Where are these so-called monsters born?
We refuse to believe that a “normal” person can become a perpetrator capable of raping and brutally murdering a girl, impaling a woman or burning her body with excessive cruelty.
Read MoreAnticlimatic Trump
Trump’s electoral victory is anticlimatic in two ways, as I explained in another op-ed for Semana Sostenible.
Read MoreWho should pay more taxes in the post-conflict?
The government has strived to keep discussions on the Peace Accord and tax reform separate: it says that with or without an agreement, reform is needed to fill the huge fiscal gap left by falling oil and other natural resource prices.
Read MoreEntrenching the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights: Can the Inter-American System Help?
In the Case of the Kaliña and Lokono Peoples v. Suriname, decided in November, 2015, the Inter-American Court relied on the GPs and other international instruments in order to determine whether Suriname had violated its obligations under the American Convention. This event, while seemingly small, increases the legitimacy of the GPs as international norms.
Read MoreEntrenching the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights: Can the Inter-American System Help?
In effect, by using the Guiding Principles as a guide for the state of international law in the context of business and human rights, the Court turned the weak-kneed “should” language in Principle 18, into a requirement that the State was expected to have ensured.
Read MoreProgressive endorsement (II)
The solid endorsement of the new peace accord by Congress has been a very important step for the beginning of peace implementation.
Read MoreTo say without saying
Documentaries are a dialogue with reality, both in what they say and show as well as in what they keep silent.
Read MoreTaxes in the sugar republic
It makes sense that if an idea is criticized by both extremes, it must have something good. What peace could not do, the sugary drinks tax achieved. The tax is being debated in Congress and brought together senators like Iván Duque and Jorge Enrique Robledo, which resist with equal force the measure.
Read MoreThis is how the winter of the new inquisition has arrived
After ten years of spring for the rights of lesbians, gays, bisexuals, trans and intersex (LGBTI), we have entered the winter of the new inquisition. If something was reborn and consolidated itself during 2016 in Colombia, it was homophobia and transphobia.
Read MoreThe false publicity of sodas in Colombia
The strategy has associated sugary drinks with a healthy lifestyle, whether it has been through sponsoring sports teams or making them seem “cures” for hangovers.
Read MoreDejusticia’s Citizen Interventions and Lawsuits in 2015
For Dejusticia, 2015 was an important year. These were some of our most prominent lawsuits.
Read MoreHuman Rights Organizations Demand Justice for the Victims of Bagua and a Fair Trial for the Defendants
In the coming days, it is expected that a judgment will be rendered in the so-called “Devil’s Curve” trial against 53 people.
Read MoreConstitutional Court Reaffirms Right to Health of Sexual Assault Survivors, Including Abortion
From today the government is obliged to guarantee, without need of a legal complaint, access to free, immediate, confidential, dignified, and holistic services.
Read MoreHuman Rights Organizations Demand Justice for Victims in Bagua and Fair Trials for those Detained
It’s the only way to guarantee the right to truth, justice, reparations for victims and their families.
Read MoreDejusticia and BHRRC present groundbreaking coal report at COP 21
Coal industry expands in developing world, linked to abuses
Read MoreStatement on upcoming Venezuelan elections
Call for a Robust UNASUR Electoral Mission to Venezuela.
Read MoreStatement on upcoming Venezuelan elections
Call for a Robust UNASUR Electoral Mission to Venezuela.
Read MoreCoal Industry Expands in Developing World Linked to Abuses
Report claims despite its decline in the West, coal industry is growing in the developing world widely associated with poverty and displacement.
Read MoreReport about the Coal Industry’s Human Rights Impacts
The research conducted by Dejusticia and BHRRC is now available to the public in www.coalinthesouth.org
Read MoreReport about the Administration of Criminal and Prison Policy
The Monitoring Commission, in which Dejusticia takes part, to the Colombian Constitutional Court’s T-388 Ruling presented its first report.
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