Dejusticia litigated against the Decree 2691 of 2014 for violating the local government agencies’ and municipalities’ autonomy  to regulate land use and also ignores the environment’s important status in the national legal framework.

Camilo Sánchez, transitional justice research coordinator, presented an expert opinion about the administrative reparations program and the compliance of the Land Restitution and Victims’ Law to international standards before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, within the framework of the case “Yarce and others v. Colombia.”

Dejusticia intervened in the revision process of a writ of constitutional protection case due to the violation of the indigenous community Nasa’s right to prior consultation in Putumayo, resulting in the aereal fumigation with glysophate of illicit crops.

Dejusticia presented an amicus curiae before the First Court of the Trigésimo First Circuit District of San Francisco de Campeche in the state of Campeche, Mexico to support a process of constitutional protection in which the community of San Antonio de Ébula seeks to protect its fundamental rights after forced displacement in 2009.

Dejusticia presented an amicus curiae (a document that outlines a legal concept) to support the writ of constitutional protection proceeding filed by Sergio Urrego’s mother against his former school, the Gimnasio Castillo Campestre. Sergio Urrego was a young victim who committed suicide on September 5th, 2014 as a result of homophobic bullying he experienced in his school.

In the document, Dejusticia asked the Court to revoke the sentence referred to by the Second Section of the Council of State and protect the rights requested by Sergio’s mother.

We intervened before the Constitutional Court in a writ of constitutional protection case in which the plaintiff asks that El Tiempo and Google.com to erase and take down from their digital media and web searches all information related to a past criminal case she was implicated in that has expired.

The Constitutional Court in the T-063 Decision of 2005 protected the fundamental rights to human dignity, free development of personality, sexual and gender identity, and the legal personhood of trans women, who they previously asked to use a judicial process and present a medical certificate in order to change one’s sex on official identification documents. 

We presented an amicus curiae before the Constitutional Tribunal of the Dominican Republic in favor of the depenalization of abortion in the process that this court is considering to determine whether to preserve the reform to the Criminal Code that allows for abortion in three circumstances, thus protecting the life and integrity of Dominican women.

We ask the Justice Ministry, as the President of the National Narcotics Council, the Technical Secretary of that organization, and the Anti-Narcotics Director of the National Police, to immediately suspend all glifosate spraying operations in the Colombian territory, in application of the precautionary principle.