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An island with heart
By Vivian Newman Pont |
Without a mayor or police force, through alliances, dedication, and passion, the Orika Community Council achieved a very difficult first collective land titling for Afro-Caribbean communities.
The space that decentralizes peace from the Montes de María
By Dejusticia |
For more than 10 years, the Montes de María Regional Peace Building Space has managed to forge bonds of affection and community trust. Through the sustained work of its monthly meetings and the Reconciliation Festival, it has positioned dialogue and territorial identity as a condition for peace, becoming agents of hope for the entire region.
The struggle of Colombian farmers to be recognized and counted
By Dejusticia |
Through a historic legal action, ACIT, together with other social organizations in the country, achieved a milestone in the struggle of farmers in Colombia: forcing the state to conduct a census of farmers in order to characterize and recognize them, and thus gather information that will help create public policies that benefit them.
The center is the periphery: a circle of words at the FUCAI Foundation
By Dejusticia |
Members of the Caminos de Identidad Foundation (FUCAI) have learned from indigenous peoples that problems contain solutions, that the closer we get to our ancestors, the more innovative we become, and that there is abundance where some only see scarcity.
“A person with autism does not live in their own world”: 13 years breaking down stigmas
By Dejusticia |
Sebastián is co-founder of the Colombian Autism League (LICA) and also a person with autism or autism spectrum disorder. Being part of the organization has allowed him to break down prejudices associated with people with autism and, instead, empower their autonomy and self-determination.
Being a feminist organization is quite a challenge in Riohacha
By Dejusticia |
The work for nonviolence and gender equality in Riohacha (La Guajira), led by a group of women from this city, went from being a citizen campaign to becoming the Evas y Adanes Association, an organization that is committed to education and strategic communications to transform the machismo typical of La Guajira into inclusion and equality.
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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