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Pocket Rules
By Mauricio García Villegas |
Douglass North, Nobel Prize in Economy, sustained some time before that the poor economical development of Latin America, in comparison with that of the United States, can be explained, in its major part, by the way how, since five centuries ago people and institutions conceive laws in this continent.
Recommended document: a comprehensive plan for the protection of victims and witnesses from serious human rights violations and breaches of international humanitarian law (differential gender approach).
By Dejusticia |
This document presents proposals from civil society organizations to facilitate the implementation of the Sentence T-496/08 of the Constitutional Court.
The Mothers of Belem
By Danilo Rojas Betancourth (Socio inactivo) |
The biblic narration made by Mathew the Evangelist is concise: to the noise made by the magicians about the birth of the King of Jews, the jealous of Herodes appeared who saw his kingdom weaken. He used the magicians to seek for the child in Belem, “so I can also go and adore him”, but the magicians never came back to Herodes, which made him furious and ordered one of the most sadly remembered murders of the history. The murder of innocent two year old children in Belem and it’s surroundings.
The Victory of Turbay Ayala
By Mauricio García Villegas |
“Not everyone had the luck to have 20 years in May in 1968 in Paris”, wrote the french intellectual Régis Debray.
Colombia Vs. Rest of the World
By Nelson Camilo Sánchez |
Appointing Perea as ambassador in South Africa because the World Cup will be hosted there, is just an example of the myopia of the colombian foreign policy.
Victims and Christmas
By Rodrigo Uprimny Yepes |
An impacting Christmas Card, promoted by Claudia Lopez, Antanas mockus and Rudolf Hommes, invites us to reflect and act, so in Colombia there won’t be more false positives, which means, there won’t be more assasinates executed by agents of the Public Force. The Letter is accompanied by a moving picture, where the mothers of Soacha show portraits or memories of the sons they lost due to the army.
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.
Dejusticia's
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.
