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If God was Black…
By César Rodríguez Garavito |
…All World change, the song says. In this earthly world, what seems to be is that the next United States President will be black. Now that for the first time in history, the possibility is within reach, how much would change if Obama at the always white White House? And how much of the change would we feel in these tropical lands?
Speed Limits
By Mauricio García Villegas |
The traffic signs that indicated the highway speed limits in Colombia bear a striking resemblance to that which adolescents call ‘a scolding by their parents’.
The Fraud of the Merit Competition
By Juan Fernando Jaramillo |
Congress has approved a governmental bill that defrauds those that participate in the contest of merit organized in 2005 to provide 100,000 public offices.
Filled Chairs, Empty Principles
By Rodrigo Uprimny Yepes |
The three arguments of Uribismo to justify their support of the collapse of the reformed named ‘Empty Chair’ sound very empty.
The City without the Poor
By Mauricio García Villegas |
The rich neighborhoods of our cities bear a striking resemblance to the neighborhoods of Miami or of Barcelona. The unique thing that makes them not identical is that they do not have ‘poor’ there, those in the streets, selling something, or begging. The governmental bill 087 of 2007 –for presidential sanctions- wants to put an end to the ‘aesthetic’ difference that sanctions the drivers that purchase from the people selling at traffic lights.
Constitutional Efforts
By Mauricio García Villegas |
Václav Havel, the first president of the Czech Republic, once said that the ‘truth is not simply what one thinks it is. It is also the circumstances in which it is said and to who, how and when it is said’. What Havel is stating is not only applicable to the political world, but also to the world of justice, particularly to that of constitutional courts that are more in political than judicial worlds.
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.
