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Publicación Fraught with Pain: Access to Palliative Care and Treatment for Heroin Use Disorder in ColombiaIsabel Pereira-Arana; Lucía Ramírez BolívarThis books seeks to facilitate linkages between discussions on the right to health and discussions on drug policy reform. The populations we talk about here are the noes most in need of a change whereby drug culture measures cease to stand in the way of a life free from pain. The suffering and pain experienced by people with terminal illnesses and people with heroin use disorder can be alleviated through opioids. At the same time, the enforcement of international drug control treaties means that these medicines are subjected to strict controls that create excessive red tape and contribute to generalized fear among patients and health professionals concerning these medicines’ use. Although many opioids are included in the World Health Organization’s list of essential medicines, the fact that they are controlled substances means that in practice, the right to health of these two populations often is violated. Fraught with Pain offers a diagnosis of five Colombian cities with regard to the barrieres that both populations—patients at the end of life and individuals with heroin use disorder—face when trying to access opioids. The hurdles they encounter can be grouped into four categories: 1. Structural failings of the Colombian health system 2. A lack of institutional capacity to mantain sufficient opioid stocks in small and medium cities 3. A lack of specialized training among health professionals in small and medium cities on the issues of palliative care and psychoactive substance use disorders 4. Stigma surrounding opioids and the people who use them Analyzing the enjoyment of the right to health among these two groups of people would seem ill advised, for what could they and the health care they receive possibly have in common? However, this book argues that someone facing the end of life and someone with a heroin use disorder actually face similar challenges: they are both in need of the same controlled substances; they both require interdisciplinary treatment that extendes beyond opioids; they both seek health services during moments of extreme vulnerability; and they are both often treated negligently by health systems that are ill equipped to handle death and drug dependence. Fraught with Pain seeks to facilitate linkages between discussions on the right to health and discussions on drug policy reform. The populations we talk about here are the noes most in need of a change whereby drug culture measures cease to stand in the way of a life free from pain. Descripción tomada de: https://www.dejusticia.org/en/publication/fraught-with-pain-access-to-palliative-care-and-treatment-for-heroin-use-disorder-in-colombia/Publicación Sarayaku before the Inter-American Human Rights System: Justice For the People of the Zenith and their Living ForestMario Melo CevallosHow was it possible for an indigenous people in the middle of the Amazon to protect their life and territory from oil exploitation? What was the response of the Government of Ecuador to the claims of the Sarayaku people? How is a human rights strategy developed at different geographical levels? In this text, Mario Melo Cevallos, lawyer of the Kichwa people of Sarayaku, addresses these questions by presenting his version of the history of resistance and mobilization of the indigenous people before the State plans to exploit the oil that was in the heart of the Amazon. From the jungle, through the national courts, to the inter-American human rights system, the author shows the different sources of political and legal mobilization used by the people. Based on the work of more than a decade that Melo has done with the descendants of the jaguar, the book combines anecdotal references with judicial decisions and social mobilizations to show the story behind one of the most important sentences of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. Undoubtedly, the case of the Sarayaku people is a symbol for the other indigenous peoples of the Global South. Your experience, we hope, will serve as an example for all indigenous peoples who mobilize against the expansion of the extractive border over their territories. Descripción tomada de: https://www.dejusticia.org/publication/the-sarayaku-and-the-inter-american-system-on-human-rights-justice-for-the-medio-dia-people-and-their-living-jungle/Publicación Accountability of Google and other businesses in Colombia: The protection of personal data in the digital ageVivian Newman-Pont; María Paula Ángel ArangoIn this document we analyze the privacy policies of 30 companies with data-driven business models that collect data in Colombia and identify practices that have not been sufficiently contemplated by the personal data protection regime currently applicable in our country. But what has been done in Colombia to guarantee these rights in the digital economy framework? In this document, we explore the degree of preparedness of our legal personal data protection regime and data protection authorities for tackling the risks that the digital era poses to different values and rights, thereby holding accountable the companies with data-driven business models (DDBM). From the review of their privacy policies, we analyze the modus operandi of an illustrative sample of 30 DDBM, among which are included—for their economic, technological, and social power—the so-called GAFAM (Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, and Microsoft). After this analysis, we identify several practices that have not been sufficiently contemplated by the personal data protection regime currently applicable in Colombia, and whose regulation, in comparison with the European GDPR and the CCPA of California, has significant room for improvement. Likewise, we identify several shortcomings in the capacities of the Colombian data protection authorities in holding the DDBM accountable and therefore, propose some corrective measures. Descripción tomada y adaptada de: https://www.dejusticia.org/publication/accountability-of-google-and-other-data-driven-business-models-data-protection-in-the-digital-age/