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“Seville’s commitment” must not remain on paper
By Laura Zambrano |
What we saw and heard in the previous forums—especially in the feminist and civil society space—made it clear to us that grassroots mobilization is key.
Climate budgets
By Dejusticia |
El presupuesto no es solo una hoja de cálculo. Es una herramienta política que define qué se protege y a quién se prioriza.
Taxes and spending with a sense of social justice
By Dejusticia |
Talking about fiscal policy means talking about government revenue and spending, but above all about its power to transform lives and define the future we want to build.
What’s in the shopping cart: the hidden history of “neutral” taxes
By Dejusticia |
Consumption taxes hit low-income households hardest, where every penny counts.
The Hungarian Case and its Anti-NGO Laws
By Dejusticia |
One of the most sustained targets is civic space. Orbán’s government has invoked transparency and national sovereignty to justify a series of laws designed to suffocate independent civil society.
Reclaiming multilateralism for a shared future
By Mariana Escobar Roldán |
An alternative to the crisis of this model of cooperation is to create a new approach to multilateralism that makes collective bargaining conditions more favorable for the Global South.
The invisible city
By Mauricio García Villegas |
Citizen culture, which is a very important part of what a city is, is an invisible form of capital that cannot be sold on the stock market, but that is worth a lot.
Obese and famished
By César Rodríguez Garavito |
According to the latest Survey on the Nutritional Situation of Colombians, which was released this week, overweight rates in adults and children increased. This revelation opened the debate once again to imposing limits on ultra-processed food advertising and a tax on sugary drinks.
Restricting junk food advertising: censorship or health protection?
By Diana Guarnizo |
It is time for Latin America to take on the challenge and decide whether commercial speech needs to be protected over children’s health or whether it can be restricted in order to prevent increasing children’s obesity rates. The recent decision by the Colombian Constitutional Court is a good step forward, but it is not enough.
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.
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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.
