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“The law of Justice and Peace”: Proceedings of Truth?
By Rodrigo Uprimny Yepes |
The truth is the basis of a process of respectful and lasting peace of victim’s rights, without truth it is not known who to punish or who to repair. Without truth it is difficult to set forth the mechanisms that can impede the reoccurrence of such atrocious conduct.
The truth of the law of justice and peace
By Rodrigo Uprimny Yepes |
Rodrigo Uprimny thinks that it is unfortunate that the law of justice and peace does not establish appropriate legal media to reach the truth.
On truth and other devils
By Danilo Rojas Betancourth (Socio inactivo) |
Danilo Rojas explains why the right of truth remains outside the Law of Justice and Peace and he informs about its unlucky consequences.
Dimensions of Transitional Justice in Colombia: building bridges among the legal, the political, and the psychosocial
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In this article, the authors defend a thesis that a consideration of the fluid dialogue between legal, political, and psychosocial dimensions of society is of fundamental importance to the topic of transitional justice. Although there are no psychosocial experts on transitional justice, the authors contend there is a considerable dissociation among the discussed dimensions that is problematic for exploration and practical implementations of transitional justice in Colombia.
Toward a Democratic Conception of Reconciliation
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This research focuses on the significance of the word reconciliation. It questions what implications it has in contexts of armed conflict, generalized violence, violations of human rights and impunity from the countryside to the cities of Colombia. Facing the difficult realities of reconciliation, the authors explore what is needed to have durable peace rise from a time of profound interpersonal conflict characterized by denial of the other, aggressive behavior and violence.
The article suggests that reconciliation is what is needed for there to be a lasting peace, which was existed before there were enemies and deep interpersonal conflicts, negation or lack of recognition of the others and the constant use of aggression and violence.
Agrarian Counter-reform
By Mauricio García Villegas |
Generally, counter-reformations are social or political reactions that seek to rejoin forces after a revolution or an important social or political change. In Colombia, the counter-reform is a reaction to nothing. The word ‘contra’ is a reference to an ideal that never existed.
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.”
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