The Supreme Court rules in favor of peasants
Regarding the legal action that 1,770 peasants filed to be included in the census, the court ordered the Government to define the concept of peasant, to include this population in the census, and to advance public policies that ensure their material equality.
Read MoreThe foreign minister’s silence on Colombians imprisoned in Venezuela
More than 60 innocent Colombians sleep in Venezuelan jail cells. Although similar situations have resulted in diplomatic confrontations between Venezuela and countries such as Brazil, in Colombia, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, María Ángela Holguín has kept a low profile.
Read MoreThe Inspector General’s Office intervened to support our legal action on climate change
The delegate for environmental issues supports the legal action by 25 young people and claims that the Government does not have a clear policy to stop deforestation, the main cause behind the warming of the country’s average temperatures.
Read MoreVictims and press after the war
The drive to conduct this research was born out of the tension that developed on May of 2017 in the context of the journalistic coverage of the exhumations of those who died in the Bojayá massacre.
Read MoreVenezuela Must Respect the People’s Right to Free and Fair Elections
On January 23, Venezuela’s National Constituent Assembly (ANC) approved a decree that calls for presidential elections to be held by April 30, 2018. As organizations devoted to advancing human rights in the Americas, we are profoundly concerned
Read MoreEight key points of the first Latin American lawsuit on the rights of future generations and climate change
Deforestation in the Colombian Amazon (the most biodiverse region in the world) violates the right of colombian children and youth to enjoy a healthy environment. Given that all ecosystems are interconnected, deforestation in the Amazon not only affects those living in the region, but also elsewhere in Colombia.
Read MoreFirst Climate Change Lawsuit in Latin America
Twenty-five young Colombians want to defend their environmental heritage, which is why they demand that authorities stop the deforestation in the Amazon rainforest and comply with the Paris Agreements.
Read MoreColombian Youth File the First Climate Change Lawsuit in Latin America
25 young people are demanding the government halts deforestation.
Read MoreDejusticia and more than 70 international organizations request urgent attention for people who inject themselves with drugs in Colombia
In Colombia, the suspension of services puts at risk the advances achieved in recent years. More than 1,000 people are unattended.
Read MoreCoca: the plant that takes a toll
On April 2017, we traveled to the department of Putumayo, Colombia to speak with a group of cocalera women about how the Crop Substitution Program should advance. This is the powerful testimony of one of them.
Read MoreThe priorities of Héctor Abad Gómez
This year marks the 30th anniversary of the death of Héctor Abad Gómez. As a good public health worker, he believed that children should be vaccinated, adults should adopt hygiene measures, food should be improved and people should not kill each other fighting. In short, he fought against the two epidemics that kill most people: poverty and war.
Read MoreTruthful discussions
If we want to overcome the post-truth era and escape the the polarization that threatens us, Colombia needs a solid but informed public debate; a debate with vigor but without lies, falsehoods or unjust attacks like the one I was subjected to last week by the ex Inspector General Alejandro Ordóñez.
Read MoreThe right to organize your own funeral
In Colombia, only 18 euthanasias have been practiced in two years of regulation. In Canada, however, in just six months of an equivalent standard, more than 800 euthanasias have been performed. A society must be judged not by how it treats the most powerful, but those who are in the weakest conditions.
Read MoreThe pain of not knowing
Today enforced disappearances continue to be used as a political weapon, not only in dictatorships like Venezuela, but in democracies, countries undergoing internal conflict, and political transitions.
Read MoreTo prohibit paramilitarism?
Perhaps the constitutional prohibition of paramilitarism will not magically make disappear this atrocious phenomenon and its consequences in Colombia. But it would mean a big step in building a robust policy to prevent and punish it, along with the actions that have made it possible.
Read MoreThe challenges of the law
Lawyers in Colombia do not control themselves (self-regulation) nor allow themselves to be controlled. Everything begins with law faculties, which teach and do whatever they want, or almost do so. But the most serious comes later, when students obtain the title of lawyers and can choose between being a litigant, judge, professor of law, notary or public official.
Read MoreCorruption
To understand and overcome corrupt practices, one must see the rest of the iceberg: the vast majority of irregular behaviors, which may not be so spectacular or visible, but without which there would be no more serious crimes.
Read MoreMass release of criminals?
This measure – which undoubtedly causes alarm and creates problems – is necessary to mitigate the damages caused by the inability of the Colombian State to provide this basic service quickly and efficiently. Six necessary clarifications on a Law that has been poorly understood.
Read MoreThank you, Sergio Jaramillo
Whoever becomes the High Commissioner for Peace, will have to continue with a legacy that, above political and sectoral interests, prioritizes safeguarding the essence of what was agreed.
Read MoreChildren first?
Our rulers and politicians have accustomed us to speeches where they say that boys and girls are at the center of their governments and policies, but the reality is different. That is why it is time to put children in the center of the state and not at the margin where they have always been.
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