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Interventions 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.

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Dejusticia’s intervention on behalf of the right to health and food of the Vaupés indigenous people

Dejusticia intervened before the Constitutional Court in support of a tutela filed on behalf of indigenous peoples in Vaupés for violations of their right to health.
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Intervention by Dejusticia and other organizations in favor of the right to food and water of the Wayúu children

Dejusticia intervened before the Constitutional Court in support of a tutela on behalf of Wayúu children in La Guajira, for violations of their rights to food and water.
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Request 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.

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Lawsuit 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.
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Dejusticia intervened in defense of the amnesty law

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).

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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

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.

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Intervention before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in follow-up to the situation of the Sarayaku people of Ecuador

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.

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Intervention in an advisory opinion before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in relation to gender identity and economic rights of same-sex couples

On December 6, 2016, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights invited Dejusticia to present written comments, within the framework of an Advisory Opinion requested by the State of Costa Rica in May 2016.
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