Posts by Dejusticia
The ABCs of the Social Protest and Human Rights Crisis in Colombia
If you have not yet understood the serious situation in the streets of Colombia since April 28, 2021, we explain three essential aspects of the social mobilization agenda in which violence has been an unfortunate protagonist.
Read MoreProtests in Colombia: 650 civil society organizations call for urgent action from IACHR
Given the fragile institutional situation and the seriousness of human rights violations in Colombia, a group of 650 organizations, including Dejusticia, made a joint call to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) asking to energetically condemn the acts of violence and repression of social protest in Colombia and to visit the country to verify…
Read MoreWe condemn violence and call for respect for the right to protest in Colombia
For the allegations of human rights violations during the current national strike, we call for compliance with the orders issued by the Supreme Court of Justice for these contexts.
Read MoreNew Research Report: “The Defense of Human Rights in Venezuela”
This report is the result of an assessment of the obstacles that civil society organizations are facing, as well as their resistance and resilience in their continued defense of human rights.
Read MorePunitive drug laws: 10 years undermining the Bangkok Rules
A set of 70 rules that seek to adapt world prison systems to the needs and experiences of women deprived of liberty are in risk by the punitive approach of many drug laws.
Read More“Protecting Human Rights on the Ground,” a report on UNHCR country offices
This research is intended to offer tools to the Venezuelan human rights movement, to other civil society organizations, and to States who have an interest in the establishment of a UNHCR office in Venezuela.
Read MoreSupreme Court of Justice protects the right to protest against police violence
The Supreme Court of Justice of Colombia protected the right of all people to demonstrate and the duty of the authorities to “ward off, prevent and punish the systematic, violent and arbitrary intervention of the public force in demonstrations and protests.”
Read MoreREQUIEM FOR JUSTICE: 44 writers, musicians and activists rally against social injustice and oppression amidst Covid-19
28-29-30 August 2020 at 5:00PM GMT, 12:00PM Bogotá – Online
Read MoreColombia must implement the IACHR’s recommendations regarding social leaders, even during the pandemic
In its recent report, the IACHR crucially underscores the importance of recognizing the right to defend rights and the fundamental role of social leaders in Colombia, especially in the current context of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Read MoreWe won the Tang Prize!
Dejusticia, a Colombian think-do-tank with 15 years of history, is one of the three organizations in the world awarded this year with the Tang Prize in the Rule of Law category, and the first Latin American laureate in the history of the Tang Prize. This award, delivered biennially since 2014 by the Academia Sinica (Taiwan),…
Read MoreTwo anniversaries and one conjecture
Five centuries of the Protestant schism and the one hundred years of the communist revolution are celebrated. Will there be revolutions like these in the future? Surely, but they will be very different.
Read MoreThe Independence of Festivities
The Independence Festivities of Cartagena affirm our identity and foster the social fabric. Thus, they must remain separate from the National Beauty Contest that obscured them with its media strength.
Read MoreSoda censorship
The Constitutional Court’s decision leaves us a message for current debates about other forms of censorship that the industry deploys. One particularly worrisome is the use or pressure on the media to not transmit pedagogical messages such as those by Educar Consumidores.
Read MoreJustice in forgotten territories
Justice is a necessary condition to consolidate peace. We owe a coordinated, effective, and efficient state offer of justice to people in forgotten municipalities who have suffered the conflict.
Read MoreFeeling vulnerable
Many men have difficulty understanding the fears that many women experience when facing the threat of harassment. We fail to understand the vulnerability that women feel in situations that men consider safe and banal, such as walking through certain places.
Read MoreIn defense of the small
The gregarious energies of contemporary sapiens are increasingly concentrated in small, self-absorbed and selfish groups.
Read MoreAsbestos and fried potatoes
In Colombia we are late in documenting the industry lobby: their contributions to political campaigns, the pressure on Congress’ members at the time of deliberation and voting. A good start is to keep track of the lobbyists and merchants of the doubt dealing with asbestos and ultra-processed foods.
Read MoreIndependence and judicial management: a democratic reading
The necessary independence of judges has been an argument against some attempts to reform justice. But it is a concept with multiple interpretations, and therefore we must clarify it in order to proceed with the reforms.
Read MoreHurricane Politics
As we assess and reassess Puerto Rico in the wake of the hurricanes – as well as the many crises and hurricanes to come across the globe – we must attend to crisis, and also cannot lose our sense of the structural, the chronic, the organic.
Read MoreSelfish patriotism
The future of humanity could be on the side of cosmopolitanism, not patriotism, which today seems more a form of collective selfishness than popular democracy.
Read MoreLaw and Globalization from Below
This book is an unprecedented effort of analyzing the role of rights within the global social justice movement, combining empirical investigation and innovative socio-legal theories on a variety of themes, from indigenous rights to the World Social Forum and global labor rights campaigns.
Read MoreThe New Left Wing in Latin America
This book is the first attempt at systematic analysis and comparison on the resurgence of left wing in Latin America in recent years.
Read MoreRights and Society in Latin America
In this book, a group of prominent lawyers and social scientists from diverse Latin American countries strike up a dialogue and offer innovative and rigorous answers on these and other questions.
Read MoreFreedom of Press and Fundamental Human Rights: An Analysis of the Constitutional System of Law in Colombia (1992 – 2005)
This book offers an exploration of the collision of freedom of press and human rights. The authors examine the scope of freedom of press in Colombia, asking what law should prevail when freedom of information is faced by needs for confidentiality.
Read MoreBetween ‘el Perdón’ and ‘el Paredón’: International Standards and Transitional processes in Colombia
This chapter gives a detailed recount of international jurisprudence and the limitations that it imposes, as well as the possibilities it offers to the countries in transition.
Read MoreSocial Market Economy and Free Trade Agreements in Colombia
This book tries to create an open plural and interdisciplinary debate about Free Trade Agreements.
Read MoreThe Law of Alternative Criminal and Transitional Justice
p> This text discusses transitional and criminal justice as applied to the demobilization of paramilitaries in the Colombian context.
Read MoreNew Tendencies in the Direction of Judicial Process: Formation Model
This book’s objective is to complete a comprehensive presentation of the role of a judge as “director” or “manager” during the judicial process.
Read MoreComparative Jurisprudence: Reception and Misreading of Transnational Legal Theory in Latin America
One could say that comparative jurisprudence is any kind of work in which international general jurisprudence is broken into pieces to articulate a national, regional, tribal or otherwise group-base experience with rather abstract ideas. This strategy, then, would lead to the juxtaposition of a national, regional or group adjective and the very word “jurisprudence”.
Read MoreThe Symbolic Efficacy of the Law
The book explores the symbolic efficacy of legal norms.
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