Area-Global South & North Collaborations (Internationalization)
Unbearable Heat: Climate Displacement and Hardened Borders in the Americas
Instead of restrictive policies that further endanger people seeking asylum or refuge due to climate change and the violence unleashed by this phenomenon, governments in the Americas must establish pathways for displaced individuals, who often belong to marginalized communities, to find safety.
Read MoreOpen call for Global North fellowships 2024
This opportunity, for the second semester of 2024, allows for the exchange of tools and research-action strategies developed at Dejusticia, as well as the contributions of interns and fellows with their own experiences and those of their organizations.
Read MoreMore than 400 international organizations reject the bill that seeks to stifle Venezuelan NGOs
We request that the bill be dismissed, including its reform or any other regulation that is similar in nature.
Read MoreWhat is happening in Peru? The question of difficult answers
Two months after the self-coup and subsequent dismissal of Pedro Castillo, we take stock of what has happened and what are the possible solutions to the critical moment this country is going through.
Read MoreIs Democracy in Brazil at stake?
Following what some consider a coup attempt on January 8, Brazil’s federal powers are taking action against the far right. Will they be able to act decisively without undermining the institutions they defend?
Read MoreNew Report: Misuse of Technologies in Emergency Responses
Three years after the begin of the Covid-19 pandemic, the ECNL, INCLO, and Privacy International published a report on how states use surveillance technologies to weaken Human Rights within their territories with the excuse of the fight against the virus.
Read MoreAre Human Rights Still Effective?
In 2018, we brought together activists from 11 Global South countries to reflect on the importance of human rights in contexts where their effectiveness has been questioned. Their conclusions were compiled in the book Reimagining the Future 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 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 MoreThe climate momentum has reached BlackRock; now let’s get down to business
BlackRock, the world’s largest fund manager, with investments close to US$7 trillion, officially concluded that climate risk is investment risk and that it will consider how companies are confronting climate change in its investment decisions.
Read MoreRestricting junk food advertising: censorship or health protection?
It is time for Latin America to take on the challenge and decide whether commercial speech needs to be protected over children’s health or whether it can be restricted in order to prevent increasing children’s obesity rates. The recent decision by the Colombian Constitutional Court is a good step forward, but it is not enough.
Read MoreProfessional secrecy in abortion cases: the inhumane dilemma between prison and death
The protection of professional secrecy in abortion cases is a fundamental guarantee for women to exercise their right to terminate a pregnancy. If doctors continue to violate professional secrecy and report on abortion cases, women will continue to be subjected to an inhumane dilemma, having to choose between prison or death.
Read MoreReturning to the colonial space
The international phenomenon of land grabbing, which in its most recent manifestation already ten years old, could be seen as a form of neocolonialism that connects Global South countries around a common problem and resistance.
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 MoreWhat If Colombia Does Not Fulfill Its Promise to the FARC?
Colombia has a unique opportunity to build a future without an armed conflict. However, the statistics are against Colombian success, since 45% of the peace accords signed between 1989 and 2004 failed within the first five years of implementation. Therefore, there should not be additional destabilizing factors such as a breach of agreement.
Read MoreCulture saves lives
It is not enough to say that cultural industries are important because they can generate dividends and jobs. In the end, it is not an exaggeration to say that art and culture can save lives.
Read MoreWorlds apart: Access to essential medicines for pain relief
We need to understand that the person battling addiction is facing an illness that needs public health policies just as much as those facing the end of life. The experience of pain, whether we experience it ourselves or we watch a loved one suffer, should remind us of the fragility of life and the need for compassion and empathy.
Read MoreVenezuela: freedom for Juan Pedro Lares
I want to share a story with those who question the gravity of the breakdown of human rights and democracy in Venezuela.
Read MoreThe fantasies of “homo sapiens”
After having beaten its competitors and almost all other species, today humanity’s main enemy is itself.
Read MoreScorpions in a bottle
President Trump threatened the North Korean president this week with a “fire and fury” attack that, he said, “the world has never seen before.” It is incredible that the stability of the planet is in the hands of such characters. How is it possible that despite so many advances that humanity has had our institutions are in the hands of clumsy and volatile characters?
Read MoreLegal Framework for the Sugary Drinks Tax in Colombia
The document provides a summary on the legal framework for the sugary drinks tax in Colombia
Read MoreICAR and Dejusticia Release Assessment of Colombian National Action Plan
ICAR and Dejusticia are pleased to publish an assessment of the Colombian National Action Plan (NAP) on business and human rights.
Read MoreAlternative report to the United Nations Committee Against Forced Displacement
Dejusticia and five allied organizations presented an alternative report to the United Nations Committee Against Forced Displacement before its 11th Session, which took place on October 3-14, 2016.
Read MorePalliative Care and its Status in Latin America
Dejusticia launched a report on the status of palliative care across eight countries in Latin America.
Read MoreThe Multithematic and Diverse Justice Reform in Latin America
This article deals with reforms to the justice system in various Latin American countries across the 20th century.
Read MoreCriminal Systems for Youth in Latin America
This article analyzes recent reforms on youth criminal systems in Latin American countries.
Read MoreThe OECD and the Downscaling of Labor and Pension Policies: Imagining Alternatives through Decent Work and Rights
This document analyzes the tensions in the OECD’s recommendations in labor and pensions and the legal obligations of the state regarding decent work and international human rights law.
Read MoreFiscal Policy and Human Rights in the Americas: Mobilizing Resources to Guarantee Rights
Report written for the thematic hearing on Fiscal Policy and Human Rights of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR).
Read MoreChallenges to the Inter-American System of Human Rights
This book chronicles how a group of Latin American human rights organizations worked together to develop new strategies monitor the so-called “strengthening process” of the CIDH.
Read MoreRadical Deprivation on Trial
This book by César Rodríguez Garavito and Diana Rodríguez Franco is a fundamental contribution to the study of the most relevant judicial innovations courts have done in the past decade.
Read MoreSupreme Court of Justice sanctions nightclubs of Bogotá due to racial discrimination
Racial Discrimination Watch filed a tutela against the President, Bogotá´s Mayors Office and three night clubs for racial discrimination
Read MoreLawsuit that seeks the protection of the right to housing
Lawsuit against paragraph 1 of article 15 of Law 388 of 1997, and against article 40 of law 3 from 1991, for violating the Constitution.
Read MoreIntervention against the Modificatory Protocol of the Free Trade Agreement between Colombia and the United States
Civic intervention within the process of No. LAT319 of automatic, integral and prior review of the Modification Protocol of the Free Trade Agreement between Colombia and the United States and its enclosed letter, approved via Law 1166 of 2007.
Read MoreIntervention against the Free Trade Agreement between Colombia and the United States
Intervention in the process LAT311 against the Law 1143 from 2007 “by which the Free Trade Agreement between Colombia and the United States of America is approved”, plus the annexed letters and agreements, signed at Washington, DC on November 22, 2006.
Read MoreHealth Care: Afro Descendents
Public action of unconstitutionality of articles 1 through 30 of the Law 691 of 2001, which regulates the participation of ethnic groups in the General System of Social Security, alleging violations of the introduction and of articles 1, 2, 7, 11, 12, 13, 48, 49, 70, 85, 93, 330 (paragraph), 55 transitory of the Political Constitution.
Read MoreSocial Security: Same-Sex Couples
Lawsuit challenging the normas of article 1 of Law 54 of 1990 and articles 47, 74 & 163 of Law 100 of 1993, which restrict social security benefits to heterosexual couples.
Read MoreHealth: Same-Sex Couples
Citizen intervention in challenge to the constitutionality of Law 100 of 1993, which limits health benefits to heterosexual couples.
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