The National Plan for Development and Reparations
A proposal for a national program on administrative reparations for victims of crimes against humanity in the setting of armed conflict.
Read MoreSince July 18, Job workshop on Restorative Justice in Oñati, Spain.
An encounter to reflect on alternatives to punitive justice in the context of Colombia and Latin America
Read MoreThe President’s proposal: Disobey the State
The President’s proposal to release the congresspersons imprisoned by the “para-politica”, preferring a pardon of justice, promotes the culture of justification of rebellion by subjective reasons of justice or inefficiency of the State, and in doing so, devalues institutions and rights.
Read MoreProtecting maternity
Helena Alviar García and Isabel Cristina Jaramillo Sierra affirm that women continue being discriminated against as mothers or potential mothers in the labor market.
Read MoreA week of an Afro-Colombianism, the question is: Is Colombia a racist country?
César Rodríguez Garavito coordinator of the Observation of Racial Discrimination analyzes an exclusive of the forms of racism in Colombia for “semana.com”.
Read MoreThe paradoxes of the FTA
Diana Rodríguez Franco, from Dejusticia, maintains that the decision from the Government of the United States of modifying the Free Trade agreement opens a door for changing the clauses from the Treaty that are not convenient and unconstitutional.
Read MoreObservatory Workshops on Racial Discrimination in Cali and Buenaventura
The Center of Socio-legal Investigations (CIJUS) at the University of the Andes in collaboration with the Process of Black Communities (PCN) and the Center for Studies of Rights, Justice and Society (Dejusticia), began today May 17th the job workshops about racial discrimination in Cali and Buenaventura.
Read MoreThe War on Drugs: A Repressive Addiction?
This article, through an analysis of the evolution of anti-drug politics in 1989, develops the metaphor of the addictive character to the “war on drugs”. The central thesis is that, just as an addict feels the compulsion to consume more of certain substances each time they use with each use a production of a less pleasant effect, the anti-drug strategy resorts to increasingly more intense repressions with very few effects on the supply of drugs. On the other hand, that repression causes serious evil effects, such as the increase of violence and corruption associated with the drug trafficking mafia, or the development of an authoritarian and invasive criminal law. The article finishes with a so-called lucky detoxification of the anti-drug politics that achieves responsible criminal politics set against drugs.
Read MoreAddiction to repression
Rodrigo Uprimny, director of Dejusticia, argues that the governmental proposal to penalize drug use is because of the addictive nature of the repression of drugs.
Read MoreCourse for journalists in International System of Human Rights
More than 20 journalists of the most important mass media participated in the Course in International System of Human Rights, promoted by Dejusticia and the Spanish Agency of International Cooperation. The wealth and the severity of the information about human rights are fundamental in countries with serious humanitarian crisis, such as Colombia.
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