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Rule of Law<\/h3>\n

Publications<\/p>\n


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\n Democracy, Justice & Society:
Ten Years of Research at Dejusticia<\/a>
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\n By Mar\u00eda Adelaida Ceballos Bedoya<\/a>, Mauricio Garc\u00eda Villegas<\/a>, Mar\u00eda Adelaida Ceballos Bedoya<\/a>, Mauricio Garc\u00eda Villegas<\/a>
\n | Feb 16, 2017
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This book collects the essential from the texts on justice elaborated during the last decade in the Center for the Study of Law, Justice and Society – Dejusticia. <\/p>\n

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\n Alternative report to the United Nations Committee Against Forced Displacement<\/a>
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\n By Maria Paula \u00c1ngel<\/a>, Vivian Newman Pont<\/a>
\n | Aug 31, 2016
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Dejusticia and five allied organizations presented an alternative report to the United Nations Committee Against Forced Displacement before its 11th Session, which took place on October 3-14, 2016.
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\n Constitution, Democracy, and Rights<\/a>
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\n By Diana Isabel G\u00fciza G\u00f3mez<\/a>, Juan Fernando Jaramillo<\/a>, Mauricio Garc\u00eda Villegas<\/a>
\n | May 4, 2016
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Constitution, Democracy, and Rights is a compilation of some of Juan Fernando Jaramillo’s best constitutional law articles. He was a founding member of Dejusticia who passed away young four years ago.<\/p>\n

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\n Personal Data in Public Information: Dark in the Private Sphere and Light in the Public Sphere<\/a>
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\n By Vivian Newman Pont<\/a>
\n | Mar 17, 2015
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In a constitutional democracy, transparency in the public sphere and privacy in the private sphere are necessary, critical, and complementary values.<\/p>\n

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\n Communications Surveilance in Colombia: The Chasm between Technological Capacity and the Legal Framework<\/a>
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\n By Carlos Cort\u00e9s Castillo<\/a>, Celeste Kauffman<\/a>
\n | Feb 4, 2015
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The goal of this book is to examine the Colombian legal and jurisprudential framework regarding communications surveillance in light of today’s technologies.<\/p>\n

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\n Institutions and Drug-trafficking: the Judicial Geography of Drug-Related Crimes in Colombia<\/a>
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\n By Felipe Jim\u00e9nez \u00c1ngel<\/a>, Jos\u00e9 Rafael Espinosa Restrepo<\/a>, Mauricio Garc\u00eda Villegas<\/a>
\n | Apr 8, 2014
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This text shows how, in addition to being disproportionately punitive, the way the government implements its drug laws is discriminatory. Drug laws are applied in certain geographic regions more than others, and some crimes are prosecuted more than others.<\/p>\n

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\n The Right to Government: The Legal Effects of Institutional Apartheid in Colombia<\/a>
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\n By Jos\u00e9 Rafael Espinosa Restrepo<\/a>, Mauricio Garc\u00eda Villegas<\/a>
\n | Feb 26, 2014
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This book defends the idea that people living in isolated territories have a right to institutional assistance; in other words, they have a right to government. Not just to any government, but one that that protects their dignity and their rights.
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\n The states of the country: Municipal institutions and local realities in Colombia<\/a>
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\n By Jos\u00e9 Rafael Espinosa Restrepo<\/a>, Javier Eduardo Revelo Rebolledo<\/a>, Mauricio Garc\u00eda Villegas<\/a>
\n | Nov 15, 2011
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This book studies the Colombia’s social reality through local institutions.
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\n Altered State: Clientelism, Mafias and Institutional Weakness in Colombia<\/a>
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\n By Javier Eduardo Revelo Rebolledo<\/a>, Mauricio Garc\u00eda Villegas<\/a>
\n | Oct 15, 2010
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This book articulates a comprehensive vision of not only the the social and political effects of the paramilitary phenomenon in Colombia, but also of institutional and legal weaknesses of the Colombian government that has been captured by the mafias and political actors.
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