Litigation
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
By Dejusticia |
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.
Intervention in the lawsuit against the 122 article of the criminal code related to abortion
By Dejusticia |
The Constitutional Court’s Sentence C-355 of 2006 studied the constitutionality of article 122 of the criminal code, which typifies abortion and decriminalizes it in three circumstances.
Dejusticia Files Suit to Protect the Right to Privacy Under the New Police Code in Colombia
By Dejusticia |
Dejusticia filed a lawsuit before the Constitutional Court, arguing that several articles of Colombian Law 1801 of 2016 (Police Code) violate the right to privacy.
Dejusticia presents on precautionary principle to the Constitutional Court in case of illicit crops fumigation with glyphosate
By Ana Jimena Bautista |
In a Constitutional Protection (tutela) case, Dejusticia argued for the precautionary principle to protect the rights to health, the environment, ethnic territories, peasant territoriality, and water resources in rural communities.
Dejusticia intervenes in lawsuit against Police Code in articles that regulate the right to protest
By Dejusticia |
Congress acted unconstitutionally when it issued the new police code because it attempted to regulate social protest through the wrong legislative channels.
We presented a tutela in favor of the right consumers have to receive information on the amount of sugarpresent in the beverages we drink
By Dejusticia |
Dejusticia and other organizations filed a tutela regarding the Industry and Commerce Oversight Agency ban of a commercial by Educating Consumers that addressed health effects of excessive sugary drinks consumption.
Dejusticia’s intervention on the prohibition of arbitrary detention and discriminatory conduct against women who engage in prostitution
By Dejusticia |
Dejusticia conducted a citizen intervention before the Constitutional
Court regarding the tutela action interposed by two women who engage in
prostitution who were accompanied by Pairs in Action and Reaction Against
Social Exclusion (PARCES) and who asked for the protection of their right on
individual liberty and free circulation, to the vital minimum for subsistence, personal
integrity and work after being taken by police agents in the Butterfly Plaza in
San Victorino in Bogotá.
Dejusticia intervention regarding the invalidity requests of sentence T-445 of 2016 on the popular consultation to decide on mining Pijao
By Dejusticia |
On November 11th, Dejusticia conducted a citizen intervention before the Constitutional Court regarding the invalidation request of sentences T-445 of 2016 presented by the National Mining Agency, the Ministry of Mines and Energy, ASOGRAVAS, the Tolima Miners and Hydrocarbons Association, and the Colombian Mining Association.
Police Code Intervention in defense of informal vendors
By Dejusticia |
Dejusticia conducted an intervention within the constitutionality process of Article 140 of the Police Code (Law 1801 of 2016) that establishes measures to regulate the public space, affecting informal vendors.
