Posts Tagged ‘Colombia’
25 Voices Against Deforestation
From 17 cities around Colombia, these boys, girls, and young adults between the ages of 7 and 26 were the impetus for the First Lawsuit on Climate Change and the Future Generations of Latin America.
Read MoreThe foreign minister’s silence on Colombians imprisoned in Venezuela
More than 60 innocent Colombians sleep in Venezuelan jail cells. Although similar situations have resulted in diplomatic confrontations between Venezuela and countries such as Brazil, in Colombia, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, María Ángela Holguín has kept a low profile.
Read MoreEverything You Need to Know About the Colombian Peace Process
César Rodríguez Garavito, Executive Director of Dejusticia, gives a crash course on these complex aspects of the Colombian transition to peace in this talk at the American University of Beirut sponsored by The Legal Agenda and Issam Fares Institute.
Read MoreRights Without Borders
The tragedy of forced displacement violates the fundamental rights of those who must abandon their families, their homes and their jobs in order to survive. It is imperative that recipient countries have policies that guarantee the life, integrity and, family reunification of those who are victims of forced displacement.
Read MoreLessons for Colombia from eight countries on corporate responsibility in transitional justice: report
The report includes a comparative study of eight countries (Argentina, Brazil, South Africa, Guatemala, East Timor, Sierra Leone and Liberia) that used transitional justice to judge crimes by corporate actors during armed conflicts.
Read MoreDejusticia weighs in on the Ministry of Justice´s proposal regarding differentiated penal treatment
We comment the proposed draft law on the Regulation of Differential Criminal Treatment for individuals associated with the cultivation of illicit crops and women linked to small-scale drug trafficking.
Read MoreVenezuela, welcome to Colombia
Our Venezuelan brothers and sisters are migrating to Colombia in search of a dignified life. The authoritarian regime of Nicolás Maduro is creating the worst humanitarian crisis in Venezuela.
Read MoreConfusion in the ICC
With Georgia under investigation and Colombia working hand by hand with the ICC towards a peace agreement with guerrillas, the complementarity of the Rome Statue system seems sufficient, but the whole picture is more complicated.
Read MoreFatherlands of Paper
In the middle of so many impassioned discussions about the situation in the Colombian-Venezuelan border, I remembered a passage from The World of Yesterday, one of my favorite books.
Read MoreDejusticia’s Third Action-Research Global School Begins
Rodrigo Uprimny Responds to the Solicitor General’s and Ex-Judge Marco Velilla’s Regarding Alleged Leaks of Judicial Decisions
Workers’ Power, Inequality and Human Dignity
Why does progress on equity and human rights depend more on workers’ organization than we usually think? A call to strengthen inclusive unionism.
Read MoreWhen the Truth Prevails, What Happens to Justice?
Now that negotiations have advanced to consider the second element, justice, it is worth considering: how can truth contribute to justice?
Read MoreTradition and Violence (I)
We have debated much about how social injustice and the state’s weakness have influenced violence in Colombia. However, we have not explored how our culture and values affect that same violence.
Read MoreRadio Debates
In Colombia the radio has greatly developed, encouraged perhaps by difficult geography and poor communication among regions. Lacking highways, Colombians have communicated through radiowaves.
Read MoreProfamilia’s Campaign
In Colombia abortion is legal in three exceptional cases: when the life or health of the pregnant woman is at risk, when the fetus’ malformations make it impossible from him/her to live outside the uterus, and when the pregnancy is a result of a carnal violation.
Read MoreThe Lottery of Bad Luck
Last Wednesday I left Bogotá by car towards Nocaima, a small town in western Cundinamarca.
Read MorePodcast: Balance of Powers Reform
Radio program Derecho a la carta invited Carolina Villadiego to discuss the Balance of Powers Reform currently in Congress.
Read MoreRodrigo Upriminy Intervenes in Public Audience about the #BalanceOfPowers Reform
This past 20th of March 2015, Rodrigo Uprimny participated in the Public Audience in Congress discussing the essential aspects of the Balance of Powers Reform.
Read MoreWater and the Inspector General’s Office
What was the Inspector General’s Office doing while the water supply was running out in Casanare? It wasn’t investigating the officers who let the “morichales” (wetlands) dry or who approved the licenses to exploit patroleum near water sources.
Read MoreRacial Discrimination in the Labor Market: An Experimental Study in Bogotá
This paper documents the first Colombian quantitative study on racial discrimination in the labor market, specifically in Bogotá. The study finds that the skin color has a direct and negative effect on the chances of finding a job.
Read MoreBetween Stereotypes: Labor Trajectories for Men and Women in Colombia
This document explores the labor trajectories of men and women. It finds that strategic decisions, as well as formal and informal labor market norms, are based on images, stereotypes and ideas about gender that leads to a division of labor by gender.
Read MoreInsufficient Judicial Independence, Deformed Preventive Prison: The cases of Argentina, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru
In this study we analyze the main pressures and interferences to which Colombian judges and prosecutors are subject when they have to make decisions regarding the imposition of preventive detention
Read MoreOutrageous Penalties: Disproportionality in the penalization of drugs crimes in Colombia
This study supports with solid empirical evidence that drug policies in Colombia that resort to the use of criminal law do not respect the principle of proportionality and therefore are not justifiable from the constitutional point of view.
Goodbye river: The Dispute over Land, Water and the Rights of the Indigenous living near the Urrá dam
This books tell the story of the dam of Urrá through the central themes of violence and the dispute for land and the natural resources in Colombia.
Read More13th Discussion Document: Quota Law in Colombia: Progress and Challenges. Ten Years of Law 581 of 2000
In 2000 the Colombian legislature approved a law aimed at promoting equal participation of women in high-level state offices through the adoption of a quota system that orders that at least 30% of public offices are occupied by women.
Read MoreThe States of the Country: Municipal Institutions and Local Realities in Colombia
This book studies the Colombia’s social reality through local institutions.
Read MoreAccess to Justice: Cases of Business Human Rights Abuses
Access to justice and effective remedy have become a crucial element in the protection of human rights within the context of business activities, as well as an area of fundamental importance to judges and lawyers who aim to promote the rule of law and human rights.
Read MoreAltered State: Clientelism, Mafias and Institutional Weakness in Colombia
This book articulates a comprehensive vision of not only the the social and political effects of the paramilitary phenomenon in Colombia, but also of the institutional and legal weaknesses of the Colombian government, which has been captured by mafias and political actors.
Read MoreAnd they refounded the homeland… On how the mafia and politicians reconfigured the Colombian State
This publication discusses the implications of the capture of the Colombian State by illegal armed groups.
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