Farmers’ markets: from the countryside to the city without intermediaries
We took a tour of the Fontibón farmers’ market and got to know Agrocomunal. Among the stalls selling fruit, vegetables, snacks, and traditional foods, we heard the stories of at least 350 producers who, thanks to this organization, can sell their harvest directly to consumers in the capital.
Read MoreCorporación Vínculos, two decades committed to alleviating the emotional suffering caused by war
Since 2003, Corporación Vínculos has created strategies for care, listening, and rights training to accompany victims of armed conflict and thus contribute to alleviating the pain caused by war.
Read MoreThe sound of the ‘other’ voices of the Caribbean
The team at Vokaribe, a community radio station located in the Popular Library of the La Paz neighborhood, in the heart of the southwestern part of Barranquilla, is committed to making “that plural and diverse universe” heard through a sound project that amplifies the “other voices.”
Read MoreKankuama women, living fabric, and ancestral justice
In the heart of the world, the Sierra Nevada de Gonawindúa (Santa Marta), Kankuama women strengthen their own justice system through Community Committees, with the aim of guaranteeing access to justice for women and their families in order to achieve harmony and balance in their communities and territories.
Read MoreMontes de María, a treasure trove of stories
In this subregion of the Caribbean, a rural communications group accompanies marches, protests, and complaints from their communities with cameras and microphones. They also dedicate themselves to telling the everyday stories of peasant, indigenous, and Afro-descendant resistance, those that are lived on the land and in the home.
Read MoreBuenaventura: to dream is to resist
Buenaventura seems like a violent place, a city caught between war and despair, a port without a community. It is, however, the epicenter of multiple struggles and resistance movements, home to communities that face poverty and their past on a daily basis. The Pastoral Social, a branch of the Catholic Church, is committed to building a society that dares to dream of a different Buenaventura.
Read MoreProvidencia: small island, big Caribbean
For decades, the Old Providence Civic Oversight Committee has worked to protect the Raizal people of the islands of Providencia and Santa Catalina from dispossession. Through their work, they seek to preserve the Creole language and traditional cultural practices, the core of the islanders’ connection to their territory.
Read MoreThe Kankuamo people as guardians of the Sierra Nevada
The Kankuamo people of the Sierra Nevada de Gonawindúa are guardians of ancient knowledge, preserving the balance and way of life that is kept high in the mountains. To fulfill their life mission, the Kankuamos have resisted colonization and conflict, reborn in their own government as envisioned by the mamos and sagas. “Our ancestors taught us to care for and live in brotherhood and community,” is the lesson left by Governor Jaime Luis Arias.
Read MoreThe struggle of ACIMVIP: Sacha Muiu and the protection of the territory
In Villagarzón, known as the heart of Putumayo for its rich biodiversity, the hopes and goals of the Inga people remain. ACIMVIP.
Read MoreUma Kiwe Mother Earth: a commitment to caring for water and life in Mocoa
In the Colombian Amazon foothills, three women have come together around a dream: to resist the extractivist destiny that has contributed to the destruction of the forest, rivers, and their communities, using communication as a form of defense and conservation of their territory.
Read MoreHuman Rights and the Practical Power of Art
At a time when the human rights movement is facing great challenges, and at a moment when there is a widespread recognition that the human rights movement must be more interdisciplinary, and locally connected, human rights advocates should be more purposeful in integrating art, in addition to social sciences, into our practice.
Read MoreWhat structure for the Special Jurisdiction for Peace?
The Colombian high courts have had strong offices for each magistrate while the institution in itself is relatively weak. The JEP should not copy this model because given its large size, the risks of incoherence and lack of coordination would increase.
Read MoreThe other war
In Colombia, about four thousand people are killed each year in motorcycle accidents. Motorcycles are leaving behind a tragedy of the dead and the disabled, which responds to the lack of education and effective regulation.
Read MoreThe time for climate change litigation
Cities like New York and San Francisco have sued large oil companies for their contribution to climate disasters. It’s time for that trend to reach Latin America.
Read MoreA new opportunistic cartel
The Prosecutor’s Office should provide information on negotiations such as those made with former Governor Lyons to assess whether they are effective and prevent another cartel from forming.
Read MoreThe world is still wide and alien
The unforeseen incidents of bringing together a handful of indigenous leaders from around the world to Colombia for the First Global Workshop for Indigenous Leaders.
Read MoreInsecurity: desperate measures
Justice through people’s own hands and the deaths in neighborhoods fights show the failure of the State in several sectors of the city, especially those that are outside the tourist circuit.
Read More“La señorita María” will not make part of the census
The census that began this week does not have the questions to properly account for the LGBT population, or the peasant population, or to evaluate multidimensional poverty.
Read MorePoor census
The census that began to run electronically this week is characterized by improvisation, smallness and inequity.
Read MoreA census without peasants?
How is the State going to take peasants into account in its policies if it does not count them in its main instrument for collecting information, which is the census? The request of peasants is fair because this population has historically suffered from structural discrimination. A single piece of data shows that: rural poverty (45%) is approximately three times higher than urban poverty (15%).
Read MoreExperiences in Latin American Countries on the Investigation of Complex Crimes
In this document we describe some of the experiences in the region’s countries regarding the investigation of complex crimes.
Read MoreThe States of the Country: Municipal Institutions and Local Realities in Colombia
This book studies the Colombia’s social reality through local institutions.
Read MoreWeaving Rights 2: Reparation for Indigenous Peoples
The second book in the collection is on the right to reparations for indigenous peoples
Read MoreWeaving Rights 1: Prior Consultation and Free, Prior, and Informed Participation
The first book of the collection is about the rights to prior consultation and free, prior and informed participation.
Read MoreEthno-Reparations: Ethnic Collective Justice and Reparations for Afro and Indigenous Communities in Colombia
This text begins by explaining the concept of “collective ethnic justice” and then offers practical guidance on how it can be achieved in practice by describing relevant principles and criteria found in Colombian and international law.
Read MoreAccess to Justice: Cases of Business Human Rights Abuses
Access to justice and effective remedy have become a crucial element in the protection of human rights within the context of business activities, as well as an area of fundamental importance to judges and lawyers who aim to promote the rule of law and human rights.
Read MoreSystems Overload: Drug Laws and Prisons in Latin America
This paper demonstrates how drug policy in the country tended to a progressive hardening along the twentieth century and, notwithstanding, failed to be effective in reducing supply and in combating organized crime networks dedicated to trafficking.
Read MoreAltered State: Clientelism, Mafias and Institutional Weakness in Colombia
This book articulates a comprehensive vision of not only the the social and political effects of the paramilitary phenomenon in Colombia, but also of the institutional and legal weaknesses of the Colombian government, which has been captured by mafias and political actors.
Read MoreIn Search of a Transformative and Participatory Concept of Reparations in the Context of Transitional Justice
This article aims to help overcome some of the limitations of the prevailing transitional justice approach.
Read MoreAnd they refounded the homeland… On how the mafia and politicians reconfigured the Colombian State
This publication discusses the implications of the capture of the Colombian State by illegal armed groups.
Read MoreChallenge to the request for annulment of the decree that regulates the provision of services for voluntary interruption of pregnancy
Dejusticia requests the Council of State refuse the request for nullity of the decree that regulates the provision of services for voluntary interruption of pregnancy. We argue that this regulation is legitimate as Act 100 of 1993 establishes that the National Government is the competent authority to regulate the provision of health services.
Read MoreMotion for legal protection due to a decree that restricts freedom of expression and access to information during presidential elections
The Center for the Study in Law, Justice and Society – Dejusticia, the Electoral Observation Mission – MOE, Media for Peace, the Association of Colombian Newspapers – Andiarios, and the Foundation for Press Freedom – FLIP interposed a motion for legal protection against the Interior and Justice Ministry for the issuance of the decree regulating public order during the first and second rounds of presidential elections, considering that some articles violated the freedom of expression and access to information.
On May 24, 2010 the decree 1800 which “sets out regulations for the preservation of public order during the presidential elections” was issued. The decree, which is the same that has been used since the elections of 1994, restricts journalists freedom of expression and information on the day of presidential elections.
These restrictions require the media to convey information relating to public order only when it has been confirmed by official sources. It also forbids the media to publish any information on the election results that is different to the one released by electoral authorities. Additionally, it orders the media to give priority to the messages issued by these authorities in the electoral process.
After doing a legal review of these standards, the organizations find that the Ministry is violating the fundamental rights of journalists since it ignores the principle of non-censorship, makes unreasonable restrictions, and, moreover, is dealt with by a decree when the Constitution is clear in giving regulatory power to statutory laws.
Read MoreConstitutional claim for victims of forced disappearance to be recognized as victims of political violence to access humanitarian aid.
This claim, submitted jointly by the Nydia Erika Bautista Foundation and Dejusticia, aims to correct this legislative omission so that victims of forced disappearance are recognized as victims of political violence and so that they have access to humanitarian aid without having to undertake the process of obtaining a presumption of death declaration.
Read MoreCitizen Intervention: tutela against the Ministry of Transport and others for violations of the right to prior consultation and territory
In this amicus, support for the arguments advanced by the Colombian Commission of Jurists in order to suspend the construction of a road that crosses indigenous reservations as well as gold mining exploration such until the indigenous peoples affected (Embera, Katío y Embera, Dobida) have been consulted with.
Read MoreIntervention on the constitutionality of the declaration of state of emergency.
Dejusticia requests that in the case that the Court find that the health system suffers from a financial crisis that affects its immediate stability, the Court declare inapplicable all unconstitutional reasons for the declaration of emergency contained in Decree 4975 of 2009, as they attempt to permit a structural reform of the Health System, which may only be undertaken by Congress.
Read MoreAmicus curiae in tutela for protection of the right to mental health of victims of forced displacement
Dejusticia supports the tutela to ensure the right to health of four women who have not received comprehensive care for the serious mental and emotional disorders they suffer following their forced displacement due to violence of the armed conflict
Read MoreIntervention on the constitutionality of Art. 113 of the Civil Code regarding civil marriage
Dejusticia supports plaintiffs which challenge Article 113 of the Civil Code that establishes marriage only for heterosexual couples and defines procreation as one of its purposes
Read MoreIntervention on the constitutionality of the re-election referendum
Intervention in challenge to the constitutionality of the re-election referendum. The intervention requests the Court to declare unconstitutional the law that calls for the aforementioned referendum.
Read MoreIntervention on the law of freedom of slaves
Dejusticia, member of Racial Discrimination Watch, intervened in the challenge to Law 21 of 1851 (Freedom of slaves), arguing that the Court should declare the case admissible and guarantee integral and collective reparation for the Afro-Colombian population who suffered the crime of slavery.
Read MoreIntervention relating to free primary education
Dejusticia intervened in a lawsuit to declare charging fees for public primary schools unconstitutional.
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