THE BLOG OF THE FIIAPP. Spanish cooperation
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The concept of “social cohesion” is not monolithic but rather lends itself to multiple academic and political interpretations. The main international and European instruments provide an approximation that narrows down its meaning and links it to equal opportunities, welfare and full exercise of citizenship. Understood on the basis on these attributes, social cohesion must necessarily include gender equality.El concepto “cohesión social” no es unívoco, se presta a múltiples interpretaciones académicas y políticas. Los principales instrumentos internacionales y europeos permiten una aproximación que acota su significado y lo liga a la igualdad de oportunidades, al bienestar y al ejercicio pleno de la ciudadanía. Entendida sobre estos atributos, la cohesión social debe incorporar necesariamente la igualdad de género.The concept of “social cohesion” is not monolithic but rather lends itself to multiple academic and political interpretations. The main international and European instruments provide an approximation that narrows down its meaning and links it to equal opportunities, welfare and full exercise of citizenship. Understood on the basis on these attributes, social cohesion must necessarily include gender equality.The concept of “social cohesion” is not monolithic but rather lends itself to multiple academic and political interpretations. The main international and European instruments provide an approximation that narrows down its meaning and links it to equal opportunities, welfare and full exercise of citizenship. Understood on the basis on these attributes, social cohesion must necessarily include gender equality.
Inequality between women and men cuts across societies and is manifested in issues such as the feminization of poverty, gender violence, lower political participation by women, employment and wage inequality, female illiteracy and the difficulty women have gaining access to full sexual a...
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El cultivo del cacao o el café se ha convertido en la alternativa de aquellas personas que subsisten de la plantación y recolección de plantas que contienen estupefacientes. El ‘Desarrollo alternativo’, una opción para cambiar la forma de vida de cientos de familias. Este sistema ya ha atendido a 190.000 en Colombia. The planting of cocoa or coffee has become an alternative for people who subsist by cultivating and harvesting narcotic-containing plants. "Alternative development", an option for changing the way of life of hundreds of families. This system has already helped 190,000 families in Colombia. The planting of cocoa or coffee has become an alternative for people who subsist by cultivating and harvesting narcotic-containing plants. "Alternative development", an option for changing the way of life of hundreds of families. This system has already helped 190,000 families in Colombia. The planting of cocoa or coffee has become an alternative for people who subsist by cultivating and harvesting narcotic-containing plants. "Alternative development", an option for changing the way of life of hundreds of families. This system has already helped 190,000 families in Colombia.
Rural farmers, African-descended, Raizaland indigenous groups. Families belonging to these four communities in Colombia have resorted to illegal cultivation of plants like coca and poppies (from which heroin is derived) as a way of life. The ease of cultivation offered by the zon...
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La Secretaría General de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (SGCID) de España trabaja día a día para rendir cuentas a la ciudadanía. Hablamos sobre ello con Ana Henche, la jefa del Servicio de Estadística de la SGCID. The Spanish General Secretariat of International Development Cooperation (SGCID) works day after day to bring accountability to citizens. We spoke to Ana Henche, head of the SGCID's Statistics Service about this. The Spanish General Secretariat of International Development Cooperation (SGCID) works day after day to bring accountability to citizens. We spoke to Ana Henche, head of the SGCID's Statistics Service about this. The Spanish General Secretariat of International Development Cooperation (SGCID) works day after day to bring accountability to citizens. We spoke to Ana Henche, head of the SGCID's Statistics Service about this.
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Mikel Berraondo is an international expert on human rights and indigenous peoples who in the last two years has been coordinating the interculturality project of justice in Peru within the EUROsociAL programme. We talk to him about progress in linking ordinary justice with the special jurisdiction system of Peru's indigenous populations, which has consolidated a relationship of equality with recognition of intercultural justice.
What is meant by intercultural justice?
Putting into practice international human rights standards that refer to creating a justice system in which ordinary justice coexists with the different levels of indigenous justice present in each country, kno...
