THE BLOG OF THE FIIAPP. Spanish cooperation
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Olga Montúfar, president of the Fundación Paso a Paso and of the Global Network of Indigenous Persons with Disabilities, talks to us about her experience as an advocate for the rights of indigenous persons with disabilities
Olga Montúfar following a meeting of the United Nations High Commission on Human RightsOlga was born 38 years ago in Mexico in the heart of the indigenous community of San Miguel Totolapan in the state of Guerrero. Polio left her with a motor disability that prevents her from walking. An engineer by training, the difficulties she had to f...
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The ACTUE-Colombia project seeks to strengthen transparency and integrity in the Colombian public and privates sectors and in civil society
Colombia drags behind it the tragic figure of 218 thousand deaths and nearly six million displaced persons, all attributable to an armed conflict that lasted for over fifty years. A conflict that as...
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Helen Pardo reflects on the migratory phenomenon and tells us about the difficulties being faced in Niger, one of the centres of operation for human trafficking networks
We are talking more and more about migration, but we don't always have the necessary information that would allow us to understand the root causes that lead a group of people to voluntarily or forcibly change cities or countries; but if we think about it, forced migration and human trafficki...
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The Secretary-General of the Ministry of Justice of Morocco talks to us about democratic progress following enactment of the new constitution
Abdelilah Lahkim Bennani, Secretary-General of the Ministry of Justice of MoroccoIn 2011 Morocco approved by referendum a new constitution which proposes a set of reforms aimed at modernising the state. The main reforms contemplated in the constitution include a reduct...
