Six Cities, Four Countries, One Right: A comparative analysis of educational politics

Luis Eduardo Perez Murcia, Rodrigo Uprimny Yepes, Natalia Carolina Sandoval Rojas, Clara Márquez Vásquez

This book offers a collection of essays that analyze and compare the educational public politics of Bogotá with those other cities and other countries in Latin America.

Serious Social Rights: Toward a dialogue between rights and public politics

César Rodríguez Garavito, Rodrigo Uprimny Yepes, Luis Eduardo Perez Murcia

Offering an interdisciplinary analysis on the conceptual relations between the Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (DESC) and public policies, the authors maintain that the protection of rights does not have to be incumbent only on the judges. The authors contribute to bridging the normative nature of rights and the technical and economic nature of public policies. The book investigates the application of various social rights with an emphasis on the right to education.

The Right to Health

Diana Guarnizo, Rodrigo Uprimny Yepes

This report is the result of an investigation that assessed the Colombian health system from a human rights perspective. The focus was on the current inspection, surveillance and control practices. The collaborative study was funded by Catalan Agency Development Cooperation and carried forth by Dejusticia in conjunction with the Nation’s Attorney General.

Recomendations

Diana Esther Guzmán Rodríguez, María Paula Saffon

This book focuses on different themes regarding the right to truth, justice and reparation of women victims of the armed conflict in Colombia. Themes addressed include: access to justice, attention to and protection of victims, reparation, monitoring and evaluation of the disarmament process, demobilization and reintegration of armed actors, and collective memory. The recommended means for intervention outlined in the book focus on the need to guarantee a process in which truth, justice and reparation account for the particular needs of female victims.

FTA, Is It Constitutional?

Diana Rodríguez Franco

This book presents a systematization of the debates that transpired at the forum, “FTA, Is It Constitutional?” The purpose of the forum was to examine various legal aspects of the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between Colombia and the United States. The book highlights elements harm the Constitution and supports arguments for a controlled scenario of the constitutionality of the FTA.

Courts and social change. How the Constitutional Court changed the forced displacement in Colombia

César Rodríguez Garavito, Diana Rodríguez Franco

What role do the courts play in a democracy? What kind of judicial interventions are required to promote public policies that effectively guarantee rights and encourage social change? This book answers these and other questions, parting from of one of the most important cases in comparative constitutionalism: the intervention of the Colombian Constitutional Court to protect the rights of victims of forced displacement. Based on interdisciplinary research, the authors offer a new analytical framework and study the effects of the decision of the Court (T-025 of 2004) and the dynamic monitoring process that has taken place since then.

Todo list: proposals for the formulation of public policies on reparations in Colombia

DeJusticia *, Centro Internacional de Justicia Transicional (Editor)

The purpose of this document is to initiate a discussion on mechanisms and policy options on which we could rely for the design and implementation of a restitution massive program. This proposal supports the idea of envisaging ample targets for a land restitution process to be successful. This would enable its coordination with other government measures of land ownership redistribution aimed at the transformation of agrarian relations in the country. Although our proposed program of restitution is not intended as a mechanism designed to achieve other objectives such as land reform or rural income generation, we understand that these three state actions must be intrinsically linked in order to produce transformative effects that allow the optimal development of the restitution process.

Unequal Justice? Gender and victim rights in Colombia

Rodrigo Uprimny Yepes, Diana Esther Guzmán Rodríguez

The Women, Peace, and Security program of UNIFEM promotes gender justice in Colombia with the aim of ensuring the observance of women's human rights and their access to justice in terms of equity.

In "Unequal justice? Gender and victim rights in Colombia," a select

Is The FTA between the United States and Colombia Constitutional?

Diana Rodríguez Franco, César Rodríguez Garavito

En este documento se explica el control constitucional del TLC y se analizan cuatro cláusulas relacionadas con propiedad intelectual, solución de controversias, expropiaciones indirectas y reclamaciones sin infracción, que pueden vulnerar las normas constitucionales sobre el derecho a la salud, el principio de igualdad y la capacidad regulatoria y jurisdiccional del Estado.