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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.
Taxes on soft drinks in the Americas: trend or necessity
By Diana Guarnizo |
More than a trend, the increasing number of countries implementing a tax on soft drinks shows that this kind of fiscal measure is a cost-efficient policy to tackle the obesity epidemic in the Americas.
The justice needs of the world
By Carolina Villadiego Burbano |
States need to know the legal needs of their populations and the ways in which citizens act to manage and resolve those needs in order to design better schemes for the resolution of disputes and for providing access to justice.
Going Beyond Nature
By Helena Durán |
What does granting rights to nature really mean? How can the rights of nature be materialized? Which rights? Where does this recognition leave the communities that have traditionally inhabited and helped to conserve certain areas?
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.
