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The enormous challenges of a good man
By Mauricio García Villegas |
Since World War Two this is the first time the Unites Stated doesn’t have the capacity of imposing, that it had before.
¿Individual Humanitarian Special Agreements?
By Rodrigo Uprimny Yepes |
Colombians want Kidnapped to be liberated. For that reason it would be logic for us to support the Government when it gives incentives for the Guerrilla members to scape with the kidnapped people, as the strategy has made some liberations possible. But the matter is not that simple, as the strategy politically risky and unstable.
About politics history
By Mauricio García Villegas |
During holidays, I was reading texts about latinamerican politics history. I am not going to use this column, dear reader, for developing a synthesis of what I read, neither to write an essay about democracy in Latin America. What I am going to do is to show the impressions those texts left me about our own political regime.
Hypocracy and Reelection
By María Paula Saffon |
Adjusting himself to the prototype of a Cynical, Uribe pretends us to believe that reelection is not with him; are the people who are claiming his permanence in the power.
Tragic Wars
By Mauricio García Villegas |
Conflicts and tragedies have caused enormous suffer to humanity. But more terrible than that, have been conflicts that are assumed as tragedies, as natural events or supernatural that no one can resist. Those are the total wars, the holy wars, the wars where fighters are ready to die before negotiating with the enemy. The conflict between Israel and Hamas has a lot more than that.
I Dream with a New Policy Against Drugs
By Rodrigo Uprimny Yepes |
The custom is to start the year expressing some wishes and commitments. I confess that since long time ago, one of my dreams is that the world see sense and leave that nightmare that is the war against drugs.
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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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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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.
