Murat Çelikkan: When dissent becomes crime
This weekend he was supposed to come to Colombia, to a forum on human rights in Cali. Today the Turkish activist is in jail for being editor of an opposition newspaper.
Read MoreDejusticia, ICAR and ECCJ release updated report on Assessments of Existing National Action Planson Business and HR
The International Corporate Accountability Roundtable (ICAR), the European Coalition for Corporate Justice (ECCJ), and the Center for the Study of Law, Justice, and Society (Dejusticia) are pleased to release an updated report on Assessments of Existing National Action Plans (NAPs) on Business and Human Rights.
Read MoreDejusticia refrains from commenting on selection of Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) members
In order to maintain our autonomy and preserve the capacity for independent reflection, we will not comment on the applicants to the Integral System of Truth, Justice, Reparation and Non-Repetition.
Read MoreRural reform decree to resolve historic debt with peasants
Terrible conditions in the countryside and lack of access to land are linked to the armed conflict. Point one of the Peace Agreement, which is under study by the Constitutional Court, addresses these issues. Dejusticia presented an intervention supporting most of its content.
Read More#VenezuelaBienvenida, a call for solidarity
With this initiative, we want to bring Colombians closer to the stories of the Venezuelans who migrated to our country and the deep economic and humanitarian crisis that Venezuela is experiencing.
Read MoreA Colombian woman appeals to the government for help locating her son arbitrarily detained in Venezuela
Ramona Rangel reports that on July 30th, the [Venezuelan] Bolivarian Intelligence Service took her 24-year-old son, Juan Pedro Lares, from his home in Venezuela. 11 days later, and still without any updates regarding his whereabouts, Rangel is asking the Colombian Embassy in Venezuela for help with her search.
Read MoreThe national government geographically isolated Chocó
We intervened to support a tutela that requires the government to pave the
Quibdó-Medellín and Quibdó-Pereira roads: a promise that has historically been unfulfilled.
It is necessary to consolidate the JEP as soon as possible: press release
Dejusticia, together with other civil society organizations and academics, celebrate the definitive step of the FARC-EP’s abandonment of arms to end the conflict and stress the importance of consolidating the Special Jurisdiction for Peace as the next key step.
Read MoreThe Constitutional Court has the last word to save the Ciénaga Grande of Santa Marta
The environmental crisis of this ecosystem led fishermen to pursue a legal battle that reached the High Court. In this intervention, we support their demand that environmental authorities take urgent measures to stop the disaster and thus, protect their rights to healthy environment, dignified life and work.
Read MoreThe migratory wall facing refugees
What is it like to migrate to Colombia and the United States? The stories of Johan and Sonia, two of the 65.6 million people who have been forcibly displaced around the world.
Read MoreFor a stable peace, a sensible opposition
One of the most difficult wounds to heal from the armed conflict is closely related to the democratic debate. In the post-conflict period, democracies tend to be at their weakest point. Hence why a sensible dialogue between political forces is a condition for the prosperity of peace.
Read MoreJudicial impartiality
By not recusing himself from voting on a fast track ruling, Justice Bernal violated his judicial duties and placed the Court and the country in a difficult situation: the possibility of revoking the sentence increases legal uncertainty and political polarization.
Read MoreThe debts we owe to female coca growers
Although women growers face particular contexts of discrimination, poverty and workload, the decree creating the Program for the Substitution of illicit crops did not include a gender approach.
Read MoreThe easy case of Justice Bernal
The case of Justice Bernal, who would be unable to vote in a fast track ruling, is easy: it should lead to the nullity of that sentence.
Read MoreThe Salamanca frog
Instead of contemplating the greatness of disarmament, which opens the door to peace, many critics have stubbornly sought out the “frog” and say that the process was all a farce. Even if it received UN verification.
Read MoreA hint of cosmopolitanism
Perhaps the next great revolution in the history of mankind will no longer happen in a country (as in Russia in 1917 or in France in 1789), but throughout the world and be the result of the coordination of actions of millions of people.
Read MoreThe luck of prohibition: Bloomsday
The history of art is plagued with censorship. Ulysses, by the Irish author James Joyce, was banned for more than ten years and went to trial three times for being considered obscene.
Read MoreDangerous arbitration
The investment treaty with France, which provides clauses of arbitration and indirect expropriation, was approved during a third debate in Congress. The treaty could be approved in the next few days without much analysis or discussion. And it should not be so because the risk of these treaties is enormous.
Read MoreDangers without a warning
There are high risks with minimal concerns, like when you fall in the bathroom, and low risks with high concerns, like a terrorist attack. In Colombia there is a very high danger accompanied by a minimal concern: every year, accidents on public roads take the lives of 5,000 bystanders.
Read More“Ask the President …”
Accountability and transparency, a requirement to avoid corruption, is an activity of daily openness that every official must fulfill. Even when it comes to giving answers that are not worthy of a public entity, let alone the one responsible for ensuring transparency, such as the Office of Procurator-General.
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