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“Seville’s commitment” must not remain on paper
What we saw and heard in the previous forums—especially in the feminist and civil society space—made it clear to us that grassroots mobilization is key.
By Mariana Matamoros, Sergio Chaparro Hernández | | Financing for Development, Human Rights, ONU
Climate budgets
El presupuesto no es solo una hoja de cálculo. Es una herramienta política que define qué se protege y a quién se prioriza.
By Mariana Matamoros | | climate budgets, Tax policy, Taxes and climate change
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Colombian lawyers reject Constituent Assembly in Venezuela
By Dejusticia |
This is the message that a group of Colombian researchers, professors and ex-judges put forward in a public letter, replicating similar initiatives by constitutionalists from other Latin American countries. In ...
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Prison is not the only sanction in transitional justice mechanisms
By César Rodríguez-Garavito (Retired in 2019) | | Corte Constitucional, FARC, Gobierno, Jurisdicción Especial para la Paz, Proceso de paz
The design of the Comprehensive System of Truth, Justice, Reparation and Guarantees of Non-Repetition, which is part of the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP), is in accordance with the 1991 ...
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Dejusticia defended the Decree that allows the Court to suspend ordinary processes terms to focus on the implementation of peace
By César Rodríguez-Garavito (Retired in 2019), Rodrigo Uprimny Yepes | | Acuerdo de paz, Corte Constitucional, Implementación Acuerdo de Paz
The implementation of the Final Peace Agreement gives the Constitutional Court a significantly higher workload than usual, since all rules (Decrees-Law, laws and constitutional reforms) must be reviewed to determine ...
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The reform that gives the Peace Accord stability and legal certainty is constitutional
By César Rodríguez-Garavito (Retired in 2019), Rodrigo Uprimny Yepes, Diana Isabel Güiza Gómez | | Acuerdo de paz, Estabilidad jurídica, FARC, Gobierno
In a document delivered to the Constitutional Court on July 14, 2017, Dejusticia defended the constitutionality of the reform that confers stability and legal certainty to the Final Peace Agreement. ...
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The 1991 Constitution is open to peace and the profound transformations that it will require
By Rodrigo Uprimny Yepes | | Corte Constitucional, Justicia transicional, Proceso de paz, Transiciones Constitucionales
During times of political transition from war to peace, constitutionalism must be sensitive to the political context, so that it facilitates the profound transformations that society requires to make peace ...
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The use of jail went out of proportion
By Luis Felipe Cruz | | Cárceles, Delitos de drogas, Política de drogas
Counter-narcotics strategies exploited the selectivity of criminal law to turn drug policy into a war against the weakest: against those who perform logistical tasks in the drug trade (such as ...
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I don’t care if they call me a dictator.
By Nina Chaparro González | | bukele, Democracia, 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, ONG, 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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We travel with 20 indigenous activists of the world to the heart of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta. Listen to this story about the Kankuama Resistance.
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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.
