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Thank You, Activists from the Global South! We have selected the new 2025 cohort of fellows

The next call for applications will open at the end of 2025 to form the cohort that will begin in mid-2026. Don’t miss the opportunity to apply!

Being a migrant in times of surveillance

Biometric data, because it is personal and sensitive, requires rigorous handling, but today it is used without sufficient safeguards, exposing people to surveillance and discrimination.

Let’s imagine with others to address the crisis of civil society in Latin America

The current global context, in which we face a closure of civic space, requires us to improve our structures to find new forms of survival, resistance, and solidarity. For this reason, we held a dialogue with social organizations in Bogotá to exchange experiences and forge alliances that will allow us to overcome this crisis from different countries and realities.

Interview with Naomi Roht-Arriaza by Vivian Newman, April 2025

Interview with Naomi Roht-Arriaza professor and expert in international law, human rights, damages and liability.

The Italian Formula for Fighting Corruption and Organized Crime

Italia es un caso de estudio que nos deberíamos atrever a mirar con detenimiento, pues su contexto tiene algunas similitudes con el nuestro. La violencia, los cárteles y las mafias, que por desgracia compartimos, son realidades que influyen en los niveles de corrupción y en la percepción de la ciudadanía.

Trump’s Abandonment of the Global Fight Against Corruption

But we all know that what Trump wants is to give gringo companies a leg up against Chinese competitors, paying better bribes than them and thus continuing to regress ethically so that the law of “survival of the fittest” applies. 

I don’t care if they call me a dictator.

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.

El trabajo de las ONG ha sido clave para la defensa de los derechos humanos, denunciando injusticias y los peores crímenes de Gobiernos autoritarios.

NGOs at risk of global extinction

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

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

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.

Gobierno de Colombia debe gestionar recursos para garantizar el derecho a la salud de migrantes venezolanos: Corte Constitucional

Colombia must obtain resources to guarantee the right to health of Venezuelan migrants: Constitutional Court

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.

Venezuela

Dejusticia intervenes in defense of Venezuelan migrants’ right to health

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

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

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

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

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.

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