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People to Order
By Mauricio García Villegas |
It has been surpirsing for me how foreigners get easily used to the cold tropic that is Bogota.
Evading the abortion in the General Attorney
By César Rodríguez Garavito |
It was evident. For the elections the attorney Ordoñez promissed not to evade the sentences of the Constitutional Court, that are against his moral conceptions, but are obligatory, as well as the sentences that protect the rights of homosexuals, and the right of the woman to abort when raped, or victim of incest or her health is in risk.
Notes from Honduras: Constituent Power and Reelection
By Diego López Medina |
Honduras President Manuel Zelaya proposed a “fourth ballot box” for the next electoral contest. In late 2009, there will be elections for president, congress and municipal governments. The idea of the “fourth ballot box” is convening a Constituent Assembly to change the Honduran Constitution of 1982.
Uribe and the Mermaids
By Mauricio García Villegas |
Homer in the Odyssey that the Mermaids of the Mediterranean had a beautiful chant that when the sailors listened to it, they went blinded to them and finished crashed against the corals, if not they died in the place, killed by the mermaids.
Cambio recognizes the participation of Dejusticia in the presentation of unconstitutionality lawsuit that supports the sentence C-029
By Dejusticia |
The unconstitutionality lawsuit that supports the sentence C-029 was filed April 28, 2008 by Colombia Diversa, Center for the Studies of Law, Justice, and Society (Dejusticia), and Public Interest Law Group of the University of the Andes and supported by nearly 30 groups of human rights like the Comisión Colombiana de Juristas and Católicas por el Derecho a Decidir
Better Drug Trafficker than Gay?
By Nelson Camilo Sánchez |
The words of the spokesman reflects a persistan culture of discrimination because of the sexual orientation.
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.
