Dejusticia defended the Decree that allows the Court to suspend ordinary processes terms to focus on the implementation of peace
Dejusticia defended the decree that allows the Constitutional Court to suspend ordinary processes to concentrate on the norms that implement the Peace Agreement, but emphasized that this interruption can not be undefined.
Read MoreThe reform that gives the Peace Accord stability and legal certainty is constitutional
Dejusticia defended the constitutionality of the Legislative Act that gives legal certainty to the Final Agreement, and emphasized that its content responds to fundamental rights and international humanitarian law norms.
Read MoreThe 1991 Constitution is open to peace and the profound transformations that it will require
What is the nature, scope and type of control that the Constitutional Court must exercise over the Legislative Acts issued to implement the Final Peace Agreement? This is an intervention by Rodrigo Uprimny before the High Court.
Read MoreThe use of jail went out of proportion
If the idea was to control the production, transportation and use of drugs through tough policies, what ended up happening was the criminalization of the most vulnerable and marginalized.
Read MoreInter-American Comission on Human Rights wants to investigate police abuses during the Buenaventura strike
During a hearing in Lima, Peru, organizations working to protect the rights of the Afro-Colombian population claimed that the government and the FARC are ignoring this population in the implementation of the Peace Accord.
Read MoreSearch Unit for Missing Persons is urgent and crucial
In an intervention, Dejusticia argues that the norm that creates this unit meets the formal and material requirements to be declared constitutional. It also requests further clarity so that all information related to human rights violations is disclosed.
Read MoreEvery hour nine people are detained for drug-related crimes
The book “Drug crimes and prison overdose in Colombia”, produced by the Research Consortium on Drugs and the Law and Dejusticia, disagnoses the impact of drug policy on the prison system and recommends, among other measures, to decriminalize personal dose.
Read MoreDecree that created the National Comprehensive Program for Crop Substitution is constitutional
In an intervention before the Constitutional Court, Dejusticia argued that this norm conforms to the Constitution. However, the organization warned that the deadline to determine the beneficiaries should be reconsidered because it could leave out a group of peasants living in poverty.
Read More10 reasons why drug policy needs to be shaken up
The growing risks of the war on drugs can no longer be ignored. On June 26, organizations from around the world will come together under the slogan “Support. Do not punish.” In Colombia a special event will be held in Medellín this Friday 23.
Read MoreOpen Applications for Intensive Course on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
The Intensive Course on Social Rights opens its application process, open until August 15, 2017. The course, which will be taught from October 23 to 27, 2017 in Bogotá, offers advanced training on litigation, research, jurisprudence and innovative strategies for implementing social rights.
Read MoreHumboldt vs. Trump
In times of egos enlarged by social media, such as Trump’s, we lack the cosmic vision of Humboldt, where everything is interconnected.
Read MoreEveryday violence
A look at the behavior of homicides, personal injuries and violence between couples shows that the eradication of violent conflict goes beyond the peace process.
Read MoreA hammer and a nail
We must face the challenges of the complex society we have today; This implies accepting family diversity and the positive values it embodies.
Read MoreDemocracy and minorities
It was fair and democratic that the adoption referendum was rejected by the House of Representatives. To have had it approved would have been to open the way for the perversion of Colombian democracy.
Read MoreThe Alien Tort Statute’s Stakes for Property
The United States Supreme Court’s decision in Jesner v. Arab Bank, PLC will determine whether or not the ATS may be used in cases against corporations, carrying implications for actors working on corporate liability issues across the globe.
Read MoreSystematic murders
Although the government and the General Attorney’s office insist that the killings of social leaders are isolated, the numbers of violent deaths of leaders (156 in the last 14 months, according to the Ombudsman’s Office) shows otherwise.
Read MoreCongress members or public notaries?
Some congress members say that they are against the referendum on adoption, but that they will vote in favor of convening it by democratic conviction. But this referendum is actually undemocratic, full of lies, contrary to the interests of children, and deeply discriminatory.
Read MoreDo rivers have rights?
To avoid the slow death by pollution of the Atrato River it is necessary to protect the right to integrity and life of the river´s ecosystem.
Read MoreThe double standard of Viviane Morales
Six years ago, Senator Morales opposed a referendum to establish life imprisonment for people who raped children, using the same constitutional as those of us who currently oppose her referendum.
Read MoreAre believers better people than atheists?
Last week there was a strong debate on religion and morality. It all started with an interview with the Minister of Health, Alejandro Gaviria, about the publication of his latest book, where he speaks, among many other things, of his atheism. Alejandro Ordonez then accused him of being a “confessed atheist” (as if atheism was…
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