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Everything You Need to Know About the Colombian Peace Process
César Rodríguez Garavito, Executive Director of Dejusticia, gives a crash course on these complex aspects of the Colombian transition to peace in this talk at the American University of Beirut sponsored by The Legal Agenda and Issam Fares Institute.
Read MoreDejusticia will defend right to health and information in hearing on draft law to regulate labeling of ultraprocessed products
On September 18 at 2 pm, there will be a public hearing in Congress on the Bill 019 of 2017, which seeks to enable consumers to make better decisions about their food health when making purchases.
Read MoreWe call for immediate action to address the judicial crisis
The Center for the Study of the Law, Justice and Society (Dejusticia) and the Excellence in Justice Corporation (CEJ), call on the high courts and the Attorney General to take immediate measures of transparency to face corruption and restore public confidence in the judiciary.
Read MoreMurat Çelikkan: When dissent becomes crime
This weekend he was supposed to come to Colombia, to a forum on human rights in Cali. Today the Turkish activist is in jail for being editor of an opposition newspaper.
Read MoreCrisis in Venezuela: Why isn’t this just another protest?
Dejusticia invited two human right defenders of the NGO Provea (Venezuelan Education-Action Program on Human Rights) to visit Colombia and explain in detail the current profound political and social crisis that the neighboring country faces.
Read MoreNo one responds to racial discrimination at work in Colombia
The Constitutional Court is about to end the legal struggle that Jonh Jak Becerra undertook six years ago, after being a victim of racial discrimination at work. Dejusticia and Cimarrón intervened before the Court, calling for the protection of the rights to equality, non-discrimination, decent work and due process.
Read MoreWe have a new scientific panel supporting our work: social sciences need natural sciences
The idea of this panel is to complement our work with the natural sciences.
Read MoreJudicial independence, democratic or corporate?
There is no democracy without judicial independence but this independence must be democratic and not corporate.
Read MoreThe rebellion of the trees
The revolt that has Turkey on edge shows, once more, that governments do wrong by underestimating environmental protests.
Read MoreFormalised or married?
Since June 20th notaries and judges must “solemnize and formalize the link” between same-sex couples that come to them with this purpose, given that this is how it was adjured by the ruling C-577 of 2011 of the Constitutional Court. But, should they marry these couples or should they join them with a different contract than matrimony?
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