Defending the Colombian Peace Agreement through strategic litigation
Dejusticia’s legal support for the upholding of the peace agreement illustrates the vital role of an organized and alert civil society in ensuring the implementation of policy. This oversight role is among the most important functions of civil society in a democratic system.
By Fabián Eduardo Mendoza Pulido | | Colombian Peace Agreement, Final Agreement, Total Peace Policy, Transitional Justice
Resolution for inclusive tax cooperation will have its most important discussion at the UN today
Civil society is calling for building a fairer, more inclusive and effective tax system that allows countries, as a whole, to fight tax abuses that take away funds needed to promote human rights and address climate crises.
By Dejusticia | | Fiscal justice, Human Rights, Tax cooperation, UN
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Defending the Colombian Peace Agreement through strategic litigation
By Fabián Eduardo Mendoza Pulido | | Colombian Peace Agreement, Final Agreement, Total Peace Policy, Transitional Justice
By: Roberto Porras and Fabian Mendoza The negotiated peace agreement between the Colombian government and Colombia's largest guerilla group-the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-People's Army (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia-Ejército ...
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Resolution for inclusive tax cooperation will have its most important discussion at the UN today
By Dejusticia | | Fiscal justice, Human Rights, Tax cooperation, UN
In the upcoming United Nations General Assembly scheduled for this week, a discussion and potential vote will take place in the Second Committee, responsible for international economic cooperation matters, regarding ...
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Police abuse with less lethal weapons in protests: our complaint before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
By Dejusticia | | Human Rights, Less lethal weapons, mobilizations, police abuse, Social Protests
Twenty-three international organizations have come together to condemn state violence amid the increasing use of less lethal weapons in public demonstrations and the violation of human rights by security forces. ...
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From disarmament to inclusive reintegration: lessons from Colombia and El Salvador
By Paola Molano Ayala | | Armed Conflict, Peace, Reitegration, Transitional Justice, Womens Rights
The aftermath of a conflict or an authoritative regime can be a tenuous time. One of the key questions to address during this period is how to avoid the recurrence ...
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5 urgent actions to solve the serious humanitarian crisis in Palestine
By Dejusticia | | Democratic spaces, gaza, Israel, Palestine, Peace
A group of 185 organizations and other international civil society actors, including Dejusticia, signed a letter led by the Landscapes of Hope initiative in which we call on senior officials ...
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Global drug policy: the transition from “crime and punishment” to safeguarding human rights
By Diego Zambrano Benavides | | Global drug policy, OHCHR, United Nations
The past wednesday, September 20, 2023, could be considered a historic day for global drug policy. The Office of the High Commission for Human Rights (OHCHR), which has remained relatively ...
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The immigration policy of the United States and its implications in Latin America
By Ximena Ortiz Ortiz, Lina Arroyave Velásquez | | México, migration, Refugees, United States
The United States has implemented different measures to prevent the entry of migrants and refugees into its territory, including extending its immigration policy to Latin American countries.
Lea más The binationality of the Wayuu people: the pending debt of Venezuela and Colombia
By Dayanna Gladys Palmar Uriana, Paulo Ilich Bacca | | Colombia, Indigenous Peoples, migración, migration, Refugees, Venezuela
The Wayuu arrive in Colombia to seek refuge but crashes with a wall that prevents them from accessing social services and fundamental rights: the Colombian State has not recognized the binationality of the Wayuu people in practice.
Lea más The binationality of the Wayuu people: the vision from their cosmology
By Dayanna Gladys Palmar Uriana, Paulo Ilich Bacca | | Colombia, Indigenous Peoples, migración, migration, Refugees, Venezuela
The Wayuu people have demanded the recognition of their binationality, appealing to the legal and political link that unites them with Colombia and Venezuela, which should translate into a full guarantee of rights and citizenship in both countries.
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We travel with 20 indigenous activists of the world to the heart of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta. Listen to this story about the Kankuama Resistance.
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Discover some of the documentary pieces that we have made. Indigenous resistance, migration of Venezuelans to Colombia and stories of women coca growers, are some of our topics of interest.
