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Anti-Discrimination<\/h3>\n

Litigation<\/p>\n


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\n Dejusticia’s intervention on the prohibition of arbitrary detention and discriminatory conduct against women who engage in prostitution<\/a>
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\n By Margarita Mart\u00ednez Osorio<\/a>, Mauricio Albarrac\u00edn<\/a>, C\u00e9sar Rodr\u00edguez Garavito<\/a>
\n | Nov 21, 2016
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Dejusticia conducted a citizen intervention before the Constitutional
\nCourt regarding the tutela action interposed by two women who engage in
\nprostitution who were accompanied by Pairs in Action and Reaction Against
\nSocial Exclusion (PARCES) and who asked for the protection of their right on
\nindividual liberty and free circulation, to the vital minimum for subsistence, personal
\nintegrity and work after being taken by police agents in the Butterfly Plaza in
\nSan Victorino in Bogot\u00e1.<\/p>\n

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\n Dejusticia and other organizations intervene in protection case on behalf of Way\u00fau children<\/a>
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\n By Valentina Rozo<\/a>, Diana Guarnizo<\/a>, Mauricio Albarrac\u00edn<\/a>
\n | Jul 26, 2016
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on 19 july, Dejusticia, along with the National Indigenous Organization of Colombia (ONIC), the Civic Committee for the Dignity of La Guajira, and the Committee of Support for Popular Communities (CODACOP), and several leaders of the Way\u00fau peoples, sent to the Supreme Court of Justice of Colombia a brief in support of the citizen-led protection case on behalf of Way\u00fau boys and girls, who are facing grave danger due to a widespread situation of hunger and lack of drinking water in the department of La Guajira.<\/p>\n

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\n Dejusticia Intervenes in Favor of Migrant Woman in Bolivia who Was Sterilized without Her Consent<\/a>
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\n By Diana Guarnizo<\/a>, C\u00e9sar Rodr\u00edguez Garavito<\/a>
\n | May 18, 2016
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Dejusticia intervenes before the Inter-American Court on Human Rights in the case of a migrant woman in Bolivia who was sterilized without her informed consent.<\/p>\n

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\n Citizen Intervention about the Constitutionality of the “Beginning at Birth” Language of Civil Code’s Article 90<\/a>
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\n By Mauricio Albarrac\u00edn<\/a>, Nina Chaparro Gonz\u00e1lez<\/a>
\n | Feb 25, 2016
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Dejusticia intervened before the Constitutional Court to respectfully request that it declares the constitutionality of the “beginning at birth” language of the Civil Code’s article 90.<\/p>\n

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\n Citizen Intervention Litigating Unconstitutionality of Criminal Code’s Regulation 599 of 2000<\/a>
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\n By Mauricio Albarrac\u00edn<\/a>, Paola Molano Ayala<\/a>
\n | Feb 8, 2016
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Intervention claims unconstitutionality of Criminal Code regulations that do not consider gender identity in offenses and cannot justify harsher sentences due to discrimination and harrassment.<\/p>\n

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\n What should the mining licensees prove, which are opponents of land restitution processes of ethnic communities, to show good faith free of guilt?<\/a>
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\n By Sara Milena Ferrer Valencia<\/a>, Angie Paola Botero Giraldo<\/a>
\n | Dec 22, 2015
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We presented an amicus curiae in the land restitution process in support of the Cocomopoca afro-descendant community.<\/p>\n

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\n Intervention before the Constitutional Court in the Writ of Constitutional Protection Revision Process that Demands Protection of the Arauco Indigenous Community<\/a>
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\n By Mauricio Albarrac\u00edn<\/a>, Paola Molano Ayala<\/a>, Carlos Andr\u00e9s Baquero D\u00edaz<\/a>
\n | Oct 19, 2015
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We intervened in the writ of constitutional protection instated by Mission Colombia Foundation in representation of the Arhuaco indigenous community due to the harms caused by the construction of a military base and more than 480 communication antenas and facts regarding this community’s ancestral territory.<\/p>\n

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\n Amicus Curiae in Favor of the Right to Prior Consultation of Mayan Communities in Mexico<\/a>
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\n By Carlos Andr\u00e9s Baquero D\u00edaz<\/a>, C\u00e9sar Rodr\u00edguez Garavito<\/a>
\n | Oct 6, 2015
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This amicus curiae seeks to support the actions of the Mayan communities from Pach-Chan and Canabchen to ask that their right to prior consultation be respected in the case against Monsanto’s genetically modified soy crops.<\/p>\n

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\n Rodrigo Uprimny’s Intervention before the Inter-American Court<\/a>
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\n By Mauricio Albarrac\u00edn<\/a>, Paola Molano Ayala<\/a>
\n | Sep 21, 2015
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See the recording of the public hearing regarding the case against Colombia due to discrimination based on sexual orientation.<\/p>\n

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