Litigation

Dejusticia intervenes before the Inter-American Court on Human Rights in the case of a migrant woman in Bolivia who was sterilized without her informed consent.

Dejusticia intervened in an action for protection filed by the Committee for the Defense of Water and the Santurbán Páramo, against the Ministry of Environment, Housing and Territorial Development, which is currently being reviewed by the Constitutional Court. 

Last March 30th there was a hearing about the complaint presented by the Nation’s Public Prosecutor, Eduardo Montealegre against the Balance of Powers Reform. This was Rodrigo Uprimny’s contribution.

Dejusticia intervened in the process testing the constitutionality of the bill that regulates the plesbiscite putting the final peace accord to a popular vote to end the conflict and build a stable and lasting peace. This synthesizes the arguments of this intervention.

We intervened before the Constitution Court litigating the unconstitutionality of Numera 3 of Article 171 of Law 1607 of 2012, that modifies taxes and establish a sales tax.

Last week, Dejusticia presented an intervention before the First Section of the Council of State and asked to keep in force Executive Order 1227 of 2015, which regulates the procedure for amending a person’s gender in the civil registry.

César Rodríguez Garavito, Dejusticia’s director, intervened as an expert witness in the first case that debates forced work in the Americas, regarding the complaint of slave work in Brazil.

Dejusticia intervened before the Constitutional Court to respectfully request that it declares the constitutionality of the “beginning at birth” language of the Civil Code’s article 90.

Intervention claims unconstitutionality of Criminal Code regulations that do not consider gender identity in offenses and cannot justify harsher sentences due to discrimination and harrassment.