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Open call for Global North fellowships 2026
By Dejusticia |
This opportunity, for the second semester of 2026, allows for the exchange of tools and research-action strategies developed at Dejusticia, as well as the contributions of interns and fellows with their own experiences and those of their organizations.
Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui and Multispecies Justice in the Andes
By Dejusticia |
This essay is part of Indigenizing International Law: Multispecies Justice from Inverse Legal Anthropology, a forthcoming book developed over fifteen years between the University of Kent and Dejusticia.
Children defenders of human rights
By Dejusticia |
The Constitutional Court of Colombia recognizes for the first time that children have the right and duty to defend human rights.
Catatumbo: humanitarian crisis and internal unrest
By Dejusticia |
Dejusticia intervenes before the Constitutional Court to debate the limits of states of emergency in the face of the humanitarian crisis and armed violence.
Litigating also means imagining possible futures
By Dejusticia |
Strategic litigation is more than a ruling: it is a tool for challenging narratives and transforming realities. Learn about three key cases from Dejusticia on data protection, control of power in Catatumbo, and the defense of child defenders.
Civil society and the legality of public administration: the Google case
By Dejusticia |
We analyze the case of the SIC against Google for data protection in Colombia and the importance of citizen participation in the face of Big Tech’s power.
Class racism
By Mauricio García Villegas |
When I hear Senator Carlos Martinez say he is being chased for being black, I think about the complexities racism has in Colombia.
Economics and happiness
By Mauricio García Villegas |
Everyone wants to be happy, who doesn’t? However as we have no precise recipe to achieve this, we dedicate ourselves to pursue what seems like the image we have of happiness: money, love, power, recreation, etc.
Palestine
By Mauricio García Villegas |
The decision of President Santos not to support the entry of Palestine, as a statehood, to the United Nations, not only seems contrary to justice and international law, but also politically misguided.
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.
