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The Gentleman’s Club on a Electronic Platform: An Institutional Analysis of the Colombian Stock Exchange
By César Rodríguez Garavito |
“The stock exchange is a medium power in the economic fight”, wrote Max Weber in 1894 in a pedagogical pamphlet on the theme. In the same way as a war needs “rifles y cannons”, “a strong market” is necessary in times of peace, when “the nations continue their inexorable and inevitable fight by their national existence and economic power” (in Swedberg 1998: 184).
Ingrid as a symbol and as a reality
By Rodrigo Uprimny Yepes |
Rodrigo Uprimny, director of Dejusticia, argues that Ingrid Betancourt’s moving letter can become a type of “Diary of Ann Frank” about the drama of kidnapping in Colombia.
Gifts, the act of giving
By Mauricio García Villegas |
Many serve more to increase the collective hypocrisy of the generosity than for feeding affection.
Navigation letters
By Danilo Rojas Betancourth (Socio inactivo) |
Danilo Rojas, professor at the National University and founding member of Dejusticia, calls attention on the importance of the first months of 2008 in the matters of planning and participation, as well as the equilibrium that should exist between these two notions.
Yielding for liberation to the kidnapped?
By Mauricio García Villegas |
Before Ingrid Betancur’s tests of survival, it fits to ask: under what circumstances can a person consider he has the right to cause other grief or punishment?
Dejusticia and IDEP launch two books about education and human rights
By Dejusticia |
Dejusticia and IDEP launch “Serious Social Rights” and “Six cities, tour countries, one right”, two investigations about education in Colombia and Latin America. Attend: December 5, 2007 at 7pm, Lerner Bookstore (Calle 92 – Cra 15)
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.
