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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We need an open government in times of pandemic
From the Argentine Open Government Civil Society Collective, we request that all levels of the State take special account of transparency, participation and collaboration policies in public decision-making to manage the current crisis. At the…
We send recommendations regarding the possible dilution of the IDB’s socioenvironmental
In the framework of the public consultation process on the review of IDB environmental and social safeguards policies, together with a group of more than 50 civil society organizations in the region, we made comments and observations on…
We make comments and observations on the IDB’s Environmental and Social Policy Framework from a gender perspective
From Fundeps, together with the participation of some international civil society organizations, we sent the IDB a document with comments and observations on the Environmental and Social Policy Framework from a gender perspective.
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Brothers be united? Profiling of the Sino-Argentina relationship in the government of Alberto Fernández
After the Mauricio Macri government will use the acquisition of debt with multilateral credit organizations as the main source of financing for its management, prioritizing the relationship with the International Monetary Fund and the United…
The right to health in times of pandemic
On December 31, 2019, the first cases of COVID-19 were reported in the city of Wuhan, China. On March 11, 2020, the WHO Director-General characterized it as a pandemic, also highlighting the alarming levels of spread and severity of the virus.…
Equal Pay Day: Equal pay for equal work? Same task?
On April 9, the equal pay day between men and women was established in our country. As of today, we have large gender gaps that are far from closing.
“Below, we offer a google translate version of the original article in Spanish. This translation…
