Fundeps Appoints a New Director
Read moreFundeps would like to share an important update for our organization: Luciano Debanne has been appointed as Director of the foundation.
Luciano holds a degree in Social Communication and has extensive experience in community communication, training, and human rights promotion. Throughout his professional career, he…
Civil Society Organizations and Communities Call for Respect for Rights at the IDB Annual Meeting in Asunción
Read moreCivil society organizations from Latin America and the Caribbean will participate this week in the Annual Meeting of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Group, which will take place in Asunción from March 11 to 14. The aim is to raise concerns about the direction of the Bank’s investments and to demand that its…
More than 160 organizations are calling on Formula 1 to end tobacco and nicotine sponsorships
Read moreOn March 4th, more than 160 civil society organizations from around the world sent a letter to Formula 1 urging it to update its ban on tobacco sponsorships to include nicotine pouches and to stop facilitating the promotion of addictive products to its millions of young fans. We also urged other F1 sponsors—Disney, Lego,…
Abortion Access in Córdoba: Progress and Ongoing Challenges in Implementing Law 27.610
Read moreMore than five years after the enactment of Law 27.610, Fundeps presents a provincial report that systematizes progress, barriers, and good practices in access to voluntary and legal abortion in Córdoba. The report provides evidence produced in collaboration with healthcare teams and feminist activists, within a challenging…
More Than Labels: Legal Keys to Defending the Right to Adequate Food
Read moreIn a context of regulatory backsliding that threatens public health policies, Fundeps presents More Than Labels, a collective legal compendium that provides concrete tools to defend the Law on the Promotion of Healthy Eating and to strengthen the human right to adequate food in Argentina.
The Law on the Promotion of Healthy…
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International Day of Peasant Struggle
On April 17, the International Day of Peasant Struggle was celebrated, commemorating the murder of 19 peasants who demanded their access to land and justice in 1966 in El Dorado dos Carajá, Brazil. Crime that still goes unpunished.
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Andrea Repetto Vargas began functions as the new director of the MICI
Andrea Repetto has been appointed by the Executive Board of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) as Director of the Independent Consultation and Investigation Mechanism (MICI) for the period 2021-2026 and began functions on March 16, 2021.
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Citizen participation in check
This Friday, April 9, at 12 noon, the public hearing will begin on the Punilla highway. It will be done through a digital platform and will be broadcast live on YouTube.
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Domestic workers: a fight for their recognition
In Argentina, legislation and public policies on care have made progress but also obstacles. Within the framework of the International Day of Domestic Workers and the 8th anniversary of the enactment of Law 26,844 on the Special Regime of Work…

Argentina seeks to agree with China an investment plan for 30 billion dollars
On the eve of the next trip to China, the Argentine government negotiates infrastructure investment agreements worth close to 30 billion dollars.
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Public procurement in a pandemic: a year of direct contracting and lack of transparency
Today the Red Ruido made its presentation with its first investigation on "Public procurement in a pandemic: 2020, the year of direct contracting and the lack of transparency."
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