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Why the U.S.’s boat strikes are illegal and should concern us all
By Dejusticia |
These extrajudicial executions are unilateral actions that threaten the sovereignty of Latin American and Caribbean countries, but even more seriously, they violate the right to life of people.
CELAC-EU: Cooperation Trapped in Prohibitionism
By Dejusticia |
Drug policy dominates the CELAC-EU Summit. We analyze the asymmetry in cooperation and the call to replace prohibitionism with financial traceability.
Leveraging the CELAC–EU Summit in Colombia to promote a fair fiscal agenda
By Dejusticia |
Can the CELAC-EU Summit promote tax justice? The challenge is to connect the PTLAC and the UN Convention to finance sustainable development and human rights.
Transformative bi-regional cooperation for a just energy transition
By Dejusticia |
The CELAC-EU Summit promotes energy transition. How can we achieve a just transition and avoid “green extractivism” in Latin America?
Care as a human right: a bi-regional agenda for the sustainability of life
By Margarita Martínez Osorio |
The bi-regional pact on care will be key at the CELAC-EU Summit. We analyze how it seeks to recognize care as a right and reduce gender inequality.
CELAC–EU: an alliance to defend democracy, rights, and multilateralism in difficult times
By Sergio Chaparro |
Analysis of the CELAC-EU Summit in Santa Marta. The EU-Latin America alliance faces key challenges in democracy, multilateralism, and green transition.
Peruvian democracy hangs in the balance; NGOs at risk
By Nina Chaparro |
The Peruvian state, based on its commitments to international law, has an obligation to guarantee democracy and, within that framework, the right of civil society to associate and express itself. However, we are facing a serious situation in which civic space is being closed off, with various warning signs that urgently need to be addressed.
Maduro’s final blow against NGOs
By Nina Chaparro |
Venezuelan civil society has resisted for years, went to the polls, organized to collect the records, count the votes, and is demanding in the streets, despite fear, that the popular mandate be respected. Let us hope that world leaders and important human rights organizations from outside the country will not leave it alone.
Left, democracy, and Venezuela
By Rodrigo Uprimny Yepes |
Colombia must demand an end to human rights violations and the immediate publication of the results and recount, with international verification to ensure credibility and prevent further violence and repression.
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.
