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Cosmopolitan human rights
“National human rights campaigns have often been heroic and must continue, but they should be expanded or complemented by global struggles.”
Read MoreJustice, crisis and reforms
These environmental, climate and economic crises have been compounded by the return of international wars and their enormous toll of both victims and damage, as well as the rise of authoritarian regimes.
Read MoreEvery dose counts (and costs): Access to antiretrovirals and compulsory licensing
In Colombia, HIV is a visible and urgent challenge that affects thousands of people and puts many more at risk. Despite World Health Organization (WHO) recommendations to use Dolutegravir as first-line treatment due to its high effectiveness and minimal side effects, the high cost of the drug prevented its access to a large part of the population.
Read MoreOn the path to corporate accountability: the Global South and the new European due diligence law
Despite the fact that most corporate violations are concentrated in the countries of the South, the drafting of regulations continues to come from the North, for the most part unilaterally and focused on the prevention of violations.
Read MoreAdvertising, children and the protection of rights: can they go together?
Despite the growing evidence of the harmful impact of advertising on children’s diets and the increasing recognition that advertising of ultra-processed products is harmful to children’s health, as of May 2022, only 60 countries have adopted policies to restrict advertising of ultra-processed products to which children are exposed.
Read MoreBusiness, human rights and a Latin American agenda for regulation
The impacts of some companies on social rights, the lack of regulation in this field, and Dejusticia’s efforts to build a Latin American agenda to promote common standards of responsibility.
Read MoreLatin America in 2024, according to Paulo Ilich Bacca
Our deputy director answers five questions about some urgent debates in the region for this year.
Read MoreEcuador: a question of security in Latin America
The declaration of a state of emergency in Ecuador reveals security challenges that threaten democracy and human rights in the region. What are the solutions to the crisis and how to protect fundamental rights in a context of increasing violence?
Read MoreWomen’s football shone at the World Cup, and so do inequalities
The Colombian Women’s Football Team achieved a feat by reaching the quarterfinals of the World Cup, but the path to achieve it has been full of discrimination, precariousness, sexual harassment and vetoes. Women have fought to enter a historically masculine place.
Read MoreProtests in Colombia: 650 civil society organizations call for urgent action from IACHR
Given the fragile institutional situation and the seriousness of human rights violations in Colombia, a group of 650 organizations, including Dejusticia, made a joint call to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) asking to energetically condemn the acts of violence and repression of social protest in Colombia and to visit the country to verify…
Read MoreWhy (don’t) we sleep?
Bad sleep is the great blind spot of public and private health. The damage from sleeping less than seven hours a day on a regular basis is equivalent to the damage from excessive smoking or drinking.
Read MoreTwo possible worlds, two feelings
Globally, we live a new spring of hope, but also a new winter of despair. Despite advances in social welfare, the shadow of populism and the increase in inequality remind us that there are reasons to work for a better world.
Read MoreIt is time for moderation
If there was an index to measure the rage of countries, Colombia would rank among the first. Today, we see a closer manifestation of the Colombian rage in the electoral debate, which is full of insults.
Read MoreColombia: an act of faith?
Despite the fact that we, Colombians, have a certain sentimental nationalism, we lack the capacity to act collectively to undertake large global projects. We must build national cohesion based on a story that unites us within our own diversity.
Read MoreHappy and developed countries
I am writing these lines as I think about the tragedy that happened this week in Florida, where, once again, a man massacred several children in a school, shocking parents and the entire country.
Read MoreThe other war
In Colombia, about four thousand people are killed each year in motorcycle accidents. Motorcycles are leaving behind a tragedy of the dead and the disabled, which responds to the lack of education and effective regulation.
Read More“La señorita María” will not make part of the census
The census that began this week does not have the questions to properly account for the LGBT population, or the peasant population, or to evaluate multidimensional poverty.
Read MoreMinimalist peace and robust peace
The first conclusion is that minimalist peace is the only possible peace with the State and the political class that we currently have. Robust peace will only be viable with changes in power and the political system, driven by civil society, movements and parties, beginning with parliamentary and presidential elections next year.
Read MoreColombia Peace Agreement: participation and protest
The 2016 Peace Agreement between the Colombian government and FARC includes explicit aims to improve democratic participation and protect the right to protest. But how are these goals being threatened?
Read MoreWhat happens with rural reform in Montes de María?
The delays in the construction of Development Programs with a Territorial Approach are shortening the time to guarantee spaces for the effective participation of communities and can endanger this citizen exercise if it overlaps with electoral campaigns.
Read MoreTerritorial Justice System for Peace
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.
Read MoreGender focus in rural reform is important but insufficient
The Gender-in-Peace Working Group -GPAZ, a group of which Dejusticia is a member, took part in the Public Hearing convened by the Constitutional Court, within the framework of the informal constitutional review of Decree 902 of 2017 “to facilitate the implementation of the Comprehensive Rural Reform contemplated in the Final Land Agreement, specifically the procedure for access and formalization and the Land Fund.”
Read MoreDejusticia and Cimarrón intervened before the Constitutional Court to oppose racial discrimination in the workplace
The Constitutional Court is about to end the legal struggle that Jonh Jak Becerra undertook six years ago, after being a victim of racial discrimination at work. Dejusticia and Cimarrón called for the protection of the rights to equality, non-discrimination, decent work and due process.
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.
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