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Where will the solutions to a world in crisis come from?
By Dejusticia |
Debates on multilateralism, migration, and democracy are shaping 2025. From the Global South, we explore how these issues are redefining geopolitics and what lessons they offer for building a more just and sustainable future.
Human mobility under threat: How is Latin America responding?
By Dejusticia |
In 2025, migration policies from the Global North intensify securitization and externalization of control, undermining fundamental rights in Latin America. This blog examines how the region, despite setbacks, can sustain rights-based responses and build alternatives to the criminalization of human mobility.
When spending and freedoms are restricted. Milei’s Argentina
By Dejusticia |
Since 2023, Javier Milei’s government in Argentina has advanced a harsh economic adjustment alongside restrictions on civic freedoms and repression of social protest. This text examines how these measures erode rights, entrench extractivist models, and threaten democracy, highlighting the urgency of defending protest as a democratic tool.
The Moment of the Global South: Seizing 2025 to Transform Multilateralism
By Sergio Chaparro |
2025 may be a turning point for multilateralism. With FfD4 in Seville, COP30 in Belém, and the G20 in Johannesburg, the Global South has the chance to lead the fight for a fairer global system, defending economic, climate, and social justice in a world fractured by geopolitical rivalries.
Strategies to defend civil society against authoritarianism in Latin America
By Dejusticia |
In a context of crisis for the social movement, the “Imaginar con Otros” (Imagining with Others) meeting brought together Latin American civil society to broaden our perspective and explore how other organizations from different countries have developed strategies to face the challenges of working amid different forms of authoritarianism.
A guardian of the Amazon: Taxation for sustainability
By Dejusticia |
Saving the Amazon requires transforming the pain of deforestation into an urgent and collective commitment. It is imperative to design a comprehensive approach that combines sound public policies with a fair tax system.
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.”
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