Issue-Rule of Law
Resisting authoritarian tendencies in Latin America
Although the fight against authoritarian tendencies cannot be addressed simply with rights and the people who defend them, we believe that these types of strategies, insofar as they articulate different social sectors, contribute to the deepening of democratic practices.
Read MoreData Feast: Enterprises and Personal Data in Latin America
Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, and Microsoft now possess an ability to reconfigure the behaviour of individuals, clients, and citizens globally. How Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Mexico are responding?
Read MoreSupreme Court of Justice protects the right to protest against police violence
The Supreme Court of Justice of Colombia protected the right of all people to demonstrate and the duty of the authorities to “ward off, prevent and punish the systematic, violent and arbitrary intervention of the public force in demonstrations and protests.”
Read MoreWe won the Tang Prize!
Dejusticia, a Colombian think-do-tank with 15 years of history, is one of the three organizations in the world awarded this year with the Tang Prize in the Rule of Law category, and the first Latin American laureate in the history of the Tang Prize. This award, delivered biennially since 2014 by the Academia Sinica (Taiwan),…
Read MoreAccountability of Google and other data-driven business models: data protection in the digital age
In this document we analyze the privacy policies of 30 companies with data-driven business models that collect data in Colombia and identify practices that have not been sufficiently contemplated by the personal data protection regime currently applicable in our country.
Read MoreDisclosing public servants’ private interests: A powerful but unexploited anti-corruption tool
Both the legislation and the case law of other countries have made considerable efforts to exploit the potential of the disclosure of private interests of public servants as an anti-corruption tool. In contrast, Colombia has yet to adopt these reforms and judicial pronouncements.
Read MoreEntre coacción y colaboración: Verdad judicial, actores económicos y conflicto armado en Colombia
While it is clear that many of the economic actors lack responsibility in the conflict and others have been victims of it, some research has shown that some did have a decisive role in the origin, development and perpetuation of the cycles of armed conflict in the country.
Read MoreVacillation towards migrants
The situation of Venezuelan migrants is too serious and urgent to equivocate on good faith and sway with the changing political circumstances of each government.
Read MorePreventing Corporate Intimidation of Rightsholders
Unfavorable news, a negative opinion of an opinion leader, or even an unfounded rumor can affect companies whose value depends to a large extent on the confidence of their shareholders and the public in their good behavior and the possibilities of obtaining profits by investing in them.
Read MoreThe Yukpas: The Indigenous community who migrated to Colombia in search of rice
One of Colombia’s greatest challenges as it relates to Venezuela’s migration crisis is the ethnic group who came from the neighboring country, having fled the crisis and asking to be recognized as binational citizens. They are some 300 people who decry the death of two of their children, the disappearances of some of their members, and the consistent threats they face.
Read MoreIncreasing Accountability
All Colombian society, especially economic actors who had no connection to the conflict, in an effort to go beyond political differences and as a gesture of solidarity towards the victims, should commit themselves to claim and promote victims’ rights without restrictions.
Read MoreTheoretical musings
Perhaps the greatest political challenge that current democracies face is to rescue something of the public and civic virtue that the Greeks discussed, without falling into the different populisms that today offer themselves as saviors of society.
Read MoreA single court?
The problem of “a single court,” proposed by Uribismo, is that in the concrete situation of Colombia, it contributes very little to the solution of the problems of our judicial system, and on the contrary, presents many risks.
Read MoreWhat justice reforms?
Several presidential candidates propose a justice reform; some have even said that they will hold a Constituent Assembly to achieve it. But beyond that, the candidates could discuss policies that would strengthen access to justice and the system’s legitimacy.
Read MoreThis is what we lose when a social leader is attacked
It’s time to stop talking about leaders who are killed or threatened. It is entire communities who are affected when leaders are no longer present. Inevitably, this vulnerability opens the door for armed actors to settle in and take control of the territory.
Read MoreDrawing lessons from the Colombian elections
The recent elections taught us that previous reforms have reduced a major problem we had in the late 1990s: extreme political fragmentation.
Read MoreDejusticia defends freedom of expression and political cartoons
A citizen sued the caricaturist known as Matador, arguing that one of his cartoons is slander. Dejusticia argues that political criticism and artistic expression are protected by the Constitution.
Read MoreWith tutela, 1,700 male and female peasants ask to be included in the census
“For peasants to count, they have to be counted,” is the slogan of the plaintiffs who have been rejected by the government during the last two years after asking to be identified in the 2018 census.
Read MoreWe call for immediate action to address the judicial crisis
The Center for the Study of the Law, Justice and Society (Dejusticia) and the Excellence in Justice Corporation (CEJ), call on the high courts and the Attorney General to take immediate measures of transparency to face corruption and restore public confidence in the judiciary.
Read More“Today, even Chavistas are persecuted in Venezuela”: Rafael Uzcátegui
The director of the Venezuelan NGO, Provea, visiting Colombia on invitation from Dejustica, speaks about the escape of prosecutor Luisa Ortega and the possibility of a new wave of protests in principal cities around the country.
Read MoreThe Agreements for the Substitution of Illicit Crops must have a gender perspective
GPaz and Dejusticia presented contributions for the inclusion of the gender approach in the route to the formulation and implementation of Collective Agreements within the framework of the National Comprehensive Substitution Plan.
Read MoreOn corruption in Colombia: conceptual framework, diagnosis and policy proposals
According to the Corruption Perceptions Index by Transparency International for 2016, Colombia obtained a rating of 37/100. How to characterize the phenomenon of corruption in Colombia and what academic and public policy strategies can be adopted to counteract it?
Read MoreThe national government geographically isolated Chocó
We intervened to support a tutela that requires the government to pave the
Quibdó-Medellín and Quibdó-Pereira roads: a promise that has historically been unfulfilled.
The national government geographically isolated Chocó
We intervened to support a tutela that requires the government to pave the
Quibdó-Medellín and Quibdó-Pereira roads: a promise that has historically been unfulfilled.
The migratory wall facing refugees
What is it like to migrate to Colombia and the United States? The stories of Johan and Sonia, two of the 65.6 million people who have been forcibly displaced around the world.
Read MorePrison is not the only sanction in transitional justice mechanisms
César Rodríguez defended that the Comprehensive System of Truth, Justice, Reparation and Guarantees of Non-Repetition is in line with the Constitution. Regarding penalties, he affirmed that international law discusses effective sanctions, not imprisonment.
Read MoreThe right to freedom of expression: advanced course for judges and legal practitioners in the Americas
This guide covers the main current legal rules under the inter-American order on freedom of expression.
Read MoreInterventions in lawsuits against four aspects of the New Police Code
Dejusticia carried out citizen interventions regarding the constitutionality of Police Code articles that establish police measures for several categories of persons and activities.
Read MoreRequest Under Colombian Freedom of Information Laws
Our request highlights both what has been done and what remains to be done for the creation and implementation of the Legal Commission for Monitoring Intelligence and Counterintelligence Activities.
Read MoreLawsuit to protect the right of access to public intelligence information
Dejusticia filed a lawsuit challenging Decree 857 of 2014, which regulates the Colombian Law of Intelligence and Counterintelligence, for violating some of the necessary requirements that must be fulfilled before the right of access to public information held by intelligence agencies can be restricted.
Read MoreAccess to intelligence and counterintelligence archives in the framework of the post-agreement
In this text, we offer options so that transitional justice mechanisms and society at large can have access to intelligence and counterintelligence archives, which relate to the armed conflict in Colombia.
Read MorePeace territories: the construction of the local state in Colombia
This book offers diagnoses and proposals surrounding one key challenge of peace building: carrying out out a large national state-building project on the periphery of the country.
Read MoreDemocracy, Justice & Society: Ten Years of Research at Dejusticia
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.
Read MoreDejusticia Files Suit to Protect the Right to Privacy Under the New Police Code in Colombia
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.
Read MoreExtractivism versus human rights: chronicles of the mined fields in the Global South
Un nuevo acercamiento a los derechos humanos: escritura reflexiva por autores activistas de organizaciones defensoras que considera el potencial, los logros y desafíos de su práctica.
Read MorePolice Code Intervention in defense of informal vendors
Dejusticia conducted an intervention within the constitutionality process of Article 140 of the Police Code (Law 1801 of 2016) that establishes measures to regulate the public space, affecting informal vendors.
Read MoreDejusticia sues the Police Code over protest regulation
Dejusticia sues the Police Code over social protest regulation before the Constitutonal Court for several reasons that make Law 1801 of 2016 unconstitutional.
Read MoreAlternative report to the United Nations Committee Against Forced Displacement
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.
Read MoreCitizen Intervention Litigating the Unconstitutionality against Legislative Act, Which Reforms Military Tribunals
Our intervention highlighted that although International Humanitarian Law specifically regulates contexts of war, this does not mean that, from the standard of specialty, the reform introduced by the Legislative Act 02 of 2015 exclude International Human Rights Law standards.
Read MoreDejusticia Intervenes in Favor of an Activist that Defended the Sawhoya Community in Paraguay
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.
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