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 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.
Read MoreNational Coalition in Favor of Drug Policy Reform in Colombia
A group of civil society organizations (NGOs, grassroots organizations, academic sectors, think tanks, and researchers) have come together with the purpose of creating a national coalition in favor of reforming drug policy in Colombia.
Read MoreNetwork of Land Restitution Monitoring Organizations Support Territorial Rights and Restitution Policy
The organizations and people who make up this Territorial Rights and Land Restitution Monitoring Organizations Network express out general support for the territorial rights and land restitution policy.
Read MoreOver 1,000 Leaders Worldwide Call for End to “Disastrous” Drug War, Ahead of UN Special Session
Former Presidents of Mexico, Colombia, Brazil, Chile, Nigeria, Cape Verde, Switzerland & Poland; Former Prime Ministers of Greece, Hungary & The Netherlands Join With Distinguished Scholars, Celebrities, Clergy, Business Leaders, Elected Officials, and Others in Calling for Alternatives to Prohibitionist Drug Control Policies.
Read MoreDejusticia Intervenes in IACHR Public Hearing regarding Measures to Reduce Pre-Trial Detention in Latin America
This Tuesday April 5th 9AM Dejusticia, alongside other organizations, will intervene regarding the issue of women, prisons, and drug offenses.
Read MoreImpunity for Sexual Violence Associated with the Armed Conflict Persists
This is the conclusion of the Sixth Monitoring Report of the Constitutional Court’s Ruling 092 of 2008 and Ruling 009 of 2015.
Read MoreCoadyuvancia in Favor of the Constitutionality of the Popular Consultation in Ibagué
In this coadyuvancia text we defend the constitutionality of the popular consultation in Ibagué through the analysis of two legal issues.
Read MoreUNGASS 2016: The Challenge of Rethinking Drug Policy
Studies show the negative human rights and public health impact of current drug policy in the region. It’s time to reconsider them.
Read MoreThe Council of State Maintains in Force the “Trans Decree” for the Correction of People’s Gender in the Civil Registry
The Court ruled to maintain the fast and easy procedure that the Decree 1227 of 2015 established.
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