Issue-Anti-discrimination
Homophobia without borders
In the 21st century, homophobia shows its worst face in Chechnya. 100 homosexuals have been hunted as animals by the authorities and three of them were killed.
Read MoreGlobal Conversations
In times of an upside down world , achieving global conversations is an urgent challenge. This is suddently a new opportunity to build a global united front for a new world in which other forms of life are included.
Read MoreAgainst the “faggots”
“The faggots come and organize right in front of the Church…because being a faggot is…they are faggots, I am sorry but they are faggots…This is what they are.” These are the words that Pastor Miguel Arrázola used to speak of journalist Lucio Torres.
Read MoreIn the country side, life is much harder for women than for men
The progress made in the Peace Agreement on the recognition of the triple discrimination faced by rural women in Colombia cannot be just words and empty promises.
Read MorePolitical equality and women
On March 8 we celebrated woman’s day, which seeks to eradicate discrimination and gender violence. In the context of this celebration, it may be worth remembering that Colombia could have been a world vanguard in recognizing the political equality of women.
Read MoreThe moon of Ms. María
Moonlight, the winner of the Oscar for best film, and Miss Maria: the skirt of the mountain, the Colombian documentary by Rubén Mendoza, tell two necessary stories to better understand the lives of those who live and feel a sexuality other than the heterosexual one.
Read MorePeace without indigenous or Afro-Colombian people
Through the fast-track in Congress, the implementation of the peace agreement is leaving out ethnic peoples. Long before there was a table in Havana, the peace labs were the territories of the Nasa in Cauca, the Wiwa’s Sierra or the black communities of the Pacific, who refused to take arms or left in the middle of guerrilla and paramilitary violence and state stigmatization.
Read MoreIt’s not Trump, it’s the United States: a history of racism and xenophobia
The idea of nation is beautiful. But I believe, as a US citizen, that as long as fear subsists, the idea will remain just that.
Read MoreA decade of dignity
On February 7th, 2007, the Constitutional Court ended with the legal apartheid against same-sex couples by recognizing their constitutional protection and extending the patrimonial protection under the same conditions as heterosexual couples.
Read MoreIt is time to end Miss Universe
It costs a lot, it is unnecessary and, despite the fact that women are adults, it hides acts of violence against them.
Read MoreMarriage Equality Public Hearing
This July 30th the Constitutional Court held a public hearing to discuss whether or not it should approve marriage equality nationally and not annull the existing marriages between same-sex couples.
Read MoreDejusticia Launches Research Project about Ethnic-Racial Justice in Latin America
Regarding regulations on diversity in the continent and communities’ demands for recognition.
Read MorePrior Consultation Can Prevent Environmental Damage in Colombia and for Humanity: Daniel Cerqueira
Interview with DPLF’s expert that participated in the 25th Anniversary Seminar of the ILO Convention 169 in Bogotá.
Read MoreThe United States Shows that It Is Possible to Build a Path towards Equality
In a pluralist democracy it is discriminatory for a person to be deprived of a right due to their sexual orientation. Today the Supreme Court of the United States legalized same-sex marriage.
Read MoreHow to Change the Box “Sex” on Your Documents: Infographic
Dejusticia, alongside other organizations, intervened before the Court in the case of a trans woman who saw her rights to identity and dignitiy violated by the state not allowing her to change her sex on official documents.
The Constitutional Court ruled in her favor, and the ruling served as a precedent for the Decree 1227 that now allows people to change their sex on official ocuments through a notarized deed.
Read MoreBernstein Institute Annual Conference 2015: Panel 4: Racial and Ethnic Inequalities in Global Perspective
Moderator: Louis Bickford, Program Officer at the Ford Foundation
Panelists:
César Rodríguez Garavito, Director of Global Justice and Human Rights Program at Universidad de los Andes
Gay McDougall, Visiting Professor of Law at Fordham University School of Law
Vincent Warren, Executive Director of the Center for Constitutional Rights
This event took place on April 22, 2015.
Read MoreThe Culture of Compliments and Street Harassment
Giving compliments on the street is not flattering, it is sexual harassment of women on the street.
Read MoreFrom the Ethical to the Ethnic
How did the political class take over the seats reserved for Afro-Colombians in Congress?
Read MoreWhat is Missing from the Separate Spaces for Women
Parting from the assumption that the separate spaces for women on the Transmilenio public transportation system is just a temporary measure that is attempting to mitigate a particular problem, we cannot ask to much of it.
Read MoreSeparate and Unequal: Education and Social Class in Colombia
Elementary and high school students live in two separate and unequal worlds, because the quality of the education they receive is very different. What can we do to close this gap?
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