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Life imprisonment: punitive populism without arguments
By Rodrigo Uprimny Yepes |
THE INITIATIVE to hold a referendum to impose life imprisonment for certain crimes against children is not only unconstitutional, as I showed in my previous column, but it is also a proposal without any basis.
It’s time for peace after 40 years of war on drugs.
By Dejusticia |
After 40 years of “war on drugs”, Dejusticia, together with other organizations that are part of the Latin American chapter of the International Consortium on Drug Policy (IDPC), claim the democratic right of all peoples of the continent to fix everything that has not worked in the war on drugs. We call for the end of the purely criminal and police approach, and believe on democratically building one in which emphasis is placed on social development, education, universal health coverage, freedom, and the rights of all people.
To read the complete letter please download the PDF file.
Cultural rights in the city
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This book gathers the lectures presented on the Seminary of Cultural Rights in the City, which took place in Bogotá the 23rd and 24rd of november of 2010 and which constituted the stage for reflexion about a cultural policy with emphasis on human rights for the capital.
The seminar intended to give elements on two principal points: the content and the reach of the cultural rights in conformity of the international and national legal frames and the lineaments to elaborate, implement and evaluate the public policy oriented to guarantee these rights.
The reflexion about these two points had as a direct reference Bogotá, a city that not only faces the complex differences of a globalized world, but also those of a pluri-ethnical country and marked by a long lasting armed conflict, as the colombian one.
Even though this book si therefor oriented to provide elements for the debate about the cultural policy in Bogotá, the reflections that it contains have also a more general reach. The reader will therefore find, on one side, a more panoramic vision on the normative joint of cultural rights and the principal contemporary debates related to the recognition and guarantee of them and, on the other hand, the guidelines to think about public policies that approach legal rights that result as a useful resource not only in the frame of culture but also in all those of public intervention.
Be a man!
By Dejusticia |
Immediate action is needed from the authorities to stop the degrading and discriminating treatment against LGBT people in prisons.
Sexual harassment (I)
By César Rodríguez Garavito |
News about sexual predators beset us. And I can’t get them out of my head.
A very dangerous Bill
By Nelson Camilo Sánchez |
The procedure to restore land to victims has not come out of the oven, when a new bill to formalize property titles en masse and at full speed appears in the Congress. A careful legal analysis turns on the alarm, because everything indicates that there are contradictions.
I don’t care if they call me a dictator.
By Dejusticia |
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.
NGOs at risk of global extinction
By Dejusticia |
How can non-governmental organizations transform themselves? What were they like when they did not depend on international funding?
Colombia: going back to the original balance of justice
By Paola Molano Ayala |
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.
Elementa DD.HH. y Dejusticia presentamos un amicus en el proceso que adelanta el Asocazul y Cajar por afectaciones derivadas de aspersiones con glifosato
By Dejusticia |
El glifosato causó daños irreversibles a los campesinos del sur de Bolívar y el Estado debe repararlos. Así lo argumentamos en una intervención ante el Consejo de Estado.
Colombia must obtain resources to guarantee the right to health of Venezuelan migrants: Constitutional Court
By Santiago Ardila Sierra |
The high court protected the right to health of two undocumented Venezuelans and requested the government to advance as “expeditiously and effectively as possible” towards the full realization of migrants’ right to health, regardless of their immigration status. Dejusticia intervened in the case.
Dejusticia intervenes in defense of Venezuelan migrants’ right to health
By Dejusticia |
The Constitutional Court invited Dejusticia to present their legal opinion on two cases concerning the right to health of people coming from Venezuela.
The long wait of the JEP ahead of the decisions of the Constitutional Court and Congress
By Dejusticia |
In the last six months civil society organizations, such as Dejusticia, have called on both institutions to give free rein to the norms that consolidate the Special Jurisdiction for Peace.
Case of indigenous people of Bojayá who could not vote in the plebiscite is about to reach the Court
By Mauricio Albarracín |
Through a tutela, a group of Emberá claimed their rights to political participation and equality, because their economic situation and how far they live made it impossible for them to move to endorse the Peace Agreement. Dejusticia, human rights organizations, and indigenous leaders asked the High Court to review the case.
The Constitutional Court has the last word to save the Ciénaga Grande of Santa Marta
By César Rodríguez Garavito |
The environmental crisis of this ecosystem led fishermen to pursue a legal battle that reached the High Court. In this intervention, we support their demand that environmental authorities take urgent measures to stop the disaster and thus, protect their rights to healthy environment, dignified life and work.
Gender focus in rural reform is important but insufficient
By Ana Jimena Bautista |
The Gender-in-Peace Working Group -GPAZ, a group of which Dejusticia is a member, took part in the Public Hearing convened by the Constitutional Court, within the framework of the informal constitutional review of Decree 902 of 2017 “to facilitate the implementation of the Comprehensive Rural Reform contemplated in the Final Land Agreement, specifically the procedure for access and formalization and the Land Fund.”
Stories
From The Territory
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.
Dejusticia's
Documentaries
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.
