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Internationalization<\/h3>\n

Litigation<\/p>\n


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\n We presented a tutela in favor of the right consumers have to receive information on the amount of sugarpresent in the beverages we drink<\/a>
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\n By Gabriela Eslava<\/a>, Diana Guarnizo<\/a>, Maria Paula \u00c1ngel<\/a>
\n | Nov 28, 2016
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Dejusticia and other organizations filed a tutela regarding the Industry and Commerce Oversight Agency ban of a commercial by Educating Consumers that addressed health effects of excessive sugary drinks consumption.
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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 Intervention Litigating Article that Establishes Sales Tax<\/a>
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\n By Andr\u00e9s Castro<\/a>, Sergio Chaparro Hern\u00e1ndez<\/a>, Paola Molano Ayala<\/a>
\n | Mar 4, 2016
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We intervened before the Constitution Court litigating the unconstitutionality of Numera 3 of Article 171 of Law 1607 of 2012, that modifies taxes and establish a sales tax.<\/p>\n

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\n Dejusticia’s Director Intervenes before the Inter-American Court on Human Rights on Fazenda Brazil Workers Case<\/a>
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\n | Feb 26, 2016
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C\u00e9sar Rodr\u00edguez Garavito, Dejusticia’s director, intervened as an expert witness in the first case that debates forced work in the Americas, regarding the complaint of slave work in Brazil.<\/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 Dejusticia Intervenes in Favor of an Activist that Defended the Sawhoya Community in Paraguay<\/a>
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\n By Celeste Kauffman<\/a>, Carlos Andr\u00e9s Baquero D\u00edaz<\/a>, C\u00e9sar Rodr\u00edguez Garavito<\/a>
\n | Aug 12, 2015
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The International Network for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ESCR-Net) and Dejusticia presented an intervention in favor of the lawyer Julia Cabello, executive coordinator of Tierraviva, who was sued by the Minister Gladys Bareiro de Módica.<\/p>\n

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\n Expert Opinion about Administrative Reparations before the Inter-American Human Rights Court<\/a>
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\n By Nelson Camilo S\u00e1nchez Le\u00f3n<\/a>
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Camilo Sánchez, transitional justice research coordinator, presented an expert opinion about the administrative reparations program and the compliance of the Land Restitution and Victims’ Law to international standards before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, within the framework of the case “Yarce and others v. Colombia.”<\/p>\n

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\n Press Release – International human rights network intervenes in case challenging large-scale disconnection of water supply to tens of thousands of low-income residents in Detroit<\/a>
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\n By Celeste Kauffman<\/a>, C\u00e9sar Rodr\u00edguez Garavito<\/a>
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New York. February 9, 2015. The International Network for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ESCR-Net), a global network of over 220 groups and 50 individual advocates from around the world working to secure economic and social justice through human rights, has requested leave from the U.S. District Court to be recognized as amicus curiae[1] in the case of Lyda et al. v. City of Detroit[2]in support of residents challenging the City of Detroit’s decision to cut off water supply to thousands of households unable to pay their bills.<\/p>\n

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