Global Conversations
In times of an upside down world , achieving global conversations is an urgent challenge. This is suddently a new opportunity to build a global united front for a new world in which other forms of life are included.
Read MoreThe road to peace is not only about eradicating coca
In Havana, the agreement did not only lay out the number of hectares to be eradicated, but also the means to make it possible and sustainable in order to achieve that “stable and lasting” peace that is called for in the final agreement.
Read MoreThe Shrinking of Civic Spaces: What is Happening and What Can We Do?
In addition to the threat of populism, human rights face another distinct, yet related phenomenon: the shrinking of civil society spaces around the world.
Read MoreSmearing the Special Jurisdiction for Peace
Those who opposed the Peace Accord, and particularly the Special Jurisdiction for Peace, have all the right to criticize it. But they do not have the right to lie in order to mislead public opinion.
Read MoreMocoa
I think it was Jacob Bronowski, the 1970s celebrated popularizer of scientific knowledge, who said that nature cannot be dominated by force, but by knowledge. What happened in Mocoa has much to do with that: a lack of preparedness that originated in a lack of knowledge.
Read MoreThe Heroism of Prevention
Atul Gawande, the notable surgeon and writer, published recently “The Heroism of Incremental Care”, a tremendous chronicle of the true heroes of his profession: those who save the most lives. He well could have written about the heroes of tragedies such as the landslide of Mocoa
Read MoreThe gap between discourse and practice for drug policy reform in Latin America
The drug policy reform movement, albeit with its internal diversity, has one main premise: prohibition of drugs has failed to achieve its goal of reducing both demand and supply for illicit substances.
Read MoreMadurazo
There were no tanks attacking the civil institutions, which characterized previous coups. But in Venezuela there was a coup d’état, which intends to be judicially legalized, but that nevertheless is a democratic rupture.
Read MoreDepoliticize the essential
In every society there must be clarity about the difference between what is inside and what is outside the political debate. The decisions that the Government makes in economic, educational or health matters, for example, make part of the first.
Read More10 years of struggle: the story behind the mining consultation in Cajamarca
In Colombia, getting citizens to decide about mining in their territory has not been easy.
Read MoreProposal for the draft legislative act giving stability and security to the Final Agreement
As part of a plural group, Dejusticia presents an analysis on the political expediency and constitutional justification of Draft Legislative Act 01 of 2016 Senate (PAL 1/2016), which gives stability and legal security to the Final Peace Agreement.
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The transition to peace: our commitment to democratize and contribute to the implementation process of the agreement
In Dejusticia, we believe that citizen participation and the transparency of the implementation process are fundamental for the construction of a lasting peace beyond what is agreed on paper. In that sense we want to contribute with the website ‘The transit to peace’.
Read MoreAn organization with collective leadership: our history reviewed in the Leader Network
The Leader Network chose Dejusticia to initiate the series of profiles on collective leadership. The profile published in Silla Vacía investigates three fundamental measures of leadership: vision, example and results.
Read MorePopular consultations are constitutional, binding and do have effects on mining concessions
Read here our clarifications about the scope and binding nature of the consultation.
Read MoreThe first four books of the “Ideas for Peace Building” collection are already available
The series, which will have a total of ten texts, seeks to provide thematic documents that offer diagnoses and proposals on some of the post-agreement challenges.
Call for applications to the fifth Global Action-Research Workshop is now open
The purpose of the workshop is to strengthen the research, writing and advocacy capacity of its participants and their contributions to their organizations and the international human rights movement in general. Call open until 31 March.
Read MoreStates must guarantee the ESCR of refugees and migrants
The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ESCR) published a new press release clarifying the obligations that derive from the International Covenant on ESCR regarding refugee and migrant populations in each country.
Read MoreThe Many Fundamental Rights That Were Violated as to the Wayúu Population: Special Report by Dejusticia
On March 9, 2017, Dejusticia presented a report in support of the Constitutional Court’s inspection of La Guajira. This on-site visit by the Court was part of its follow up on a tutela filed by a private citizen, which complained that Wayúu children were being denied the rights to health, food, and potable water (process T-5.697.370). The goal of Dejusticia’s supporting report was to provide complementary information to the High Court about the humanitarian crisis that the department of La Guajira is suffering, where, according to indigenous leaders, between 80 and 90 children died from malnutrition.
Read MoreCommuniqué on transparency and publicity of decree-laws and process management of the Constitutional Court, in the fast-track
Dejusticia, alongside several civil society organizations, academics and research centers, issued an open letter with proposals to create transparency and dissemination measures regarding the development of norms to implement the peace accord.
Read MoreViolence against defenders of social rights is, in itself, a violation of ESCR
The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights of the United Nations recently reminded States that they have a responsibility to ensure the protection of human rights defenders.
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