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State intelligence gathering on the internet and social media: the case of Colombia

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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Luchar Contra la Corriente

Against the Current: Human Rights and Climate Justice in the Global South

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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Misuse of technologies

Under Surveillance: (Mis)use of Technologies in Emergency Responses

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

Inteligencia estatal en internet y redes sociales: la privacidad bajo amenaza

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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impuesto bebidas

Analysis of a tax on sugar-sweetened beverages in the Colombian labor market

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

Strategic Litigation Manual: From Theory to Practice, Lessons from Colombia & Lebanon

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

Fiscal policy in the regulation of adult-use cannabis in Colombia

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

Reimagining the Future of Human Rights

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

Migration and Decent Work: Challenges for the Global South

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

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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football gender

Gender discrimination in Football. Building a Toolbox Toward Gender Equity in the Beautiful Game

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

Data Feast: Enterprises and Personal Data in Latin America

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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Ethno-Reparations: Ethnic Collective Justice and Reparations for Afro and Indigenous Communities in Colombia

This text begins by explaining the concept of "collective ethnic justice" and then offers practical guidance on how it can be achieved in practice by describing relevant principles and criteria found in Colombian and international law.

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Access to Justice: Cases of Business Human Rights Abuses

Access to justice and effective remedy have become a crucial element in the protection of human rights within the context of business activities, as well as an area of fundamental importance to judges and lawyers who aim to promote the rule of law and human rights.

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Systems Overload: Drug Laws and Prisons in Latin America

This paper demonstrates how drug policy in the country tended to a progressive hardening along the twentieth century and, notwithstanding, failed to be effective in reducing supply and in combating organized crime networks dedicated to trafficking.

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Altered State: Clientelism, Mafias and Institutional Weakness in Colombia

This book articulates a comprehensive vision of not only the the social and political effects of the paramilitary phenomenon in Colombia, but also of the institutional and legal weaknesses of the Colombian government, which has been captured by mafias and political actors.

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In Search of a Transformative and Participatory Concept of Reparations in the Context of Transitional Justice

This article aims to help overcome some of the limitations of the prevailing transitional justice approach.

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And they refounded the homeland… On how the mafia and politicians reconfigured the Colombian State

This publication discusses the implications of the capture of the Colombian State by illegal armed groups.

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Courts and Social Change: How the Constitutional Court Changed Forced Displacement in Colombia

What role do the courts play in a democracy? What kind of judicial interventions are required to promote public policies that effectively guarantee rights and encourage social change? This book answers these and other questions.

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Todo list: proposals for the formulation of public policies on reparations in Colombia

The purpose of this document is to initiate a discussion on mechanisms and policy options on which we could rely for the design and implementation of a restitution massive program. This proposal supports the idea of envisaging ample targets for a land restitution process to be successful. This would enable its coordination with other government measures of land ownership redistribution aimed at the transformation of agrarian relations in the country. Although our proposed program of restitution is not intended as a mechanism designed to achieve other objectives such as land reform or rural income generation, we understand that these three state actions must be intrinsically linked in order to produce transformative effects that allow the optimal development of the restitution process.
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Race and Human Rights in Colombia. Report on Racial Discrimination and Rights of Afro-Colombians

This work questions the myth of racial democracy in Colombia and is the full version of the Report on Racial Discrimination and Rights of Afro-Colombian population.

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Majorities without Democracy: Power Imbalances and the Rule of Law in Colombia

The theme of presidential reelection has been present, with brief interruptions, in the headlines of the national press since 2004. A lot has been said, discussed and analyzed in favor and against reelection during this period. The main point of contention lies in the conception of democracy.

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Reparations in Colombia: Dilemmas in a Context of Conflict, Poverty and Exclusion

This publication contributes answers to the challenges based on the need to repair grave violations committed in a context of war, poverty and exclusion.

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New Book: “Normas de papel. La cultura del incumplimiento de reglas”

Latin America's culture of noncompliance dates from the colonial time period.
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