Litigation

Dejusticia sues the Police Code over social protest regulation before the Constitutonal Court for several reasons that make Law 1801 of 2016 unconstitutional. 

Dejusticia intervened litigating the unconstitutionality of several articles in the Mining Code (Law 685 of 2001). The intervention focused on showing how the process to grant mining licenses violated several constitutional principles and rights. 

The intervention regards the constitutionality litigation of Law 1776 of 2016 (Law Zidres), which began due to different litigation that are currently being revised by the Constitutional Court.

on 19 july, Dejusticia, along with the National Indigenous Organization of Colombia (ONIC), the Civic Committee for the Dignity of La Guajira, and the Committee of Support for Popular Communities (CODACOP), and several leaders of the Wayúu peoples, sent to the Supreme Court of Justice of Colombia a brief in support of the citizen-led protection case on behalf of Wayúu boys and girls, who are facing grave danger due to a widespread situation of hunger and lack of drinking water in the department of La Guajira.

Dejusticia filed its intervention with the Constitutional Court of Colombia, in a protection case filed by the Center for the Study of Social Justice, “Tierra Digna.” The case relates to the environmental pollution of this river basin, which has resulted from mechanized mining activities and from the unauthorized exploitation of forest resources.

Coadyuvancia to the tutela process defending the right of citizen participation in the popular consultation about mining proposed by the mayor of Pijao.

Court of Appeals Rejects Defendants’ Attempt to Have Case Dismissed

The public vote of the peace accord to achieve a constitution in peace and a constitutional peace.

We intervened in an unconstitutionality case presented by ex-Public Prosecutor Eduardo Montealegre Lynett, against the expression “agreement”, contained in the general agreement for the end of the armed conflict and building of a stable and durable peace, found in the annex of Resolution 339 of 2012, promulgated by the President of the Republic.