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Julieta Paredes Carvajal is the author of the book Hilando fino desde el feminismo comunitario (2008), in which she delves into notions such as equality between women and men in the context of indigenous culture, her position on Western feminism, colonialism, and neoliberalism, and the role of the body and sexuality in the liberation of women.
Peacebuilding addresses economic, social and political root causes of violence and fosters reconciliation to prevent the return of structural and direct violence. Peacebuilding efforts aim to change beliefs, attitudes and behaviors to transform the short and long term dynamics between individuals and groups toward a more stable, peaceful ...
Law 1-2001, passed on March 1, 2001 created the Oficina del Coordinador General para el Financiamiento Social y la Autogestión (OFSA), with a mission to eradicate poverty in Puerto Rico. With it, "Special Communities" ( Comunidades Especiales de Puerto Rico ) across Puerto Rico were to be identified and then residents' voices were to be ...
A community is a social unit (a group of people) with a shared socially-significant characteristic, such as place, set of norms, culture, religion, values, customs, or identity.
LA CASA DE LA PAZ ("PEACE HOME")- is a health care project aimed at children from different countries, affected by serious diseases that have no possibility of treatment in their home countries. [4] HOGAR DE ACOGIDA ("HOME FOR THE SICK")- which works to improve the lives of sick people in Spain without resources, usually affected by rare diseases.
Servicio Paz y Justicia (SERPAJ, Service Peace and Justice) is a Human Rights Non Governmental Organisation in Latin America, founded in 1974.It is a Christian based and nonviolent organization, and is committed for the defense of political prisoners in the different South American dictatorships during the Dirty War in the 1970–80s.
Dejusticia was founded in 2005 in Bogotá, Colombia by Colombian writer and columnist Mauricio García Villegas, Colombian lawyer and professor Helena Alviar García, Colombian professor and jurist Rodrigo Uprimny, the university professor César Rodríguez Garavito, the Colombian lawyer and professor Catalina Botero and the academics Juan Fernando Jaramillo, Danilo Rojas and Diego E. López ...
The visible center of the LGBT community is the Zona Rosa, a series of streets in Colonia Juárez in Mexico City, where over 50 gay bars and dance clubs exist. [1] [2] Surrounding the country's capital, there is a sizable amount in the State of Mexico. [3]