Defend the ICC: INCLO national human rights organizations call on states to protect international rule of law against United States attack
If left unanswered, it will set a precedent that will go beyond the ICC itself: that any country with sufficient power can threaten the institutions and individuals responsible for enforcing international law.
By Dejusticia | | Human Rights, ICC, International Criminal Court, International Justice, multilateralism, United States
Defending human rights around the world requires funding
Fiscal policy is no longer a purely economic issue; it has become the cornerstone of sustainable development.
By Mariana Matamoros | | CIDH, Derechos Humanos, Desigualdad, Global South, IACHR, Inequality, Justicia Fiscal, Public spending, Sustainable development., Tax cooperation, Tax justice, Tax policy
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The links between economic power and conflict: a major challenge for the Truth Commission
By Dejusticia | | Comisión de la verdad, Empresas, Verdad
What was the relationship of complicity between economic sectors and armed groups in the conflict like? In our "Increasing Accountability" report, we reconstruct and reveal new data on this phenomenon, ...
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Guatemala: Dejusticia intervenes in a process that seeks to protect the right to prior consultation of the Xinka people
By Carlos Andrés Baquero Díaz | | Consulta previa, Guatemala, minera Escobal, Minería, Xinka
Today, there is a case regarding the violation of the right of the Xinca indigenous community to free, prior and informed consultation and consent in Guatemala. During 2012 and 2013, ...
Lea más The Supreme Court rules in favor of peasants
By Dejusticia | | Campesinado, Censo Poblacional 2018, Tutela campesina
The Supreme Court of Justice made a decision regarding the legal action that 1,770 male and female peasants filed last November, where they asked to be included in the population ...
Lea más The foreign minister’s silence on Colombians imprisoned in Venezuela
By Angélica María Cuevas Guarnizo | | Cárceles, Colombia, Human Rights, Venezuela
The Colombian-Venezuelan, Juan Pedro Lares, age 23, has been imprisoned for nearly six months in the El Helicoide prison in Caracas. His crime: being the son of a politician who ...
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The Inspector General’s Office intervened to support our legal action on climate change
By Dejusticia | | Generaciones futuras, Primera Tutela Cambio Climático, Tutela Cambio Climático
"There is no control over deforestation" ... "Deforestation in the Amazon directly affects global warming" ... "The depredation of vegetative species puts at risk and violates fundamental rights such as ...
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Victims and press after the war
By Vivian Newman Pont, Maria Paula Ángel, María Ximena Dávila | | Derechos de las víctimas, Libertad de expresión, Libertad de prensa
Thus, this document has the purpose of asking and answering, from a socio-legal perspective, the following question: How can the events related to the armed conflict and to the transition ...
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I don’t care if they call me a dictator.
By Nina Chaparro González | | bukele, Democracy, Dictadura, El Salvador, Program for strengthening - Others
During his six years in office, Bukele has consolidated his power, paving the way to become the dictator he appears to be announcing himself as.
Lea más NGOs at risk of global extinction
By Nina Chaparro González | | financiación internacional, NGO, Program for strengthening - Others
How can non-governmental organizations transform themselves? What were they like when they did not depend on international funding?
Lea más Colombia: going back to the original balance of justice
By Paola Molano Ayala | | gorillaz, JEP, Transitional Justice, Victims
There is a crucial aspect of Colombia’s transitional justice model that is worrying: the current inability of the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) to offer legal security to those who participated in the conflict, including in human rights violations, and have not been identified as among the most responsible. And making sure they also contribute to the satisfaction of the rights of the victims. The JEP must avoid keep moving towards maximalist approaches and go back to the balance in the Peace Agreement.
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Discover some of the documentary pieces that we have made. Indigenous resistance, migration of Venezuelans to Colombia and stories of women coca growers, are some of our topics of interest.
