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Research reveals that much of the control over food and beverage advertising rests solely on the industry’s self-regulation
By Dejusticia |
Dejusticia researched what measures the Colombian State is taking to control advertising of unhealthy foods and beverages in children, and identified the regulatory gaps that exist to suggest key areas of state regulation.
Ask the cocalera women, they have answers
By Isabel Pereira Arana |
During the implementation of the Peace Agreement, women growers should have the opportunity to say in what ways to transform their territories, and how the promise of a peasant and solidarity economy and lasting peace could be realized.
Crisis in Venezuela: Why isn’t this just another protest?
By Dejusticia |
Dejusticia invited two human right defenders of the NGO Provea (Venezuelan Education-Action Program on Human Rights) to visit Colombia and explain in detail the current profound political and social crisis that the neighboring country faces.
Open Applications to the 15th International Human Rights Colloquium
By Dejusticia |
If you are a human rights activist or an agent of social transformation in Latin America, Africa or Asia, apply to the 15th International Human Rights Colloquium, which will take place in Sao Paulo, Brazil, from October 1 to 6, 2017.
Gpaz and Dejusticia recommend the application of a gender based approach in criminal policy bill
By Dejusticia |
The Working Group on Gender in Peace (GPAZ) and Dejusticia presented an analysis of Bill No. 148 of 2016 (currently in the Senate). The bill is currently being handled by the First Commission and amends provisions of the Criminal Code, the Code of Criminal Procedure , the Penitentiary and Prison Code, and the Childhood and Adolescence Code.
No one responds to racial discrimination at work in Colombia
By Dejusticia |
The Constitutional Court is about to end the legal struggle that Jonh Jak Becerra undertook six years ago, after being a victim of racial discrimination at work. Dejusticia and Cimarrón intervened before the Court, calling for the protection of the rights to equality, non-discrimination, decent work and due process.
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
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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.
