Justice to Achieve Peace: Heinous Crimes, the Right to Negotiated Peace and Justice
By Luz María Sánchez Duque, Nelson Camilo Sánchez León, Rodrigo Uprimny Yepes |
This book seeks to contribute to the difficult debate on how to reconcile the imperatives of justice and the rights of the victims, with the internal dynamics of a peace negotiation.
The Implementation of the Partial Decriminalization of Abortion in Colombia
By Annika Dalén |
This document identifies some of the biggest obstacles that the partial decriminalization of abortion faces in Colombia.
The Right to Government: The Legal Effects of Institutional Apartheid in Colombia
By José Rafael Espinosa Restrepo, Mauricio García Villegas |
This book defends the idea that people living in isolated territories have a right to institutional assistance; in other words, they have a right to government. Not just to any government, but one that that protects their dignity and their rights.
Far from the Law: Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy in the Colombian Health Care System
By Catherin García Nuñez, Diana Esther Guzmán Rodríguez, Nathalia Sandoval Rojas, Nina Chaparro González, Silvia Rojas Castro |
This study intends is contribute to the empirical research on voluntary interruption of pregnancy (VIP).
The Regulation of Voluntary Interruptions of Pregnancy in Colombia
By Annika Dalén, Diana Esther Guzmán Rodríguez, Paola Molano Ayala |
This document describes the current status of voluntary interruption of pregnancy (VIP) regulation in Colombia.
Racial Discrimination at Work: an Experimental Study in Bogotá
By Dejusticia |
The denial of the racial discrimination in Colombia and the lack of measures to combat it, is partly due to the lack of reliable data on the disadvantages the afro-colombian population face in the workforce, the education system and in housing.
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Racial Discrimination in the Labor Market: An Experimental Study in Bogotá
By César Rodríguez-Garavito (Retired in 2019), Sebastián Villamizar Santamaría |
This paper documents the first Colombian quantitative study on racial discrimination in the labor market, specifically in Bogotá. The study finds that the skin color has a direct and negative effect on the chances of finding a job.
Between Stereotypes: Labor Trajectories for Men and Women in Colombia
By Annika Dalén, Diana Esther Guzmán Rodríguez |
This document explores the labor trajectories of men and women. It finds that strategic decisions, as well as formal and informal labor market norms, are based on images, stereotypes and ideas about gender that leads to a division of labor by gender.
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Public Order and Racial Profiling: Afro-Colombian Experiences with the Cali Police
By Yukyan Lam |
This book documents the Police Forces' treatment of the Afro-Colombian population in Cali.
Insufficient Judicial Independence, Deformed Preventive Prison: The cases of Argentina, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru
By Carolina Bernal Uribe, Miguel Emilio La Rota |
In this study we analyze the main pressures and interferences to which Colombian judges and prosecutors are subject when they have to make decisions regarding the imposition of preventive detention
National Survey of Legal Needs
By Miguel Emilio La Rota Uprimny, Rodrigo Uprimny Yepes, Sebastián Lalinde Ordóñez |
Commissioned by the Ministry of Justice and the World Bank, this survey assesses the state of access to justice in urban Colombia, identifies obstacles, and offers recommendations to improve access to justice and facilitate conflict resolution.
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Institutions and Drug-trafficking: the Judicial Geography of Drug-Related Crimes in Colombia
By Felipe Jiménez Ángel, José Rafael Espinosa Restrepo, Mauricio García Villegas |
This text shows how, in addition to being disproportionately punitive, the way the government implements its drug laws is discriminatory. Drug laws are applied in certain geographic regions more than others, and some crimes are prosecuted more than others.
State intelligence gathering on the internet and social media: the case of Colombia
By Lucía Camacho, Daniel Ospina Celis, Juan Carlos Upegui Mejía |
In this report, we explore this subject by drawing on the “Secret Dossiers” case published in 2020 by Semana magazine, which shows how the Colombian state exploits social media and the internet in order to monitor and profile individuals.
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Against the Current: Human Rights and Climate Justice in the Global South
By Jessica Corredor Villamil |
Against the Current is the result of the collective effort of participants from Dejusticia’s seventh annual Global Action-Research Workshop for Young Human Rights Advocates.
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Under Surveillance: (Mis)use of Technologies in Emergency Responses
By Dejusticia |
Surveillance technologies exacerbated the impacts of Covid-19 emergency measures on civic space by allowing governments to collect fine-grained data about individuals while also working across large scales of information, in a way that has been unprecedented in the history of global pandemics.
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Inteligencia estatal en internet y redes sociales: la privacidad bajo amenaza
By Lucía Camacho, Daniel Ospina Celis, Juan Carlos Upegui Mejía |
La inteligencia estatal hace mucho que se trasladó a la internet y las redes sociales. Esto, por supuesto, representa riesgos adicionales al ejercicio del derecho a la privacidad en línea que ya enfrenta serios obstáculos por cuenta de prácticas nocivas que desempeñan otros actores.
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Analysis of a tax on sugar-sweetened beverages in the Colombian labor market
By Randy Sebastián Villalba Arango, Diana Guarnizo |
El impuesto a las bebidas azucaradas ha sido una política de salud pública implementada para desincentivar los altos niveles de consumo de estas bebidas. Sin embargo, según la industria, esta medida promueve el despido masivo de trabajadores. ¿Eso es cierto?
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Strategic Litigation Manual: From Theory to Practice, Lessons from Colombia & Lebanon
By Gabriela Eslava, Mauricio Albarracín, Maryluz Barragán |
The manual presents the theory of strategic litigation with examples of real cases brought by Dejusticia and The Legal Agenda. We encourage readers to continue to add to it with each new case they have the opportunity to work on.
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Fiscal policy in the regulation of adult-use cannabis in Colombia
By Alejandro Rodríguez Llach, Luis Felipe Cruz, Isabel Pereira Arana |
Drugs are not the Devil, but nor are they child’s play. A drug policy that would be respectful of human rights and safeguard public health must lie at an intermediate point between full liberalization and the prohibition currently in place.
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Reimagining the Future of Human Rights
By Jessica Corredor Villamil |
The chapters in this book offer a snapshot of the current state of Human Rights that can help guide our work as activists and researchers.
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Migration and Decent Work: Challenges for the Global South
By Lucía Ramírez Bolívar, Jessica Corredor Villamil |
This book seeks to strenghten the Human Rights movement through collaboration and the sharing of experiences. The diversity of voices featured here offers a look at migration based on and geared toward the Global South.
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Civil Resistance Against 21st Century Athoritarianism
By Dejusticia |
Thorugh various narratives, the authors seek to recognize new spaces for struggle —such as political activism— to develop action-research tools in a context of crisis.
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Gender discrimination in Football. Building a Toolbox Toward Gender Equity in the Beautiful Game
By Dejusticia |
As the most popular sport worldwide, football (or soccer) may be the poster child for lingering gender disparities in sport.
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Data Feast: Enterprises and Personal Data in Latin America
By Vivian Newman Pont, Daniel Ospina Celis, Juan Carlos Upegui Mejía |
Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, and Microsoft now possess an ability to reconfigure the behaviour of individuals, clients, and citizens globally. How Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Mexico are responding?
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