EUROsociAL+: Programme for Social Cohesion in Latin America

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08/09/2022 Madrid hosts looks at social cohesion from 32 Latin American and European countries

The photographic exhibition Miradas Cruzadas can be visited from today until 22 September in the exhibition hall of Factoría de Arte y Desarrollo...

23/03/2022 Public policies to strengthen Paraguay’s National Care System

The Ministry of Women's Affairs of Paraguay promotes the seminar "Towards a National Care System" with the support of the EUROsociAL+ and Support for...

28/02/2022 Latin America and Europe, two continents united for gender equality

On 3 and 4 March, Paris is hosting a meeting organised by EUROsociAL+ where European and Latin American representatives will address advances toward...

14/02/2022 Peru strengthens public integrity through a Guide to Ethical Dilemmas

The guide, with 78 potential cases, contains tools and guidelines for action in ethically challenging situations in cases of corruption in the public...

14/10/2021 The FIIAPP participates in the 1st Urban Forum of Spain

The FIIAPP has presented the eefforts of the EUROsociAL+ and EUROCLIMA+ programmes in accompanying national urban policies in Latin America...

10/09/2021 The EU supports the formation of the Economic and Social Council of Costa Rica

The president of Costa Rica, Carlos Alvarado, has presided over the establishment of this social dialogue event for Costa Rica...

09/09/2021 FIIAPP participates in a forum on climate change and gender

The Regional Meeting on Climate Change and Gender Equality organised by COP25 was supported by EUROCLIMA+ and EUROsociAL+...

28/07/2021 Latin American prosecutors fight trafficking-related corruption

In association with EUROsociAL+ and AIAMP, FIIAPP launches a campaign to make the corruption that conceals or facilitates trafficking more visible,...

17/03/2021 Transparency and access to information in times of COVID

EUROsociAL+ presents a study that analyses the incidence of COVID-19 on the right of access to public information in Latin America...

12/03/2021 Social cohesion in post-COVID19 recovery agendas

Latin America and Europe discuss the challenges of social cohesion in post-COVID19 recovery and reactivation plans...

19/01/2021 The European Union accompanies Chile in its constitutional process

FIIAPP supports this process through the European EUROsociAL+ programme, which works together with Chile to accompany the country in preparing its...

28/12/2020 The Public Defenders of Latin America improve protection for refugees and migrants

EUROsociAL+ promotes a comprehensive response to guarantee protection for refugees and migrants in Latin...

02/12/2020 COVID exacerbates poverty and inequality in Central America

European cooperation, through EUROsociAL+, supports the recovery, social reconstruction and resilience of the SICA...

20/11/2020 Fiscal policies for the recovery in Latin America and the Caribbean

The EUROsociAL + programme participated in the "Public finance for development - public income in the COVID-19 context" laboratory organised by the...

15/10/2020 Honduran local governments promote transparency

A new management model is presented to improve transparency indices in Honduran municipalities...

30/09/2020 Access to justice for migrants is reinforced in Chile

EUROsociAL+ has presented a protocol to judges that includes mechanisms to guarantee access to justice for migrants in...

26/08/2020 Another negative effect of COVID 19: the increase in gender inequality

The publication “COVID-19 in the lives of women: A Global Care Emergency” analyses the effects of the pandemic and proposes...

31/07/2020 Argentina and the European Union join forces for social cohesion and equality in the country

EUROsociAL+ has held another Country Dialogue round table in Argentina where inequality gaps in Latin America have been...

03/07/2020 Launch of the Congreso2030py platform for legislative monitoring of the SDGs in Paraguay

The initiative, a pioneer in Latin America, has been developed by the European Union through EUROsociAL+ to locate parliamentary...

29/06/2020 Recovering from the pandemic implies an inclusive perspective with regard to people with disabilities

The Global Disability Action Network (GLAD) has hosted a high-level virtual encounter on disability and...

03/06/2020 Alternative measures to prison: essential for cooperation

The European Union regional programmes, EL PAcCTO EUROsociAL+ and COPOLAD II, analyse alternative measures to prison in times of COVID19...

05/06/2020 European cooperation joins forces for inclusive public policies in Latin America

Bridging the Gap, EUROsociAL+ and SOCIEUX + exchange their work experiences on the inclusion of people with disabilities in Latin...

12/05/2020 Fiscal policies to combat the consequences of the coronavirus

EUROsociAL+ and SISCA have organised a series of web forums to address the fiscal dimension in the context of the pandemic...

07/05/2020 The impact of COVID-19 on slums

EUROsociAL + organised an online seminar on the impact of COVID-19 on slums and social housing in Central America and the Dominican...

22/04/2020 International best practices for fighting corruption in Latin America

The European EUROsociAL+ programme has produced an audio-visual guide with the best experiences and practices to fight against corruption in Latin...

15/04/2019 EUROsociAL+ helps to draft an Access to Public Information law for Latin America

The project supports the development of the Proposed Inter-American Model Law on Access to Public Information...

08/04/2020 Online forum on social protection and COVID in the SICA region

EUROsociaAL+ and SISCA create a space for exchanging the experiences of Central American governments in the face of the crisis caused by the COVID...

30/03/2020 Chile improves its safeguards in the first hours of detention

The European EUROsociAL + programme accompanies the Chilean Criminal Ombudsman in improving safeguards...

10/03/2020 Open parliaments in Latin America to regain citizen confidence

EUROsociAL+ supports the Latin American Congresses in their work to improve trans-parency and attention to citizen's needs...

24/02/2020 EUROsociAL+, supporting the rights of migrants in Latin America

The programme develops 14 lines of work to support public policies on the migrant population at the regional and national level...

29/11/2019 Administrative justice and judicial review under discussion in Spain

A Ghanaian delegation has visited Spain with the aim of obtaining the best practices that can be applied in the reality of each country on...

18/11/2019 EUROsociAL + and EL PAcCTO participate in the XXVII General Assembly of the AIAMP

The XXVII General Assembly of the Ibero-American Association of Public Prosecutors (AIAMP), held in Asunción, Paraguay is committed to the creation...

24/04/2017 Public officials and international experts analyse corruption in Colombia

The Semana Forum for analysing corruption in Colombia was held with the collaboration of the European Union through...

07/10/2013 United against corruption

The FIIAPP and EUROSOCIAL are strategic allies in the Colombian government’s plan to fight...

02/02/2022 New system to deal with cases of prison violence in Costa Rica 

European and Costa Rican authorities have met to launch the system, also implemented in Argentina and...

20/05/2014 Presentation of anti-corruption studies

The FIIAPP presented three publications on the progress in the fight against corruption in Latin America at the Centre for Political and...

22/10/2014 EUROsociAL is promoting personal data protection in El Salvador

The FIIAPP and the CEDDET Foundation organized an international workshop on protection of personal data in El Salvador in...

12/02/2015 Colombian companies join the fight against corruption

With the support of EUROsociAL, Colombia's Secretariat of Transparency promotes the creation of a registry of “Private companies active in...

Videos

FIIAPP videos: #BetterTogether
20/09/2019

FIIAPP videos: #BetterTogether

We value the collaborative work carried out by Bridging the Gap, EUROsociAL+ and EVALUA: combined...

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Another perspective: the Uitoto indigenous people
09/08/2019

Another perspective: the Uitoto indigenous people

We are commemorating the International Day of Indigenous Peoples with the story of Fany Kuiru...

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Blog

07/04/2022 About the human and the political in the territory

El territorio donde nace cada persona influye en las oportunidades y en los retos que tendrá que afrontar a lo largo de toda su vida Costa Rica acaba de aprobar una Ley de Desarrollo Regional para reducir las brechas territoriales en el país con...

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12/08/2021 Post-pandemic youth: jobless and the most vulnerable

On the occasion of International Youth Day we highlight the work of Spanish and European...

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22/07/2021 #PublicExpertise: Guaranteeing access to justice in Latin America

We interviewed Joaquín Delgado, a lawyer from the Madrid Provincial Court As a FIIAPP expert, he...

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10/08/2021 # PublicExpertise: based on exchange, not on superiority

We interviewed Fernando Sánchez-Beato, a sociologist at the National Institute of Public...

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06/07/2021 #PublicExpertise: Archivist Beatriz Franco and her experience cooperating with Latin America

We interview Beatriz Franco, an archivist who has worked in Latin America through the EUROsociAL+...

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16/04/2021 “Tax evasion is not only a cash issue but also an equity issue”

The expert Fernando Peláez Longinotti, Head of the Economic-Tax Studies Area with the Uruguayan...

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18/03/2021 For reconstruction policies that leave no one behind

Climate change has put three out of every ten households in Central America and the Caribbean at...

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19/02/2021 Community justice for greater social justice

Democratising access to justice through community mediation is crucial to achieving greater social...

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14/01/2021 “Exceptional times call for exceptional measures”

We interview Fernando de la Cruz, democratic governance expert with the EUROsociAL+ programme at...

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17/12/2020 The value of numbers in moving towards inclusive justice

María Luisa Domínguez, Senior Technician in the Democratic Governance Area, head of Inclusive...

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25/11/2020 ‘Violence against women is not something some group made up’

The 25 of November is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women At the...

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05/11/2020 Access to public information in Latin America and the Caribbean

The recently approved Inter-American Model Law 20 of the Organization of American States marks a...

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21/07/2020 Criminal defence in police stations, a lesson learned from the “social outcry” in Chile

In this post, Chilean National Defender, Andrés Mahnke, talks about the progress made in Chile's...

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25/06/2020 “The global challenge is clear: the widening in the gender gap is a reality”

Icíar Bosch, Jimena Cazzaniga and Ana Cirujano, FIIAPP colleagues who are also part of the...

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11/06/2020 COVID-19 and the prison system in Latin America

Iñaki Rivera y Alejandro Forero, del Observatorio del Sistema Penal y Derechos Humanos de la...

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30/04/2020 WEAVING THE FUTURE TOGETHER

Shedy Plaza, from the Eurosocial+ programme, shares her thoughts with us during confinement A text...

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05/03/2020 Gender approach in cooperation projects

The FIIAPP manages projects that work with gender approaches and promote the fight against the...

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13/02/2020 Strengthening cross-border governance: Peace border

Bárbara Gómez, a democratic governance agent of the EUROsociAL+ programme gives us her vision on...

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02/01/2020 Vulnerability, corruption and human trafficking, links in the same criminal chain

EUROsociAL+ and the Ibero-American Association of Public Prosecutor's Offices (AIAMP) are promoting...

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19/09/2019 COPOLAD, EL PAcCTO, EUROsociAL+ and the value of joint work in Latin America and the Caribbean

These projects, financed by the European Union and in whose management the FIIAPP participates,...

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29/08/2019 EUROsociAL+ and the case of Lorenza Cayuhan

The project addresses access to justice for people in vulnerable situations This documentary video...

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18/07/2019 Breaking barriers: how to bring taxation closer to the most vulnerable groups in Latin America

Borja Díaz Rivillas, technician from the EUROsociAL+ programme, recounts the experience of Sergio...

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Radio

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06/10/2021

Prosecutors against corruption and human trafficking

Corruption is the not-so-visible flip side of human trafficking and smuggling. We talk about the work of FIIAPP, with EUROsociAL+, with the prosecution services to end the corruption that conceals trafficking.  

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16/12/2020

The EUROsociAL+ programme in the Dominican Republic

The Dominican Republic has joined the European cooperation programme EUROsociAL+, becoming its first member country in the Caribbean. With this inclusion, the programme will work to fight against inequality, reinforce social cohesion and gender equality in the country.

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29/11/2019

Alternative measures to imprisonment in Latin America

This programme addresses the problem of the prison system in Latin America and the work of three projects, funded by the European Union, in whose management FIIAPP participates, namely: EUROsociAL+, EL PAcCTO and COPOLAD.