Dejusticia, the Global Justice and Human RightsProgram at Universidad de los Andes, and the Law School Clinics at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Perú and Stanford presented an amicus curiae challenging the constitutionality of guidelines regulating the Official Data Base of Indigenous and Native Peoples in Peru.

Dejusticia intervened before the Constitutional Court in a petition challenging certain provisions of the legislative act that established the Legal Framework for Peace, considering that the Legal Framework does not violate the Constitution, but rather restricts certain constitutional principles in favor of transitional justice processes.

More than fifty civil society organizations from the Americas presented a letter to the governments gathered this week in Guatemala, for the General Assembly meeting of the OAS. In the letter the organizations urgently call for putting human rights protection at the center of the debate over drug policies.

Dejusticia, Sisma Mujer and the Red Nacional de Mujeres challenged the selection of the Superintendent of Surveillance and Private Security as a violation of the Quotas Law, arguing that the President had an obligation to appoint a woman for the post, and yet appointed a man.

Dejusticia intervened in a challenge to article 9 of the Victims’ Law which provided that reparations in judicial proceedings must be equal to those in administrative proceedings.

Dejusticia challenges the election of Dr. Pedro Munar Cadena as judge of the High Judicial Council, as his appointment violated article 126 of the Constitution.

Dejusticia, the Colombian Commission of Jurists, the Center for Constitutional Studies PLURAL, the Corporation Viva la Ciudadanía and Foro por Colombia challenged the election of Dr. Alejandro Ordoñez as Inspector General before the Supreme Court of Administrative Law (Conseil d´Etat)

Dejusticia challenged the appointment of Francisco Javier Ricaurte Gómez to the High Council of the Judicary because certain magistrates of the Council violated article 126 of the Constitution by naming Ricaurte to a public position when he had previously participated in their appointment to the Council.

The challenge requests that article 44 of Law 1551 of 2012 be declared unconstitutional because the norm violates various norms related to prior consultation of indigenous groups, the right to self-government, and creates a new territorial division and authority not contemplated in the Constitution.