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Dejusticia publications present the results of our academic research, providing useful criteria for academic and public debates on key issues, with a clear sense of how this work can have an impact on the defense of human rights.

All of our publications are available in digital format for free download, while the printed books can be found in bookstores in Bogotá and other cities.

We have four series within the Dejusticia Collection.

  • Dejusticia Series —  Academic book-length publications by Dejusticia members.
  • Documents Series — Short essays presenting academic arguments, public policy proposals or empirical and quantitative analyses on issues of public relevance.
  • Working Papers — English translations of selected titles from our Documents Series.
  • Guides — Public policy analysis and recommendations in a format that is accessible to the general public.

In this page, you can also find Reports and research by Dejusticia members published in other venues, as well as essays and public policy recommendations available in a simple format

Dejusticia Series

Luchar Contra la Corriente

Against the Current: Human Rights and Climate Justice in the Global South

By Jessica Corredor Villamil | Mar 28, 2023
Against the Current is the result of the collective effort of participants from Dejusticia’s seventh annual Global Action-Research Workshop for Young Human Rights Advocates.
Reimagining the Future of Human Rights

Reimagining the Future of Human Rights

By Jessica Corredor Villamil | Jul 28, 2022
The chapters in this book offer a snapshot of the current state of Human Rights that can help guide our work as activists and researchers.
Migration and Decent work

Migration and Decent Work: Challenges for the Global South

By Lucía Ramírez Bolívar, Jessica Corredor Villamil | Apr 5, 2022
This book seeks to strenghten the Human Rights movement through collaboration and the sharing of experiences. The diversity of voices featured here offers a look at migration based on and geared toward the Global South.
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Document Series

football gender

Gender discrimination in Football. Building a Toolbox Toward Gender Equity in the Beautiful Game

By Dejusticia | May 24, 2021
As the most popular sport worldwide, football (or soccer) may be the poster child for lingering gender disparities in sport.
Data Feast

Data Feast: Enterprises and Personal Data in Latin America

By Vivian Newman Pont, Daniel Ospina Celis, Juan Carlos Upegui Mejía | Feb 23, 2021
Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, and Microsoft now possess an ability to reconfigure the behaviour of individuals, clients, and citizens globally. How Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Mexico are responding?

The Sarayaku and the Inter-American System on Human Rights: Justice for the “Medio Dia” People and their Living Jungle

By Mario Melo Cevallos | Nov 27, 2019
Mario Melo Cevallos, lawyer of the Kichwa people of Sarayaku, presents his version of the history of resistance and mobilization of the indigenous people before the State plans to exploit the oil that was in the heart of the Amazon.
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Working Papers

Fiscal policy

Fiscal policy in the regulation of adult-use cannabis in Colombia

By Alejandro Rodríguez Llach, Luis Felipe Cruz, Isabel Pereira Arana | Sep 6, 2022
Drugs are not the Devil, but nor are they child’s play. A drug policy that would be respectful of human rights and safeguard public health must lie at an intermediate point between full liberalization and the prohibition currently in place.
Reimagining the Future of Human Rights

Reimagining the Future of Human Rights

By Jessica Corredor Villamil | Jul 28, 2022
The chapters in this book offer a snapshot of the current state of Human Rights that can help guide our work as activists and researchers.
football gender

Gender discrimination in Football. Building a Toolbox Toward Gender Equity in the Beautiful Game

By Dejusticia | May 24, 2021
As the most popular sport worldwide, football (or soccer) may be the poster child for lingering gender disparities in sport.
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Teaching Materials

The right to freedom of expression: advanced course for judges and legal practitioners in the Americas

By Catalina Botero Marino, Sofía Jaramillo Otoya | Jul 18, 2017
This guide covers the main current legal rules under the inter-American order on freedom of expression.

Land restitution and territories: justifications, dilemmas and strategies

By Sergio Chaparro Hernández, Javier Eduardo Revelo Rebolledo, Nelson Camilo Sánchez León | Jul 17, 2017
The teaching tools presented below aim to offer a database that will allow officials to quickly consult some of the most common challenges in their daily work.
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Guides

Strategic Litigation Manual: From Theory to Practice, Lessons from Colombia & Lebanon

By Gabriela Eslava, Mauricio Albarracín, Maryluz Barragán | Oct 4, 2022
The manual presents the theory of strategic litigation with examples of real cases brought by Dejusticia and The Legal Agenda. We encourage readers to continue to add to it with each new case they have the opportunity to work on.

Executive Summary Decision T-543 of 2017

By Dejusticia | Feb 27, 2018
The Constitutional Court held that the Superintendency of Industry and Commerce censored the organization Educar Consumidores, and it cautioned the Superintendency that henceforth it could not exercise prior control over informational contents.

Arguments and pathways for the ratification of the American Convention on Protecting the Human Rights of Older Persons

By Isabel Pereira Arana | Dec 17, 2016
On June 15, 2015, the General Assembly of the Organization of American States (OAS) adopted the text of the Inter-American Convention on Protecting the Human Rights of Older Persons (Convention on Older Persons).
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Other Publications

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Publications in Other Publishing Houses

Misuse of technologies

Under Surveillance: (Mis)use of Technologies in Emergency Responses

By Dejusticia | Feb 8, 2023
Surveillance technologies exacerbated the impacts of Covid-19 emergency measures on civic space by allowing governments to collect fine-grained data about individuals while also working across large scales of information, in a way that has been unprecedented in the history of global pandemics.

Civil Resistance Against 21st Century Athoritarianism

By Dejusticia | Jun 29, 2021
Thorugh various narratives, the authors seek to recognize new spaces for struggle —such as political activism— to develop action-research tools in a context of crisis.

Peace during Covid-19 in Colombia

By Nelson Camilo Sánchez León, Aaron Alfredo Acosta | Aug 9, 2020
In this second policy briefing, we discuss the implementation of the Final Peace Agreement, its already rocky implementation before the COVID-19 pandemic and some of the greatest challenges as a result of the pandemic.
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Reports

State intelligence gathering on the internet and social media: the case of Colombia

By Lucía Camacho, Daniel Ospina Celis, Juan Carlos Upegui Mejía | Jan 26, 2024
In this report, we explore this subject by drawing on the “Secret Dossiers” case published in 2020 by Semana magazine, which shows how the Colombian state exploits social media and the internet in order to monitor and profile individuals.

IN FOCUS: Facial Recognition Tech Stories and Rights Harms from around the World

By Daniel Ospina Celis | Jan 28, 2021
The indiscriminate use of Facial Recognition Technology (FRT) globally by law enforcement and other government agencies is dangerously normalising surveillance. The full harmful impacts and effects of this technology on people’s lives are only beginning to emerge. A new INCLO report showcasing FRT stories from around the world flags the risk of creating societies where…

Human Rights Due Diligence to Identify, Prevent and Account for Human Rights Impacts by Business Enterprises

By Claret Vargas | May 10, 2018
The aim of this document is to present to the IACHR, as it develops a report with guidelines for Business and Human rights and as it engages more generally with human rights violations in the context of business activities, a summary of the main areas of concern with regard to human rights due diligence.
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