The Regulation of Voluntary Interruptions of Pregnancy in Colombia
By Annika Dalén, Diana Esther Guzmán Rodríguez, Paola Molano Ayala |
This document describes the current status of voluntary interruption of pregnancy (VIP) regulation in Colombia.
Racial Discrimination at Work: an Experimental Study in Bogotá
By Dejusticia |
Racial Discrimination in the Labor Market: An Experimental Study in Bogotá
By César Rodríguez-Garavito (Retired in 2019), Sebastián Villamizar Santamaría |
This paper documents the first Colombian quantitative study on racial discrimination in the labor market, specifically in Bogotá. The study finds that the skin color has a direct and negative effect on the chances of finding a job.
Between Stereotypes: Labor Trajectories for Men and Women in Colombia
By Annika Dalén, Diana Esther Guzmán Rodríguez |
Public Order and Racial Profiling: Afro-Colombian Experiences with the Cali Police
By Yukyan Lam |
This book documents the Police Forces' treatment of the Afro-Colombian population in Cali.
Insufficient Judicial Independence, Deformed Preventive Prison: The cases of Argentina, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru
By Carolina Bernal Uribe, Miguel Emilio La Rota |
In this study we analyze the main pressures and interferences to which Colombian judges and prosecutors are subject when they have to make decisions regarding the imposition of preventive detention
National Survey of Legal Needs
By Miguel Emilio La Rota, Rodrigo Uprimny Yepes, Sebastián Lalinde Ordóñez |
Institutions and Drug-trafficking: the Judicial Geography of Drug-Related Crimes in Colombia
By Felipe Jiménez Ángel, José Rafael Espinosa Restrepo, Mauricio García Villegas |
This text shows how, in addition to being disproportionately punitive, the way the government implements its drug laws is discriminatory. Drug laws are applied in certain geographic regions more than others, and some crimes are prosecuted more than others.
Outrageous Penalties: Disproportionality in the penalization of drugs crimes in Colombia
By Diana Esther Guzmán Rodríguez, Jorge Alberto Parra Norato, Rodrigo Uprimny Yepes |
This study supports with solid empirical evidence that drug policies in Colombia that resort to the use of criminal law do not respect the principle of proportionality and therefore are not justifiable from the constitutional point of view.
Addicted to punishment: The disproportionality of drug laws in Latin America
By Dejusticia |
Addicted to Punishment: The disproportionality of drug laws in Latin America
By Diana Esther Guzmán Rodríguez, Jorge Alberto Parra Norato, Rodrigo Uprimny Yepes |
This document describes the disproportionality of the drug-related crimes in seven Latin American countries. Even though they are punishable behavior that does not directly or indirectly harm third parties, studies of drug crime related laws show a regional tendency to increase the use of criminal law
Goodbye river: The Dispute over Land, Water and the Rights of the Indigenous living near the Urrá dam
By César Rodríguez-Garavito (Retired in 2019), Natalia Orduz |
This books tell the story of the dam of Urrá through the central themes of violence and the dispute for land and the natural resources in Colombia.