Photo: Ian Lee<\/p>\n
We contribute knowledge and conduct advocacy in the design and application of public policies related to the judicial system and the protection of Constitutional and legal rights.<\/p>\n
We produce qualitative and quantitative research about access to justice, criminal justice and prison policies, reforms to the justice system and police activities. We pay particular attention to the protection of populations that are vulnerable because of their gender, race, socio-economic status or geographic location.<\/p>\n
This book is part of the collection Documents for Peacebuilding in which Dejusticia presents ideas to face the complex challenge of building a stable and lasting peace in the post-agreement period. This specific document addresses the need to strengthen the national judicial system in an articulated manner and with an emphasis on rural areas and on overcoming the armed justice that operates in many places.<\/p>\n
This book analyzes the national and regional standards related to effective criminal defense. It is the result of a joint research project conducted with different organizations including Dejusticia.<\/p>\n
This research project aims to do a diagnostic about the National Program on Multi-Door Courthoses and make some public policy recommendations that could magnify their virtues and improve access to justice.<\/p>\n
Dejusticia carried out citizen interventions regarding the constitutionality of Police Code articles that establish police measures for several categories of persons and activities.<\/p>\n
Dejusticia filed a lawsuit before the Constitutional Court, arguing that several articles of Colombian Law 1801 of 2016 (Police Code) violate the right to privacy.<\/p>\n
Congress acted unconstitutionally when it issued the new police code because it attempted to regulate social protest through the wrong legislative channels.<\/p>\n
At a time when the human rights movement is facing great challenges, and at a moment when there is a widespread recognition that the human rights movement must be more interdisciplinary, and locally connected, human rights advocates should be more purposeful in integrating art, in addition to social sciences, into our practice.<\/p>\n
The unforeseen incidents of bringing together a handful of indigenous leaders from around the world to Colombia for the First Global Workshop for Indigenous Leaders.<\/p>\n
Justice through people’s own hands and the deaths in neighborhoods fights show the failure of the State in several sectors of the city, especially those that are outside the tourist circuit.<\/p>\n
Photo: Piyushgiri Revagar<\/p>\n
The Civil Society Follow-Up Commission Regarding Sentence T-399 (2013) is a body in which people and organizations participate to follow up holistically on the \u201cUnconstitutional State of Things\u201d as determined by the Constitutional Court with regard to prisons and jails. This Commission presented its second report to the Constitutional Court in January, 2017.<\/p>\n
The report refers to prison overcrowding, to impacts on health and personal integrity as well as to situations that especially affect women and the LGBT population who are deprived of liberty.<\/p>\n
The Commission calls for effective guarantees of the rights of the population deprived of liberty, and requests the implementation of thoughtful and coherent criminal policies, rather than populist and reactive policies.<\/p>\n
Read more<\/a> or download<\/a> the full report (in Spanish).<\/p>\n Photo: Lorenalreves<\/p>\n Dejusticia has carried out\u00a0research on the Police, made public policy recommendations and critically analyzed the new Police Code. Our analysis has led to the filing of unconstitutionality claims and interventions before the Constitutional Court.<\/p>\n In addition to research and litigation,\u00a0we have written articles and op-eds on the Police Code.<\/p>\n<\/h3>\n
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