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The white man’s burden
By Dejusticia |
The self-imposed “white man’s burden” in the twenty-first century is no longer civilize uncivilized and savage peoples from afar, but to save the poor Muslims from ignorance and tyranny of their own culture.
Independence: pending tasks
By Rodrigo Uprimny Yepes |
TODAY JULY 20th, the day we celebrate the 200th anniversary of the “Grito de Independencia”, it is worthwhile to ask ourselves whether or not the challenges faced by the first generation of Colombians are still pending.
Third follow-up report to Auto 092 of 2008
By Dejusticia |
The Corporation Casa de la Mujer, the Consultancy for Human Rights and Displacement (CODHES), the Corporation Sisma Women, the Colombian Women’s Initiative Partnership for Peace (IMP), the Women’s Pacific Route, the Center for the Study of Law, Justice, and Society – Dejusticia, the Working Group on Women and Armed Conflict, the Colombian Commission of Jurists, the Lawyers Collective José Alvear Restrepo, and the League of Displaced Women, meeting in follow-up committee to the order issued to the Attorney General and the invitation to the Inspector General’s Office regarding the annex of the Auto 092, 2008 of the Constitutional Court, together with the National Indigenous Organization of Colombia, ONIC, present the third monitoring report which intends to demonstrate that the entities in charged of effectively implementing the Auto 092 have not done so, reason why the Court’s intervention in the matter is requested.
Where is the Green Party?
By César Rodríguez Garavito |
IN 1911, ROBERT MICHELS formulated one of the most popular thesis in political science: the “iron law of oligarchy.” According to this thesis, political parties have an inescapable destiny: to become bureaucratic machines dominated by leaders who, sooner or later, forget the bases.
Ingrid Betancourt: difference or indifference?
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It produces a distaste that her expectation is a very high economic compensation instead of proclaiming a broader and more universal repair for millions of victims in Colombia.
Referee errors and law
By Rodrigo Uprimny Yepes |
DOES LAW HAVE ANYTHING TO SAY about how to deal with the obvious referee errors committed in this World Cup, such as Lampard’s goal against Germany?
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.
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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.
