Post-UNGASS
The “United Nations General Assembly Special Session” about dugs (known as UNGASS) leaves a mixed balance for those that consider the international prohibition regime irrational and unjust and hence should be deeply reformed.
Read MoreThe Law for Enemies
Dilma Rousseff, President of Brazil, is accused of fiscal coverup and bad management of public accounts.
Read MoreEnvironment for Aliens
There is two ways to debate the government’s reversal and Ecopetrol president’s comments in the case allowing for the drilling of oil in Macarena.
Read MoreThe Violence Behind the Gold Route
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While all mining creates various problems, including environmental and social, these problems are magnified with illegal gold mining practices.
Read MoreThe Battle over Institutions
Next year institutions charged with the protection of rights and the constitution are at play.
Read MoreEradicating the War on Drugs
Colombia has to eradicate its own war against drugs and redirect its resources to consolidating democracy and development in rural areas.
Read MoreLand Restitution: A Matter of Justice
It has been a difficult process and there is much more to do. But the criticisms by the Solicitor General and the ranchers’ union do not have any basis when, in the contrary, they should have to double their efforts to repair the damages of such a brutal war.
Read MoreRestitution, To Fertilize or Bury?
It is valid to warn that land restitution could affect poor rural communities that occupy a piece of restituted land, as the problem of “secondary occupants” is complex and deserved to be discussed.
Read MoreThe Injustice of Disorder
The Defense Minister Luis Carlos Villegas said last Tuesday that the “bacrim” have turned into small criminal organizations that, although they have the capacity to intimidate, are not paramilitaries, but rather straightforward criminality.
Read MoreWill There Be No Post-Conflict for Peñalosa?
While Colombia looks to the post-conflict, putting peace initiatives on the agenda, the project of the development plan “Bogotá for Everyonw” 2016-2019 does not take this national goal into account.
Read MoreThe Wiwa People and the Rancheria Dam
In this mini documentary, Dejusticia and the Wiwa people describe the effects of the construction of a dam without prior consulation on the affected communities. It shows the devastating affects of the dam on the lives and territority of the Wiwa People.
Read MoreConflict, protests and peace
Today we are experiencing two concurrent events. First, we are witnessing the negotiations with the guerillas, which have a good possibility of success. Second, we are living through a time of very intense social unrest, as the farmers’ strike demonstrated. ¿How do we interpret the simultaneity of these processes?
Read MoreWhat is most important for the Sarayaku People?
Dejusticia asks members of the Sarayaku People what is most important to them.
Read MoreThe meaning of Sumak Kawsay
Dejusticia asks members of the Sarayaku People what “sumak kawsay” means.
Read MoreLessons from the Sarayaku People for Other Indigenous Peoples
Dejusticia asks members of the Sarayaku People what lessons they can share with other indigenous people of the region.
Read MoreSumak Kawsay: The Sarayaku Case (short version)
The Sarayaku vs. Ecuador case began in 2003, when the Poeple of Sarayaku filed a complaint with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. They accused the Ecuadorian government of authorizing a petroleum company to explore for petroleum on their indigenous territory in the Amazon, in violation of their right to prior consultation.
Read MoreSumak Kawsay: The Sarayaku Case (long version)
In this documentary, Dejusticia and Canal Justicia follow one of the most important cases on environmental conflicts and indigenous rights before the Inter-American Human Rights Court in Latin America: Sarayaku v. Ecuador.
Read MoreWhat is the Sierra Nevada of Santa Marta?
The Sierra Nevada of Santa Marta is a disputed territory. The resources found there attract both legal and illegal actors seeking to control the area. In this documentary members of the Wiwa and Kankuamo People explain what the Sierra means to them.
Read MorePeace framework: pending discussion about prison
The ruling of the Constitutional Court supports the dialogues, however it is not a free pass to get out of prison.
Read MoreNational Survey of legal needs
Commissioned by the Ministry of Justice and the World Bank, this survey assesses the state of access to justice in urban Colombia, identifies obstacles, and offers recommendations to improve access to justice and facilitate conflict resolution.
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