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With women like that…
By Helena Alviar García |
Sarah Palin, candidate to the Vice-presidency of the United States, can be one of the worst representative of the feminine causes.
God and Politics
By Dejusticia |
The traditional hostility between the liberal thinking and religion does not let see that both have coincidences.
Dead Disappeared
By Mauricio García Villegas |
This is a macabre country. The great headlines in the colombian news this week refers to the founding of bodies of disappeared people. One of them was the body of an 11 months baby killed by its own father, who had kidnapped the baby in order to extortionate his mother.
Semana Speaks on the Lawsuit Presented by Dejusticia on the Right to to live in a House with Dignified Conditions
By Dejusticia |
“Cramped” in the Social Interest Houses
A group of academics presented a lawsuit before the Constitutional Court against two laws from the regime that establishes the conditions to give houses to the poor. They consider these t be damaging, and in the contrary benefit constructors and owners of the land.
Colombian Laws allow the Social interest Houses to be of minimum 26 square meters. According to Fedevivienda and Dejustcia, imposing that minimum ends up to be the maximum offered in the market.
Victims Statute: observations to the law project 157 of 2007
By |
This document pretends to develop a proposal to include the gender perspective in the Victims Statute that is now in the Congress. The document argues from the practical and normative point of view why is it necessary and fundamental to include differential perspectives in the law project, in particular the gender perspective.
The Financial Market, a Suicidal Institution?
By Rodrigo Uprimny Yepes |
As some people, there exists institutions that are “suicidal”, according to the suggestive expression of the philosopher Garzón Valdés. One of those institutions is the market, or at least, the financial market. Its suicidal tendency derives from the fact that if it´s abandoned to its own dynamic, without any ethical control or regulation, then the market tends to the auto´destruction.
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.
