We intervened in the writ of constitutional protection instated by Mission Colombia Foundation in representation of the Arhuaco indigenous community due to the harms caused by the construction of a military base and more than 480 communication antenas and facts regarding this community’s ancestral territory.

This amicus curiae seeks to support the actions of the Mayan communities from Pach-Chan and Canabchen to ask that their right to prior consultation be respected in the case against Monsanto’s genetically modified soy crops.

See the recording of the public hearing regarding the case against Colombia due to discrimination based on sexual orientation.

This past September 11th, Dejusticia presented before the Constitutional Court a request for it to hold a public hearing regarding the case of the decree that regulated indigenous territories (Decree 1953 of 2014).

The International Network for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ESCR-Net) and Dejusticia presented an intervention in favor of the lawyer Julia Cabello, executive coordinator of Tierraviva, who was sued by the Minister Gladys Bareiro de Módica.

By Colombia Diversa and Dejusticia’s request, the Constitutional Court ordered a public hearing on July 30th, 2015, regarding the cases of constitutional writ of protection petitions from same-sex couples in review by that Court.

We intervened in a lawsuit arguing the unconstitutionality of the text “also when inflicted with a mental illness” of the 66th article of the Infant and Adolescent Code that regulates parent’s consent to give up their child for adoption.

Dejusticia intervened in a lawsuit arguing the unconstitutional nature of laws that regulate military service for trans people. For the plaintiffs these laws ignore their gender identity. Dejusticia has asked the Court to declare itself inhibited from releasing a substantive ruling.

Dejusticia alongside four women’s human rights organizations filed a lawsuit that seeks to ameliorate the serious problems that survivors of sexual assault face in Colombia.