Litigation News
Interventions in lawsuits against four aspects of the New Police Code
By César Rodríguez-Garavito (Retired in 2019), Maryluz Barragán, Mauricio Albarracín, Sebastián Lalinde Ordóñez |
Dejusticia carried out citizen interventions regarding the constitutionality of Police Code articles that establish police measures for several categories of persons and activities.
Dejusticia’s intervention on behalf of the right to health and food of the Vaupés indigenous people
By Celeste Kauffman, Diana Guarnizo, Mauricio Albarracín, Vivian Newman Pont |
Intervention by Dejusticia and other organizations in favor of the right to food and water of the Wayúu children
By Celeste Kauffman, César Rodríguez-Garavito (Retired in 2019), Diana Guarnizo, Mauricio Albarracín |
Request Under Colombian Freedom of Information Laws
By César Rodríguez-Garavito (Retired in 2019), Maria Paula Ángel, Mauricio Albarracín, Vivian Newman Pont |
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.
Lawsuit to protect the right of access to public intelligence information
By César Rodríguez-Garavito (Retired in 2019), Maria Paula Ángel, Mauricio Albarracín, Vivian Newman Pont |
Dejusticia intervened in defense of the amnesty law
By César Rodríguez-Garavito (Retired in 2019), , Diana Isabel Güiza Gómez, Rodrigo Uprimny Yepes, Sebastián Lalinde Ordóñez |
Dejusticia intervened before the Constitutional Court in the process of constitutional revision of the law that grants amnesties, pardons and special penal treatments (Law 1820 of 2016).
Intervention before the Constitutional Court in the revision of Decree-Law 249 of 2017, which regulates a specific hiring process for manual eradication for the implementation of the peace process
By César Rodríguez-Garavito (Retired in 2019), Diana Isabel Güiza Gómez, Isabel Pereira Arana, Luis Felipe Cruz, Maryluz Barragán, Mauricio Albarracín |
Dejusticia asked the Constitutional Court to declare invalid Decree-Law 249 of 2017 (DL 249/2017), for two reasons: in issuing this rule, the President of the Republic exceeded the special powers for peace because it did not demonstrate the strict necessity to regulate this subject by this extraordinary way; and the contracting procedure that regulates DL 249/2017 violates the constitutional principles governing public procurement.
Intervention before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in follow-up to the situation of the Sarayaku people of Ecuador
By Dejusticia |
Dejusticia, EarthRights International and the Foundation for Due Process presented an intervention before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in the follow-up that this court is giving to the situation of the Sarayaku people of Ecuador.