Clarification on Cajarmarca
Despite the interests and passions at stake, we must accept and debate with arguments the decision of the inhabitants of Cajamarca to ban mining and protect the water and agricultural interests of their municipality.
Read More“If there is no water for the people, there is no water for the palm”: the ‘peace’ conflicts of Marialabaja
The Montes de María subregion in the Colombian Caribbean has been living for ten years what is now called postconflict: the absence of formal armed actors in the territory and the government’s commitment to guarantee rights and non-repetition.
Read MoreVenezuela, welcome to Colombia
Our Venezuelan brothers and sisters are migrating to Colombia in search of a dignified life. The authoritarian regime of Nicolás Maduro is creating the worst humanitarian crisis in Venezuela.
Read MoreCitizen constitutionalism
Clemenceu once said that war is too serious a matter to leave to the military alone. I also believe that the Constitution is too serious a matter to leave to the constitutional courts alone.
Read MoreWho is a populist?
Populists are, in the end, antidemocratic. What’s more: they use democratic election and the language of democracy in order to undermine it.
Read MoreBeing detained for arguing with the police?
Last Friday at 11 pm, a friend who I was with received a call from two of her friends who told her they were being taken to the UPJ for having a beer in the Park of the Hippies in Bogotá
Read MoreMoney and democracy
The revelations of these weeks showed that the campaigns of Santos 2010 and Zuluaga 2014 received concealed funding from Odebrecht, which allowed them to violate the electoral caps.
Read MoreSunflowers and tricks
In 2010, presidential campaign year, candidate Antanas Mockus designed his political proposal based on simple ideas like these: “not everything is fair game” and “public life and resources are sacred.”
Read MoreWhere will the 9 million hectares needed for zidres come from?
Before delivering a considerable part of Colombia to private enterprise, the Government must resolve these five issues.
Read MoreThe progressive silence on Venezuela
As eloquent as the last OAS report on the extinction of democracy and human rights in Venezuela has been the silence of many progressive Latin American sectors, including human rights organizations.
Read MoreFirst Global Workshop on Human Rights Strategies for Indigenous Leaders in the Global South
Dejusticia and the Racial Discrimination Watch opens their call to the First Global Workshop on Human Rights Strategies for Indigenous Leaders in the Global South. The workshop will be held in Colombia in December 2017. The call for proposals is open until June 10th.
Read MoreNew study shows growth in the number of prisoners in Latin America for low-level drug offenses
Today, the Drug and Law Study Group (CEDD), a network of experts on drug policy in 9 Latin American countries, publishes new research that reveals that despite the debate in Latin America on the need to rethink drug policies, mass incarceration for these types of crimes, even when they are non-violent and low level, continues to increase in the continent.
Read MoreThe pressures that healthy food activists face
Aggressive, illegal and corrupt tactics by the industries they oppose.
Read MoreCall for applications to the fifth Global Action-Research Workshop is now open
The theme of Dejusticia’s fifith annual Global Action-Research Workshop in 2017 will be reopening civil society spaces in the Global South. Dejusticia invites applications from young professionals from the Global South who are engaged in advocacy around this theme until the 31st of March
Read MoreFiscal policy is a tool to fight poverty: communicated to the IACHR
Dejusticia and other organizations presented this press release to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), which offers some comments from civil society to the Commission’s preliminary report on Poverty and Human Rights in the Americas. The group of organizations welcome the initiative of the Commission to produce this report. We also emphasize the urgency of having normative standards that, at the inter-American level, serve as concrete parameters for analyzing the efforts of States to phase out poverty and extreme poverty.
Read MoreWhat is the balance of the constitutional reform project on the JEP?
On February 14, Rodrigo Uprimny participated in the hearing convened by the First Committee of the Senate to discuss the constitutional reform project that creates the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) and regulates the special treatment of the Public Force. This reform is two debates from being approved by the Senate. Find here the document on which your intervention was based and which gives an overview of this project
Read MoreThe Integral System of Truth, Justice, Reparation and Non-Repetition, as the axis of the purposes of coexistence and peace: joint statement
The civil society organizations and academics who subscribe to this document agree that we are facing a unique opportunity for the changes and adjustments that our democracy requires to definitively overcome the causes and consequences of the armed conflict and to guarantee the stability and durability of peace.
Read MoreFive points that concern us about the Special Jurisdiction for Peace and the special treatment of the public force
The House of Representatives has already approved the constitutional reform that creates the Special Peace Jurisdiction (JEP) and regulates the special treatment to the public force. This project, which will give life to the transitional justice mechanism to investigate and punish the crimes committed during the conflict, is two debates in the Senate from becoming a reality.
Read MoreJoint communiqué on the implementation of the Peace Agreement in the territories with coca and marijuana crops in Colombia
Dejusticia, the Transnational Institute of the Netherlands, WOLA and OCDI-Indepaz sign joint communiqué on anti-drug policy in the implementation of the peace agreement.
Read MorePress Release on the Draft Legislative Act of the Integral System of Truth, Justice, Reparation and Non-Repetition
Academics and organizations, including Dejusticia, sign a communiqué to present analysis on the political convention and constitutional justification of the Draft Legislative Act 02 of 2016 Chamber, accumulated with the Draft Legislative Act 03 of 2016, which among other things creates the Comprehensive System of Truth, Justice, Reparation and Non-Repetition, in what includes the JEP and regulates the special criminal treatment for state agents.
