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Rewards without grief or glory
By Rodrigo Uprimny Yepes |
The reward to the guerrilla that killed Iván Ríos shows the weaknesses of criminal politics and the serious effects on equality before the penal law.
Government of the people
By Mauricio García Villegas |
The summit of Santo Domingo showed that we depend more on the mood of leaders than on diplomacy and international law.
The risks of a preventive defense
By Rodrigo Uprimny Yepes |
Two basic reasons have led for some analysts to justify the Colombian incursion against the FARC in Ecuadorian territory: that Colombia would have acted in legitimate defense and that its conduct would have a basis in the resolution of 1373 of the UN Security Council, that prohibits the states from harboring terrorist groups and that Ecuador would have violated this prohibition.
Invisible Suffering
By Mauricio García Villegas |
Society is mobilized alone now because before had not closely seen the suffering of those kidnapped.
The Right and the march
By César Rodríguez Garavito |
If the left awkwardly entangled itself with the march against the FARC, the right shows their true colors with their march this Thursday, to which I will leave as I left on February 4. And, as the “Facebook” protest clarified the need of a left that does not doubt condemning the FARC, one that will clearly allow the right we have and which we need.
Value formation for future professionals in law
By Diego López Medina |
This is the theme from the behind the times considered the ink bottle suggestion from a group of students at the Cooperative University of Popayán. I was delayed in addressing this because it does not turn out to be easy to speak of the relation between law and values without falling into commonplace or easy sermons. Law students from all over the country have deep concerns about the ethical exercise of the lawyer profession and it does not seem that the faculties or lawyers are responding adequately to address this need.
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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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.
