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Read MoreDigital technologies and political campaigns: a risk for the 2022 elections?
We investigated micro-segmentation of potential voters on social media in Colombia and questionable company actions. Here are five findings.
Read MoreThe ABCs of the Social Protest and Human Rights Crisis in Colombia
If you have not yet understood the serious situation in the streets of Colombia since April 28, 2021, we explain three essential aspects of the social mobilization agenda in which violence has been an unfortunate protagonist.
Read MoreProtests in Colombia: 650 civil society organizations call for urgent action from IACHR
Given the fragile institutional situation and the seriousness of human rights violations in Colombia, a group of 650 organizations, including Dejusticia, made a joint call to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) asking to energetically condemn the acts of violence and repression of social protest in Colombia and to visit the country to verify…
Read MoreWe condemn violence and call for respect for the right to protest in Colombia
For the allegations of human rights violations during the current national strike, we call for compliance with the orders issued by the Supreme Court of Justice for these contexts.
Read MoreNew Research Report: “The Defense of Human Rights in Venezuela”
This report is the result of an assessment of the obstacles that civil society organizations are facing, as well as their resistance and resilience in their continued defense 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 More“Protecting Human Rights on the Ground,” a report on UNHCR country offices
This research is intended to offer tools to the Venezuelan human rights movement, to other civil society organizations, and to States who have an interest in the establishment of a UNHCR office in Venezuela.
Read MoreSupreme Court of Justice protects the right to protest against police violence
The Supreme Court of Justice of Colombia protected the right of all people to demonstrate and the duty of the authorities to “ward off, prevent and punish the systematic, violent and arbitrary intervention of the public force in demonstrations and protests.”
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 MoreInabilities in the Special Jurisdiction for Peace
The Senate’s decision to prohibit people who have litigated human rights cases against the State from becoming JEP (Special Jurisdiction for Peace) magistrates is grossly unconstitutional.
Read MoreThe grammar of peace
The Constitutional Court’s decision on the Special Jurisdiction for Peace is an important step to leave the explosive mess in which find ourselves in and to begin to consolidate peace.
Read MoreLegalism, morality and truth
The unequivocal belief in one’s own goodness and the wickedness of the opponent is an obstacle to the construction of a truth as precise as it is inclusive. The historical fact is one, but the experiences and the reasons are multiple. We should start by understanding the interlocutor.
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 MoreSentences and political participation
That the FARC leaders can aspire to be elected before being judged by the JEP is not an arbitrary formula: it allows the former commanders to ensure the cohesion of the guerrilla and its transformation into a political actor.
Read MoreThe policy of love
In Venezuela, a law was passed imposing harsh penalties for those who promote hatred and fascism. Pretending to eradicate hate and impose love is a typical feature of tyranny.
Read MoreTo inherit memories
Today started yesterday. Yesterday, November 6, 1985, towards the end of the morning, the massacre began at the Palace of Justice. (Thursday, November 7, 1985, ‘Official History of Love’, Ricardo Silva Romero).
Read MoreJunk food (SIC)
The randomness of spelling made the acronym of the Superintendence of Industry and Commerce (SIC) the same Latin word used to draw attention to an error in a text (sic).
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 MoreScience, conscience and counter-science
In 1956, the scientist Clair Patterson warned that there was an excess of lead in the environment linked to industrial production. Patterson was accused of fundamentalism for warning about the health-related dangers of this metal, just as it happens today with some industries that dismiss scientific evidence.
Read MoreThe Judicial Control of the States of Exception
This article reviews the history of the Colombia Constitution and its exceptions.
Read MoreConstitutional Protection of Rights in Brazil, Spain and Colombia: Constitutional Control of the Sentences
The works collected in this volume, on the Brazilian, Spanish, and Colombian experience, analyze some of the problems derived from the functional reach assigned to their cores.
Read MoreLabor Rights in the FTA Between Colombia and the United States
This article examines the theoretical debate and the comparative experiences of labor clauses in free trade agreements and proposes norms for the FTA between Colombia and the United States that effectively protect labor rights.
(In: Catalina Botero & Andrea Guardo, eds. Economía social de mercado y tratados de libre comercio en Colombia. Fundación Social y Fund. Konrad Adenauer, 2004)
Read MoreBetween the prominence and the routine: A socio-legal analysis of Colombian justice (1980-2005)
This chapter analyzes two apparently paradoxical aspects of Colombian judicial evolution: its protagonism and its enormous political visibility, on the one hand, and its routinization and loss of social relevance, on the other.
Read MoreThe Search for Alternative Economies in Times of Globalization: the Case Study of Informal Recycling in Bogotá
This text examines the potential of supportive economy in the context of globalization, by the way of a case study on the informal recycling cooperatives in Bogotá.
Read MoreExpanding the Economic Canon and Searching for Alternatives to Neoliberal Globalization
This introductory chapter theorizes and documents the diverse initiatives of supportive economy and working transnational mobilization that promises of counterhegemonic globalization.
Read MoreThe Kaleidoscope of Justices in Colombia
Critical Studies of Law and the Theory of Judicial Decision
This introductory study analyzes one of the most influential contemporary debates about the interpretation of rights and judicial decision, initiated between theorists Herbert Hart and Ronald Dworkin.
Read MoreThe Test of Reasonableness and the Right to Equality
This chapter analyzes the jurisprudential application of the equality clause as a constitutional right and proposes a test of reasonableness and compares this clause with those in American and European jurisprudences.
Read MoreTheory of Right and Judicial Decision
This introductory study analyzes one of the most influential contemporary debates on the interpretation of rights and judicial decisions, begun between the theories of Herbert Hart and Ronald Dworkin.
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