those stories and to work to bring these narratives to the surface of public attention to inspire us all. This article will look at a few cases of valuable achievements resulting from defenders' work. In addition, the article will provide an overview of key restrictions and trends and what they can tell us about how civic space affects human rights defenders around the world and particularly in the Americas through the lens of the data collected over the course of 2019 by the CIVICUS Monitor.
Between 2005 and 2013, the Russian State Duma passed legislation restricting the activity of human rights defenders (HRDs). Although these measures complicate their work, this study contends that ...Russian HRDs creatively manage constraints. Through an interview study, this article contributes to the literature on human rights defence in dangerous circumstances by identifying the coping practices of two groups of HRDs: opposition youth activists in Moscow and human rights lawyers in the Northern Caucasus. Here, we argue that those activists at high risk often reinvent their tactics to counter curtailing legislation, experiment with the boundaries of police violence and manage the fear of fellow activists.
The surrendered Agüero, José Carlos; Lazzara, Michael J; Walker, Charles F ...
2021, 20210305, 2021-01-11
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When Peruvian public intellectual José Carlos Agüero was a child, the government imprisoned and executed his parents, who were members of Shining Path. In The Surrendered—originally published in ...Spanish in 2015 and appearing here in English for the first time—Agüero reflects on his parents' militancy and the violence and aftermath of Peru's internal armed conflict. He examines his parents' radicalization, their lives as guerrillas, and his tumultuous childhood, which was spent in fear of being captured or killed, while grappling with the complexities of public memory, ethics and responsibility, human rights, and reconciliation. Much more than a memoir, The Surrendered is a disarming and moving consideration of what forgiveness and justice might mean in the face of hate. This edition includes an editors' introduction, a timeline of the Peruvian conflict, and an extensive interview with the author.
This policy and practice note outlines the experience and knowledge acquired by the Mesoamerican Initiative of Women Human Rights Defenders (referred to in Spanish as IM–Defensoras) during its two ...years of building solidarity, protection and self-care networks among women human rights defenders (WHRDs) in Mesoamerica. It provides a regional context for the contributions made by WHRDs to the promotion of human and community rights; describes WHRD experiences of violence and rights violations; and outlines the history, characteristics and strategies of IM–Defensoras. The paper concludes by noting key achievements and identifying ongoing challenges for IM–Defensoras, namely the need to develop safe spaces that allow women to defend human rights, develop responses that address the specific protection needs of WHRDs, and redefine existing protection and security strategies within a feminist framework.
Es indudable que el trabajo de los defensores de derechos humanos en Colombia ha sido piedra angular para promover la protección a los derechos humanos y convencionales de las comunidades que, por ...una u otra razón, se han visto vulneradas; por este motivo, es fundamental que el Estado tenga la capacidad para proteger su actividad y garantizar que cualquier persona que pretenda atacar a quienes promueven los derechos humanos sea inmediatamente reducido y, de igual forma, el defensor sea cobijado por el manto institucional en relación con las garantías constitucionales, internacionales y convencionales. Se vuelve prioritario puntualizar cuáles son las medidas de protección que cubren a los defensores de derechos humanos en Colombia y evidenciar la realidad que viven en ejercicio de sus actividades.
The Privacy Advocates Bennett, Colin J
2010, 20100813, 20080829, 2008, 2010-08-13, 2019-06-20
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Today, personal information is captured, processed, and disseminated in a bewildering variety of ways, and through increasingly sophisticated, miniaturized, and distributed technologies: identity ...cards, biometrics, video surveillance, the use of cookies and spyware by Web sites, data mining and profiling, and many others. In The Privacy Advocates, Colin Bennett analyzes the people and groups around the world who have risen to challenge the most intrusive surveillance practices by both government and corporations. Bennett describes a network of self-identified privacy advocates who have emerged from civil society--without official sanction and with few resources, but surprisingly influential. A number of high-profile conflicts in recent years have brought this international advocacy movement more sharply into focus. Bennett is the first to examine privacy and surveillance not from a legal, political, or technical perspective but from the viewpoint of these independent activists who have found creative ways to affect policy and practice. Drawing on extensive interviews with key informants in the movement, he examines how they frame the issue and how they organize, who they are and what strategies they use. He also presents a series of case studies that illustrate how effective their efforts have been, including conflicts over key-escrow encryption (which allows the government to read encrypted messages), online advertising through third-party cookies that track users across different Web sites, and online authentication mechanisms such as the short-lived Microsoft Passport. Finally, Bennett considers how the loose coalitions of the privacy network could develop into a more cohesive international social movement.
From 1950 to 1980, activists in the black freedom and women's liberation movements mounted significant campaigns in response to the injustices of rape. These activists challenged the dominant legal ...and social discourses of the day and redefined the political agenda on sexual violence for over three decades. How activists framed sexual violence--as either racial injustice, gender injustice, or both--was based in their respective frameworks of oppression. The dominant discourse of the black freedom movement constructed rape primarily as the product of racism and white supremacy, whereas the dominant discourse of women's liberation constructed rape as the result of sexism and male supremacy. InThe Injustices of Rape, Catherine O. Jacquet is the first to examine these two movement responses together, explaining when and why they were in conflict, when and why they converged, and how activists both upheld and challenged them. Throughout, she uses the history of antirape activism to reveal the difficulty of challenging deeply ingrained racist and sexist ideologies, the unevenness of reform, and the necessity of an intersectional analysis to combat social injustice.
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