Justice Mosaics: How Context Shapes Transitional Justice in Fractured Societies
By Rodrigo Uprimny Yepes, Nelson Camilo Sánchez León |
Two of our researchers contribute a chapter to a book by the International Center for Transitional Justice.
Read more Peace, everyone’s business! Corporate accountability in transitional justice: lessons for Colombia
By Nelson Camilo Sánchez León, |
The report includes a comparative study of eight countries (Argentina, Brazil, South Africa, Guatemala, East Timor, Sierra Leone and Liberia) that used transitional justice to judge crimes by corporate actors during armed conflicts.
Read more Transitional justice and action without harm: a reflection on the land restitution process
By Dejusticia |
This document compiles the reflections made in recent years by the Transitional Justice team of Dejusticia and the Action without Harm team of the National University of Colombia.
Read more Reimagining Human Rights
By César Rodríguez-Garavito (Retired in 2019) |
Our Director, César Rodríguez, published the article "Reimagining Human Rights" in the Journal of International Law and International Affairs.
Read more Social Rights Judgments and the Politics of Compliance: Making it Stick (Cambridge University Press)
By César Rodríguez Garavito (Se retiró en 2019) |
The book “Social Rights Judgments and the Politics of Compliance”, edited by César Rodríguez Garavito, director of Dejusticia, Malcolm Langford (Univ. Oslo) and Julieta Rossi (Univ. Lanús) was just published.
Read more Access to intelligence and counterintelligence archives in the framework of the post-agreement
By Ana María Ramírez, Maria Paula Ángel, Mauricio Albarracín, Rodrigo Uprimny Yepes, Vivian Newman Pont |
In this text, we offer options so that transitional justice mechanisms and society at large can have access to intelligence and counterintelligence archives, which relate to the armed conflict in Colombia.
Read more Environmental peace: challenges and proposals for the post-accord
By César Rodríguez-Garavito (Retired in 2019), Diana Rodríguez Franco, Helena Durán |
Through the Ideas for Peacebuilding collection, Dejusticia seeks to contribute to this task through thematic documents that offer diagnoses and proposals on some of the central institutional challenges of this new stage. In this book, we analyze the impact of the conflict on the environment and the challenges that arise in the peacebuilding stage.
Read more Negotiating from the margins: The political participation of women in the peace processes of Colombia (1982-2016)
By Nina Chaparro González, Margarita Martínez Osorio |
This book offers analyses and recommendations regarding the participation of women in peace processes so that peace agreements can become long-term social pacts that are both inclusive and committed to justice and equality.
Read more Peace territories: the construction of the local state in Colombia
By Javier Eduardo Revelo Rebolledo, José Rafael Espinosa Restrepo, Mauricio García Villegas, Natalia Duarte, Nicolás Torres Echeverry |
This book offers diagnoses and proposals surrounding one key challenge of peace building: carrying out out a large national state-building project on the periphery of the country.
Read more Persons Deprived of Liberty for Drug Offenses
By Dejusticia |
The research of the Collective on Persons Detained, Processed and Imprisoned presents statistical information about detention and imprisonment for drug offenses in Latin America and advocates for an overhaul of drug laws and their implementation in Latin America. — La evidencia existente muestra que, a nivel mundial, la política de drogas ha implicado diversos costos…
Read more Democracy, Justice & Society: Ten Years of Research at Dejusticia
By María Adelaida Ceballos Bedoya, Mauricio García Villegas |
This book collects the essential from the texts on justice elaborated during the last decade in the Center for the Study of Law, Justice and Society - Dejusticia.
Extractivism versus human rights: chronicles of the mined fields in the Global South
By César Rodríguez-Garavito (Retired in 2019) |
Un nuevo acercamiento a los derechos humanos: escritura reflexiva por autores activistas de organizaciones defensoras que considera el potencial, los logros y desafíos de su práctica.
Read more 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.
Read more 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.
Read more 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.
Read more 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.
Read more 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?
Read more 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.
Read more 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.
Read more 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.
Read more 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.
Read more 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.
Read more 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.
Read more 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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