The Amnesty Law: a First Step
On Friday, December 30th, the government promulgated Law 1820 of 2016 or the Amnesty, Pardon, and Special Treatment Law. This law was published as the first project that used the constitutional reform known as fast track for projects related to the implementation of the peace process.
Read MoreThe good judge Brandeis
Let’s pretend that it is 2025 and we can already scan brains to know, for instance, if their owners have been trained by ISIS.
Read MoreA school without walls of intolerance
These new times really require us to listen to others who are radically different from us and try to understand their reasons, their beliefs and their life stories.
Read MoreThe reduction of violence in the year that ends
The year that ends will be for many bitterly remembered.
Read MoreWhite collar corruption
This year began with serious corruption news in soccer, in Petrobras and in the food supply of La Guajira. With the passing of months, things did not change.
Read MoreMichelle and Madonna
In this op-ed, I will take the liberty of making two recommendations to those who want to take advantage of the holidays to listen or repeat two powerful and inspiring speeches. For me, the best two speeches given this year.
The magistrate and her last decision
In Colombia, there are increasingly more judges that step away from a rigid vision of the law, seeking to improve the human condition and the rule of law through intelligence, balance, integrity, patience, persuasion, and commitment.
Read MoreCensorship, a new ingredient in the sugary drinks debate?
Through a tutela initiative, citizens want that the television commercial on the possible health effects of sugary drinks that the Industry and Commerce Oversight Office prohibited is played again.
Read MoreA “Christianly correct” referendum
Last week, the Senate’s plenary approved in a second debate the proposal of a referendum by senator Viviane Morales, which aims to limit adoption only to heterosexual couples, excluding single individuals (both heterosexual and homosexual) and same-sex couples. Throughout a sad debate, the discriminatory spirit of this initiative became visible.
Trump and the future of human rights
Donald Trump’s presidency creates serious risks and challenges for human rights globally, but this victory could have an unexpected positive effect: to push the human rights movement to carry out transformations in its architecture and changes in its strategy that were imperative even before Trump, and that are now urgent.
Read MoreVenezuela Should Repeal the Emergency Decree in Force
Dejusticia signed alongside 124 organizations asking the international community to put pressure on Venezuela and its state of emergency decree.
Read MoreInternational Meeting: Land Restitution and Territorial Rights
The meeting, organized by the National University, Dejusticia, the Office for Restitution, and the Swiss Embassy, seeks to encourage exchanges of reflections and local, national, and international experiences about land restitution processes and territorial rights from the approaches of “Do No Harm” and Transitional Justice.
Read MoreInternational Conference on Diversity in Public Employment
This conference seeks to encourage training and exchange of experiences about the benefits garnered by understanding the management of diversity in public employment as a strategic value that improves the public administration of a country.
Read MoreIdeas for Putting the Peace Accords to a Popular Vote
The Depenalization of Abortion in Colombia: Ten Years of a Right Unfulfilled
Ten years have passed since the ruling depenalizing abortion and the paronama in Colombia has not changed significantly. Dejusticia has always been committed to this issue and continues to work to overcome the obstacles that have presented themsleves in the execution of this ruling.
Read MoreA Pronouncement from the Coalition for Drug Reform Policy
An intent to reactivate fumigations
Read MoreRepairing Victims: Lessons Learned from a Study on Return
In recent days the National Univesity published a study titled “Challenges to the Integration of Returned Communities: Analysis of the Case of Las Palmas, Bolívar”. Although the study aimed to propose a tool that would allow monitoring and measurement of returned communities’ needs in terms of social capital, we will focus on the figures detailing inequality and the possible impact of these on the process of transformative reparations.
Read MoreFor Defender’s Day in Stockholm Dejusticia Worked with Activists from Some of the Most Repressive Countries in the World
Pressuring human rights defenders is a global trend today, both in authoritarian and democratic regimes. Dejusticia works on this issue internationally.
Read MoreThe Digital Gods
At the center of this debate, beyond the capitalist argument of the mobile giant, is the protection of citizens’ right to privacy. Is privacy an absolute right that must never be compromised, not even to allow the state to fulfill its security obligations? Of course not.
Read MoreThe Trouble Caused by Seeking to Replace the Higher Council of the Judiciary
Was the remedy worse than the disease? Infographic.
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