The 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 MoreClimate Change Research Coordinator, International Area
The Climate Change Research Coordinator will work with the International Research Team in developing Climate Change research and will also contribute to coordinate the work on Business and Human Rights (BHR) at the international level.
Read MoreEnvironmentalists of Caquetá gathered inputs for the creation of the Intergenerational Pact for the life of the Amazon
More than 50 young people participated in “Days of Hope in Caquetá”, a creative activism event for the conservation of the Colombian Amazon, driven by Landscape of Hope, Dejusticia, PID Amazon, Red Cross and Tell.
Read MoreEnlaza Venezuela arrives on October 2nd to the Museum of Modern Art of Bogotá
This will be an event that will show attendees the different paths that exist to support organizations that continue to work to transform the situation in Venezuela.
Read MoreWorkshop on creative activism Days of Hope is coming to Caquetá on the 21st of September
Dejusticia, PID Amazonía, the Red Cross Bogotá and Tell are getting together in Florencia to hold the first event of this international initiative that combines art and social mobilization.
Read MoreAttention! Job Opportunity at Dejusticia
Dejusticia is seeking a dynamic International Area Director who will both lead and work alongside the team to ensure the efficient functioning of the international area in its multiple tasks.
Read MoreSantrich Case: Dejusticia Defends and Respects the Autonomy and Independence of the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP)
In the face of this controversy, Dejusticia calls on the Appeals Section (Sección de Apelaciones) of the JEP to clarify the special rules on evidentiary matters which apply to the guarantee of non-extradition.
Read MoreThe Colombian government has failed to fulfill the Supreme Court’s landmark order to protect the Amazon
One year ago, the Colombian Supreme Court declared the Colombian Amazon a subject of rights, ordering the government to take measures to preserve it by curbing deforestation. However, the government has not taken sufficient action; meanwhile, threats to the rainforest continue to grow.
Read MoreJoin our Petition in Change.org: We want zero deforestation in the Amazon
We, the 25 children and youth who won the first case in Latin America involving climate change and future generations, met with experts and civil society organizations in Colombia to ask our Congress, #LetsChangeTheGoal on deforestation that President Iván Duque proposed in the National Development Plan (NDP) 2018-2022.
Read More#LetsChangeTheGoal: We ask for a change in the deforestation target proposed in the National Development Plan
Civil society organizations sent a letter to Congress asking that the committee in charge of the National Development Plan change the indicators of deforestation results in Colombia.
Read MoreDefending Santa Rita
The weight of state neglect fell on the 40 year-old building in the Santa Rita Market, until the community’s claims bore fruit in June 2011, when the Mayor of Cartagena socialized the designs for its renovation and left in a 12,000 million pesos allocation for its construction. However, today the work is a monument to district inefficiency.
Read More#MeToo
You do not have to be perceptive to guess that in the country championing cosmetic surgery, entertainment or advertising, these are not the only sectors where there is harassment, or where there is a fine line ranging from lascivious compliments and misogynistic jokes to workplace abuse and sexual violence.
Read More¿Tutelitis o abusitis?
Las reformas a la justicia deben partir de análisis integrales. Esto no significa que no puedan incorporar herramientas específicas para enfrentar ciertos problemas como la congestión judicial. Significa que en ciertos asuntos, las reformas deben tener una visión de Estado.
Read MoreTogether: a message for LGBTI activism
“Juntas” tells the story of the first female couple who married in Latin America and who, after two decades of living outside Colombia, return to the country to remember. A delicate and intimate film that leaves us many lessons for activism in the region.
Read MoreThere was no trick
There was no trick because there was no intention to evade the popular will. In a very difficult and volatile context, the government opted for the representative of the people, which is Congress, to interpret and decide whether or not the new agreement met the popular mandate of the plebiscite.
Read MorePeace without State
What happened in Tumaco in recent weeks is proof that violence not only depends on peace agreements, but also on strengthening the local state.
Read MoreThe need for collective leadership
We received the 2017 Collective Leadership Award, awarded by Semana Magazine, the Leadership and Democracy Foundation and Telefónica. These are the words of our Director.
Read More‘Ideas for peacebuilding’ brings four new debates for post-conflict
In response to the first implementation phase of the peace agreements that Colombia is currently experiencing in and light of the upcoming presidential elections of 2018, Dejusticia presents its second series of proposals to consolidate peace and think about post-conflict.
Read MorePeace implementation: was there a trick?
In the plebiscite for peace, some voted for hatred of the FARC; others because they conscientiously read the agreement and rejected it; others came out in anger after reading certain messages, not always accurate, that they received, etc. An obvious question arises: who could interpret and decide whether the changes incorporated into the new agreement genuinely responded to the concerns of those who voted against it?
Read MoreA normal country
During the decades that the armed conflict lasted, much was written about violence and its causes, to the point that a group of experts on this subject emerged (unique in the world) under the name of violentologists. Perhaps today we must do something similar for corruption.
Read MoreColombian Political Constitution
The book contains the text of the Colombian political Constitution, commented edition, including the relevant doctrine and jurisprudence on each of the articles. The original texts upon which Legis has done successive updates were elaborated by Catalina Botero.
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