Posts by Dejusticia
Dictatorship in Peru: Silencing the People’s Voice
Since the coup d’état against President Castillo, the Executive lost the confidence of broad social sectors, which felt that their will expressed at the polls had been violated.
Read MoreUnderstanding Democratic Decline
What explains the rise of these authoritarian populisms? There are no easy answers to that question because this evolution responds to multiple factors.
Read MoreDemocracies in Crisis Bring Challenges for Civil Society
In this newsletter we show how the current decline of democracies goes hand in hand with strategies to weaken civil society. On the other hand, this double crisis can offer the human rights movement an opportunity to rethink and transform ourselves.
Read MoreAre we moving forward or backward? The global debate on drugs at CND68
Drug policy remains at a permanent crossroads. CND68 will determine whether we move towards a human rights and public health approach or remain in prohibitionism. Colombia hopes to maintain its global leadership and push for reform of the system.
Read MoreThe right to protest under threat: the situation in Peru
Peru faces a fractured democracy: violent repression, criminalization of protests, and exclusion of indigenous communities expose historical wounds. The political and social crisis demands justice and urgent structural change.
Read MoreThe right to protest under threat: the situation in Peru
Peru faces a fractured democracy: violent repression, criminalization of protests, and exclusion of rural and indigenous communities. The political and social crisis demands justice and urgent structural change to settle the historical debts owed to vulnerable populations.
Read MoreThe search for the disappeared: similar paths miles away
An empty plate speaks louder than words. In Colombia, Timor-Leste, and Indonesia, families refuse to forget their disappeared loved ones, confronting bureaucratic obstacles, institutional failures, and silence, demanding truth, justice, and the answers they are owed.
Read MoreStraddling borders: a journey of indigenous identity and sovereignty
The 21st century continues to portray Indigenous peoples as “a thing of the past,” as a people “dominated by the Europeans, civilized by them, or dead by their hatred,” making the impacts of Indigenous genocide clearly persist today.
Read MoreIndigenous peoples in cross-border mobility. An unknown phenomenon that deserves attention.
The lack of agreements between Colombia and neighboring countries for the granting of bi-nationality, as well as the practical impossibility of access to nationality by naturalization, due to the impossibility of meeting requirements for members of cross-border indigenous peoples
Read MoreNew Book Collating Nutrition Labeling Experiences in Latin America Launched
This book explores the role of nutrition labeling in combating obesity and non-communicable diseases in Latin America. Activists and researchers share lessons learned, emphasizing collaboration between civil society and academia to advance public health reforms.
Read MoreTaxes on soft drinks in the Americas: trend or necessity
More than a trend, the increasing number of countries implementing a tax on soft drinks shows that this kind of fiscal measure is a cost-efficient policy to tackle the obesity epidemic in the Americas.
Read MoreThe justice needs of the world
States need to know the legal needs of their populations and the ways in which citizens act to manage and resolve those needs in order to design better schemes for the resolution of disputes and for providing access to justice.
Read MoreGoing Beyond Nature
What does granting rights to nature really mean? How can the rights of nature be materialized? Which rights? Where does this recognition leave the communities that have traditionally inhabited and helped to conserve certain areas?
Read MoreJuan Pedro Lares: The freed prisoner that never was
Juan Pedro Lares, a 24-year old Colombian-Venezuelan young man, who was abducted by a hundred civilian-dressed members of the Venezuelan Intelligence, the National Guard, the police, and armed civilian groups from his family’s home in July of last year was finally set free . But a feeling of injustice still lingers.
Read MoreVenezuela in a spiral
El Helicoide gets its name from the geometric shape of the building that houses the prison, which resembles a spiral. The crisis in the prison and the elections this Sunday could worsen the spiral of Maduro’s regime towards arbitrariness.
Read MoreA cure to end homicides
Examples from initiatives across Mexico, Colombia and South Africa shed some light on policies that could help reduce the homicide rate across the Global South. Inclusive and holistic policies that include a wide range of societal actors may offer remedies to tackle this crisis.
Read MoreIndigenous Sovereignty and the Wars on Drugs in the Americas
As drug policy reform takes on new meaning and energy across the hemisphere, let us also remember the historic indigenous effort to retain sovereignty over territory and sustain communities, now challenged by both drugs and the wars against them.
Read MoreThe needles revolution: reducing damages while protecting the health of drug users
Offering new needles to drug users – no matter how controversial it could be – is increasingly urgent in order to protect the health and rights of these populations.
Read MoreIncreasing Accountability
All Colombian society, especially economic actors who had no connection to the conflict, in an effort to go beyond political differences and as a gesture of solidarity towards the victims, should commit themselves to claim and promote victims’ rights without restrictions.
Read MoreWhy (don’t) we sleep?
Bad sleep is the great blind spot of public and private health. The damage from sleeping less than seven hours a day on a regular basis is equivalent to the damage from excessive smoking or drinking.
Read MoreJustice Mosaics: How Context Shapes Transitional Justice in Fractured Societies
Two of our researchers contribute a chapter to a book by the International Center for Transitional Justice.
Read MorePeace, everyone’s business! Corporate accountability in transitional justice: lessons for Colombia
The report includes a comparative study of eight countries (Argentina, Brazil, South Africa, Guatemala, East Timor, Sierra Leone and Liberia) that used transitional justice to judge crimes by corporate actors during armed conflicts.
Read MoreTransitional justice and action without harm: a reflection on the land restitution process
This document compiles the reflections made in recent years by the Transitional Justice team of Dejusticia and the Action without Harm team of the National University of Colombia.
Read MoreReimagining Human Rights
Our Director, César Rodríguez, published the article “Reimagining Human Rights” in the Journal of International Law and International Affairs.
Read MoreSocial Rights Judgments and the Politics of Compliance: Making it Stick (Cambridge University Press)
The book “Social Rights Judgments and the Politics of Compliance”, edited by César Rodríguez Garavito, director of Dejusticia, Malcolm Langford (Univ. Oslo) and Julieta Rossi (Univ. Lanús) was just published.
Read MoreAccess to intelligence and counterintelligence archives in the framework of the post-agreement
In this text, we offer options so that transitional justice mechanisms and society at large can have access to intelligence and counterintelligence archives, which relate to the armed conflict in Colombia.
Read MoreEnvironmental peace: challenges and proposals for the post-accord
Through the Ideas for Peacebuilding collection, Dejusticia seeks to contribute to this task through thematic documents that offer diagnoses and proposals on some of the central institutional challenges of this new stage. In this book, we analyze the impact of the conflict on the environment and the challenges that arise in the peacebuilding stage.
Read MoreNegotiating from the margins: The political participation of women in the peace processes of Colombia (1982-2016)
This book offers analyses and recommendations regarding the participation of women in peace processes so that peace agreements can become long-term social pacts that are both inclusive and committed to justice and equality.
Read MorePeace territories: the construction of the local state in Colombia
This book offers diagnoses and proposals surrounding one key challenge of peace building: carrying out out a large national state-building project on the periphery of the country.
Read MorePersons Deprived of Liberty for Drug Offenses
The research of the Collective on Persons Detained, Processed and Imprisoned presents statistical information about detention and imprisonment for drug offenses in Latin America and advocates for an overhaul of drug laws and their implementation in Latin America. — La evidencia existente muestra que, a nivel mundial, la política de drogas ha implicado diversos costos…
Read MoreSome Regulations of the New Nacional Development Plan Violate the Protection of Paramos, Citizen Participation, and Land Restitution
We intervened in new litigation arguing the inconstitutionality of some of the articles of the new National Development Plan 2014-2018.
Read MoreWhy are Victims of Forced and Illicit Recruitment De-Linked from Post-Demobilization Groups Have the Right to the CODA Certificate to Access Reintegration Programs?
We intervened before the Constitutional Court in a lawsuit arguing the inconstitutionality of Article 190 of the Law 1448 of 2011. This law states that victims of forced and illicit recruitment de-linked from post-demobilization groups and that are legal adults have to obtain a certificate from the Operating Committe for the Surrender of Arms (CODA) in order to gain access to reintegration programs.
Read MoreCan a Criminal Law Judge Suspend a Land Restitution Process?
We intervened before the Constitutional Court in a writ of constitutional protection case, in which a criminal law judge ordered, as a precautionary measure, to suspend a land restitution process. The criminal case investigated the alleged procedural fraud in the land restitution process by the plaintiffs. According to the litigants (who act as defendants in the land restitution case), the restitution plaintiffs committed procedural fraud by arguing that the seeling of the land in question constitutes legal displacement.
Read MoreIntervention before the Constitutional Court in the Writ of Constitutional Protection Revision Process that Demands Protection of the Arauco Indigenous Community
We intervened in the writ of constitutional protection instated by Mission Colombia Foundation in representation of the Arhuaco indigenous community due to the harms caused by the construction of a military base and more than 480 communication antenas and facts regarding this community’s ancestral territory.
Read MoreAmicus Curiae in Favor of the Right to Prior Consultation of Mayan Communities in Mexico
This amicus curiae seeks to support the actions of the Mayan communities from Pach-Chan and Canabchen to ask that their right to prior consultation be respected in the case against Monsanto’s genetically modified soy crops.
Read MoreRodrigo Uprimny’s Intervention before the Inter-American Court
See the recording of the public hearing regarding the case against Colombia due to discrimination based on sexual orientation.
Read MoreDejusticia Supported Public Hearing Request by Indigenous Organizations in Constitutional Court regarding Decree that Regulates Indigenous Territories
This past September 11th, Dejusticia presented before the Constitutional Court a request for it to hold a public hearing regarding the case of the decree that regulated indigenous territories (Decree 1953 of 2014).
Read MoreDejusticia Intervenes in Favor of an Activist that Defended the Sawhoya Community in Paraguay
The International Network for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ESCR-Net) and Dejusticia presented an intervention in favor of the lawyer Julia Cabello, executive coordinator of Tierraviva, who was sued by the Minister Gladys Bareiro de Módica.
Read MoreInterventions at Marriage Equality Public Hearing
By Colombia Diversa and Dejusticia’s request, the Constitutional Court ordered a public hearing on July 30th, 2015, regarding the cases of constitutional writ of protection petitions from same-sex couples in review by that Court.
Read MoreDejusticia Intervenes in Lawsuit Against Adoption Laws That Discriminate Against Differently Mentally Abled People
We intervened in a lawsuit arguing the unconstitutionality of the text “also when inflicted with a mental illness” of the 66th article of the Infant and Adolescent Code that regulates parent’s consent to give up their child for adoption.
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