Litigation

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.

Dejusticia defended the constitutionality of the Legislative Act that gives legal certainty to the Final Agreement, and stressed that its contents respond to fundamental rights and international humanitarian law norms.

What is the nature, scope and type of control that the Constitutional Court must exercise over the Legislative Acts issued to implement the Final Peace Agreement? Intervention by Rodrigo Uprimny before the High Court.

Dejusticia defended the decree that allows the Constitutional Court to suspend ordinary processes to concentrate on the norms that implement the Peace Agreement, but emphasized that this interruption can not be undefined.

The decree meets the formal and material requirements to be declared enforceable. The decree was issued by the president, who is the competent authority and is also aligned with the criteria of connectedness and strict necessity.

In an intervention before the Constitutional Court, Dejusticia argued that this norm conforms to the Constitution. However, the organization warned that the deadline to determine the beneficiaries should be reconsidered because it could leave out a group of peasants living in poverty.

We support the freedom of expression of the NGO Educar Consumidores. They had released a commercial that talked about the content and health effects of sugary drinks, but the Superintendency of Industry and Commerce ordered to suspend its transmission.

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.

Dejusticia intervened before the Constitutional Court in the process of revision of the immigration and foreigners law of 1920, which considers communist and anarchist people as a danger to the stability of the public powers.