Colombia must implement the IACHR’s recommendations regarding social leaders, even during the pandemic
In its recent report, the IACHR crucially underscores the importance of recognizing the right to defend rights and the fundamental role of social leaders in Colombia, especially in the current context of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Read MoreWe won the Tang Prize!
Dejusticia, a Colombian think-do-tank with 15 years of history, is one of the three organizations in the world awarded this year with the Tang Prize in the Rule of Law category, and the first Latin American laureate in the history of the Tang Prize. This award, delivered biennially since 2014 by the Academia Sinica (Taiwan),…
Read MoreINCLO condemns the use of excessive force and the misuse of less-lethal weapons against protesters in the USA
Fourteen members of the International Network of Civil Liberties Organizations (INCLO) express deep concern over the escalation in police responses to protests in the USA over the past week. The protests erupted in response to the killing of George Floyd by police officers in Minneapolis on Monday. INCLO condemns the disproportionate use of force against protesters and calls on police to act in accordance with international standards on the use of force and the management of assemblies
Read MoreHistoric hearing! Organizations Warn The IACHR of the Impacts of the #ClimateCrisis on Human Rights
Fifteen national and regional organizations from over nine countries in the Americas appeared at a hearing on the impacts of climate change and its response measures on the rights of vulnerable groups.
Read MoreDigital conversation cycle “South-South Dialogues: Challenges and Opportunities in Human Rights”
Experts from academia and international organizations will discuss common issues and propose public policy recommendations and advocacy actions for civil society
Read MoreSuperior Court of Bogotá reaffirms that the right to defend human rights of social justice leaders must be protected
This important ruling confirms the urgent need to guarantee this right for social justice leaders and human rights defenders in their current situation of risk
Read MoreDejusticia welcomes Mary Lawlor’s appointment as the new UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders
In continuity with the Michel Forst’s work, we hope that the Special Rapporteur will visit Colombia and follow up on the report made by her predecessor
Read MoreControlling the Pandemic, Guaranteeing Rights
Already in various cases, such measures have been used to consolidate governmental power and to weaken the opposition, often using the health crisis as a pretext.
Read MoreCoronavirus and Migration: Unequal Responses?
The Coronavirus pandemic has made more evident than ever the great inequalities that exist in our societies, where the most vulnerable people, including the migrant and displaced population, will bear the greatest social costs and are most exposed to the virus.
Read MoreCourt rules in favor of social leaders and orders that the right to defend human rights be guaranteed
The decision emphasized that the fundamental rights of human rights defenders are not suspended at any time and that includes states of emergency. Therefore, the COVID-19 pandemic cannot be an excuse for not complying with the orders of this decision.
Read MoreTwo anniversaries and one conjecture
Five centuries of the Protestant schism and the one hundred years of the communist revolution are celebrated. Will there be revolutions like these in the future? Surely, but they will be very different.
Read MoreThe Independence of Festivities
The Independence Festivities of Cartagena affirm our identity and foster the social fabric. Thus, they must remain separate from the National Beauty Contest that obscured them with its media strength.
Read MoreSoda censorship
The Constitutional Court’s decision leaves us a message for current debates about other forms of censorship that the industry deploys. One particularly worrisome is the use or pressure on the media to not transmit pedagogical messages such as those by Educar Consumidores.
Read MoreJustice in forgotten territories
Justice is a necessary condition to consolidate peace. We owe a coordinated, effective, and efficient state offer of justice to people in forgotten municipalities who have suffered the conflict.
Read MoreFeeling vulnerable
Many men have difficulty understanding the fears that many women experience when facing the threat of harassment. We fail to understand the vulnerability that women feel in situations that men consider safe and banal, such as walking through certain places.
Read MoreIn defense of the small
The gregarious energies of contemporary sapiens are increasingly concentrated in small, self-absorbed and selfish groups.
Read MoreAsbestos and fried potatoes
In Colombia we are late in documenting the industry lobby: their contributions to political campaigns, the pressure on Congress’ members at the time of deliberation and voting. A good start is to keep track of the lobbyists and merchants of the doubt dealing with asbestos and ultra-processed foods.
Read MoreIndependence and judicial management: a democratic reading
The necessary independence of judges has been an argument against some attempts to reform justice. But it is a concept with multiple interpretations, and therefore we must clarify it in order to proceed with the reforms.
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 MoreSelfish patriotism
The future of humanity could be on the side of cosmopolitanism, not patriotism, which today seems more a form of collective selfishness than popular democracy.
Read MoreLaw and Globalization from Below
This book is an unprecedented effort of analyzing the role of rights within the global social justice movement, combining empirical investigation and innovative socio-legal theories on a variety of themes, from indigenous rights to the World Social Forum and global labor rights campaigns.
Read MoreThe New Left Wing in Latin America
This book is the first attempt at systematic analysis and comparison on the resurgence of left wing in Latin America in recent years.
Read MoreRights and Society in Latin America
In this book, a group of prominent lawyers and social scientists from diverse Latin American countries strike up a dialogue and offer innovative and rigorous answers on these and other questions.
Read MoreFreedom of Press and Fundamental Human Rights: An Analysis of the Constitutional System of Law in Colombia (1992 – 2005)
This book offers an exploration of the collision of freedom of press and human rights. The authors examine the scope of freedom of press in Colombia, asking what law should prevail when freedom of information is faced by needs for confidentiality.
Read MoreBetween ‘el Perdón’ and ‘el Paredón’: International Standards and Transitional processes in Colombia
This chapter gives a detailed recount of international jurisprudence and the limitations that it imposes, as well as the possibilities it offers to the countries in transition.
Read MoreSocial Market Economy and Free Trade Agreements in Colombia
This book tries to create an open plural and interdisciplinary debate about Free Trade Agreements.
Read MoreThe Law of Alternative Criminal and Transitional Justice
p> This text discusses transitional and criminal justice as applied to the demobilization of paramilitaries in the Colombian context.
Read MoreNew Tendencies in the Direction of Judicial Process: Formation Model
This book’s objective is to complete a comprehensive presentation of the role of a judge as “director” or “manager” during the judicial process.
Read MoreComparative Jurisprudence: Reception and Misreading of Transnational Legal Theory in Latin America
One could say that comparative jurisprudence is any kind of work in which international general jurisprudence is broken into pieces to articulate a national, regional, tribal or otherwise group-base experience with rather abstract ideas. This strategy, then, would lead to the juxtaposition of a national, regional or group adjective and the very word “jurisprudence”.
Read MoreThe Symbolic Efficacy of the Law
The book explores the symbolic efficacy of legal norms.
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