The 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 MoreBefore the Supreme Court of Justice, Peasants Demand That They Be Counted in 2018 Census
Peasants appealed the ruling by the the Superior Tribunal of Bogotá. The ruling recognized the importance of having statistical information on the peasantry, as well as the duty of the State to meet their needs, but did not order the institution in charge, the DANE, to change the form for the next year’s Census.
Read MoreMaduro’s persecuted
The flight to Europe by the former mayor of Caracas, Antonio Ledezma, uncovers one more of the 342 stories of political prisoners fleeing the government of Nicolás Maduro.
Read MoreA retroactive Special Jurisdiction for Peace
The criticism to the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) of being unacceptable for violating the prohibition of criminal retroactivity is actually confusing two related, but distinct things: retroactivity of laws that create crimes or aggravate penalties, which is not admissible in a democracy; and retroactivity of criminal courts, which is appropriate in certain circumstances.
Read MoreScorpions in a bottle
President Trump threatened the North Korean president this week with a “fire and fury” attack that, he said, “the world has never seen before.” It is incredible that the stability of the planet is in the hands of such characters. How is it possible that despite so many advances that humanity has had our institutions are in the hands of clumsy and volatile characters?
Read MoreFive warning signs so that the rural reform is not a failure
One of the axes of the Integral Rural Reform began to unfold: the construction of the Development Programs with a Territorial Approach (PDET), which seek to accelerate the structural transformation of the countryside in order to improve the quality of life, reverse the effects of the conflict, and contribute to the reparation and reconciliation in the territories.
Read MoreBlack Mirror
For the future not to be as Charlie Brooker paints it in Black Mirror, the popular Netflix series on surveillance and new technologies, we need that intelligence agencies around the world are held accountable and that Google and the Gods of the Internet are subject to some jurisdiction. Even if this is not easy.
Read MoreRights Without Borders
The tragedy of forced displacement violates the fundamental rights of those who must abandon their families, their homes and their jobs in order to survive. It is imperative that recipient countries have policies that guarantee the life, integrity and, family reunification of those who are victims of forced displacement.
Read MoreMotorcycles or metros
There is no more dangerous activity in Medellín than being a pedestrian or motorcyclist, which results from the chaos in the roads, lack of investment in mass transportation, lack of controls and non-compliance with rules.
Read MoreWhy Venezuela is a dictatorship
The dismantling of democracy can be incremental, like it was in Venezuela. First, there was the co-option of the courts, then the persecution of the political opposition, and last year, the suspension of regional elections. And now, with the Constituent Assembly, Maduro leapt into the dark.
Read MoreSilent persecutions: espionage, surveillance and democracy
Surveillance has become a mechanism of social control by governments. It has ceased to be an exclusive weapon of authoritarian states and has entered the democratic sphere.
Read MoreAn inclusive Special Jurisdiction for Peace
It is unacceptable to undermine the legitimacy of the Special Jurisdiction for Peace, generating unjustified doubts about an alleged ideological bias of the Election Committee and the ongoing selection process.
Read MoreThe anti-corrosive of peace
The lack of an effective and legitimate State, which earns the obedience of the people, has led Colombia to a vicious cycle of violence-peace-violence since the nineteenth century, with 26 amnesty processes and 63 pardons in total.
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