We present an amicus curae in the case in reference with the aim of asking the Office to protect the collective right to the environment, and qualify the decision to allow a window for mining title requests until the conditions for which the moratorium was initially instituted are overcome and to further consider this in future extensions of said moratorium.

Dejusticia joins the call of several international organizations asking Venezuela to stop harrassing human rights defenders. 

Taking into account the ongoing discussion in Mexico regarding the application of classified information in investigations in preliminary inquiry phases and declassifying said information when dealing with grave violations of human rights, stipulated in the Law of Federal Transparency and Access to Public Government Information of 2002, Dejusticia presented an amicus curiae in the case taken by the Supreme Court of Mexico regarding the writ of constitutional protection 661/2014 presented by the Foundation for Justice and Democratic Rule of Law, where we analyze the international standards applicable to the Mexican state in relation with the definition of the category of grave human rights violations.

We ask the Constitutional Court to declare the inconstitutionality of that article because it allows property that has a predefined and important environmental function to be used for mining activities automatically.

Submitted with Mauricio Albarracín Caballero, Eliana Robles Pallares y Mávilo Nicolás Giraldo, Colombia Diversa’s executive director and members of the litigation team.

New York. February 9, 2015. The International Network for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ESCR-Net), a global network of over 220 groups and 50 individual advocates from around the world working to secure economic and social justice through human rights, has requested leave from the U.S. District Court to be recognized as amicus curiae[1] in the case of Lyda et al. v. City of Detroit[2]in support of residents challenging the City of Detroit’s decision to cut off water supply to thousands of households unable to pay their bills.

Presented by the Due Process of Law Foundation, Human Rights Center of the Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador, the Center for the Study of Law, Justice, and Society- Dejusticia.

30 years ago Miguel Ángel Díaz was forcefully disappeared in Puerto Boyacá with participation of a DAS agent. He was one of the first victims of the persecution against the Patriotic Union.

The Constitutional Court has announced that if one of its rulings constitutes an ostensible, proven, significant, and transcendental violation of due process, it itself will proceed to declare the annulment of that decision.