Litigation
Elementa DD.HH. y Dejusticia presentamos un amicus en el proceso que adelanta el Asocazul y Cajar por afectaciones derivadas de aspersiones con glifosato
By Dejusticia |
El glifosato causó daños irreversibles a los campesinos del sur de Bolívar y el Estado debe repararlos. Así lo argumentamos en una intervención ante el Consejo de Estado.
Colombia must obtain resources to guarantee the right to health of Venezuelan migrants: Constitutional Court
By Santiago Ardila Sierra |
The high court protected the right to health of two undocumented Venezuelans and requested the government to advance as “expeditiously and effectively as possible” towards the full realization of migrants’ right to health, regardless of their immigration status. Dejusticia intervened in the case.
Dejusticia intervenes in defense of Venezuelan migrants’ right to health
By Dejusticia |
The Constitutional Court invited Dejusticia to present their legal opinion on two cases concerning the right to health of people coming from Venezuela.
The long wait of the JEP ahead of the decisions of the Constitutional Court and Congress
By Dejusticia |
In the last six months civil society organizations, such as Dejusticia, have called on both institutions to give free rein to the norms that consolidate the Special Jurisdiction for Peace.
Case of indigenous people of Bojayá who could not vote in the plebiscite is about to reach the Court
By Mauricio Albarracín |
Through a tutela, a group of Emberá claimed their rights to political participation and equality, because their economic situation and how far they live made it impossible for them to move to endorse the Peace Agreement. Dejusticia, human rights organizations, and indigenous leaders asked the High Court to review the case.
The Constitutional Court has the last word to save the Ciénaga Grande of Santa Marta
By César Rodríguez Garavito |
The environmental crisis of this ecosystem led fishermen to pursue a legal battle that reached the High Court. In this intervention, we support their demand that environmental authorities take urgent measures to stop the disaster and thus, protect their rights to healthy environment, dignified life and work.
Gender focus in rural reform is important but insufficient
By Ana Jimena Bautista |
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.”
Rural reform decree to resolve historic debt with peasants
By César Rodríguez Garavito |
Terrible conditions in the countryside and lack of access to land are linked to the armed conflict. Point one of the Peace Agreement, which is under study by the Constitutional Court, addresses these issues. Dejusticia presented an intervention supporting most of its content.
The national government geographically isolated Chocó
By Nelson Camilo Sánchez |
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.
