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Empowered Participatory Governance: An Unexpected Colombian Venture in Public Sociology
By César Rodríguez Garavito |
It reviews the exchange the participatory democracy between the National University of Colombia and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The tragedy of the farce
By César Rodríguez Garavito |
César Rodríguez criticizes antiabortion groups and the Constitutional Court for not knowing that its actions are massive violations of women’s rights, which has been revealed by recent statistics on sexual violence.
The block of constitutionality in Colombia: jurisprudential analysis and a trial of the doctrinal systematization.
By Rodrigo Uprimny Yepes |
The text analyzes the evolution of the block of constitutionality in Colombia and it evaluates comparative rights and shows the importance of incorporating it into the national code of human rights standards. After explaining the view of this figure, the text describes its evolution in the Colombian constitutional jurisprudence and analyzes the main conceptual and legal issues that still pose problems, proposing doctrinal solutions that favor application by national judges of the international law of the human rights.
Block of constitutionality, human rights and the new penal procedure
By Rodrigo Uprimny Yepes |
The text synthesizes the reach of the block of constitutionality in Colombia, including that permit of the internal application of international human rights law. After proposing a doctrinal systematization of the reach of this figure, the text samples some of Colombia’s penal applications.
The uni-diversalidad of the human rights: confliction of rights, concepts of democracy and constitutional interpretation.
By Rodrigo Uprimny Yepes |
The article shows the relationship between the practice of the constitutional interpretation and the problems of the fundamentalism of universality of human rights. The article does a systematic study of Colombian, German, and American constitutional jurisprudence that has resolved the tensions between the right to privacy and the right to freedom of information. It also samples different solutions to the tensions of constitutional democracy. The article maintains that the practical harmonization of those constitutional tensions is a possible to reach through dialogue, a certain universality of human rights and to understand them there needs to be a respect for the diversity of perspectives.
The Guardianship Reform: Adjust or dismantle?
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This article debates the three large controversies stirred up by the guardianship reform. (1) It asks in what measure guardianship has been a factor of congestion and what to do with the possible congestion that it has caused. (2) It asks in what way legal action has caused legal insecurity and has affected the court. (3) Finally it asks whether or not reform is necessary for maintaining guardianship for social rights. The article analyzes these three points and tries to review the situation and the terms of debate in respect to each issue in order to offer perspectives about a solution.
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.
