Alternative report to the United Nations Committee Against Forced Displacement
By Maria Paula Ángel, Vivian Newman Pont |
Constitution, Democracy, and Rights: Selected Texts from Juan Jaramillo
By Diana Isabel Güiza Gómez, Juan Fernando Jaramillo (Deceased), Mauricio García Villegas, Rodrigo Uprimny Yepes |
Constitution, Democracy, and Rights is a compilation of some of Juan Fernando Jaramillo's best constitutional law articles. He was a founding member of Dejusticia who passed away young four years ago.
Personal Data in Public Information: Dark in the Private Sphere and Light in the Public Sphere
By Vivian Newman Pont |
This document explores the response of Colombian law and jurisprudence to the tensions between intimacy and the publicity of data.
Communications Surveillance in Colombia: The Chasm between Technological Capacity and the Legal Framework
By Carlos Cortés Castillo, Celeste Kauffman |
The goal of this book is to examine the Colombian legal and jurisprudential framework regarding communications surveillance in light of today's technologies.
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.
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.
The States of the Country: Municipal Institutions and Local Realities in Colombia
By Javier Eduardo Revelo Rebolledo, José Rafael Espinosa Restrepo, Mauricio García Villegas |
This book studies the Colombia's social reality through local institutions.
Altered State: Clientelism, Mafias and Institutional Weakness in Colombia
By Javier Eduardo Revelo Rebolledo, Mauricio García Villegas |
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.
And they refounded the homeland… On how the mafia and politicians reconfigured the Colombian State
By Javier Eduardo Revelo Rebolledo, Mauricio García Villegas, Rodrigo Uprimny Yepes |
This publication discusses the implications of the capture of the Colombian State by illegal armed groups.
