Compliance with self-regulation initiatives established by the industry on the promotion, advertising and sponsorship of ultra-processed foods aimed at children
By Valentina Rozo |
Summary for civil society and policy makers.
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Overweight and counterweights
By Valentina Rozo |
Through field work in twelve schools in Ciudad Bolívar in Bogotá, this document shows the need for the State to regulate and monitor the supply and advertising of ultra-processed food products in school environments.
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Sobredosis carcelaria y política de drogas en América Latina
By Colectivo de Estudios Drogas y Derecho – CEDD, Sergio Chaparro Hernández |
El CEDD publica su estudio sobre los impactos de las políticas de drogas en el sistema penitenciario de 10 países de América Latina. El uso excesivo del derecho penal y de sanciones privativas de libertad, tiene consecuencias sobre la vida de las personas en los sistemas penitenciarios de Argentina, Bolivia, Brasil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Estados Unidos, México, Perú y Uruguay.
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Globalization and Human Rights Book Series
By César Rodríguez-Garavito (Retired in 2019) |
The series provides unique and multi-disciplinary perspectives on the interface of the global economy and human rights. It offers space for exploring the challenges of globalization, the role of human rights in framing and shaping regulation and politics and, more critically whether human rights are a mere product or legitimation of globalization.
Read more Monitoring report on Resolution 1325 of the United Nations, Colombia 2017
By Dejusticia |
he Sixth Monitoring Report of Resolution 1325 is a monitoring and implementation instrument, produced by Coalition 1325 since 2011. This report becomes important in the framework of the implementation of the Final Agreement between the Colombian Government and the FARC-EP, It follows up on Resolution 1325 and provides tools to assess the application of the gender approach and the participation of women in the implementation of the Agreement.
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Prison or death. Professional secrecy as a fundamental guarantee in abortion cases.
By Ana Jimena Bautista |
This book raises some legal reflections on the importance of professional secrecy by health professionals in the cases of women who come to health centers looking for help after having terminated their pregnancy clandestinely, endangering their health and even their life.
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The struggle for social rights
By César Rodríguez Garavito (Se retiró en 2019) |
This book, in addition to showing to what extent social rights rulings are implemented in the world, also studies causal factors and strategies that have shown practical utility.
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Land in transition: transitional justice, land restitution and agrarian policy in Colombia
By Nelson Camilo Sánchez León |
This new Dejusticia publication presents an analysis on the transition processes in Colombia in order to address conflicts related to land ownership, tenure and use.
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Business and Human Rights. Beyond the End of the Beginning
By César Rodríguez-Garavito (Retired in 2019), Claret Vargas |
The regulation of business in the global economy poses one of the main challenges for governance, as illustrated by the dynamic scholarly and policy debates about the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and a possible international treaty on the matter.
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Land restitution, housing policy, and productive projects: Ideas for the post-agreement period
By Aura Bolívar Jaime, Angie Paola Botero Giraldo, |
This document aims to examine the results of the land restitution process, with emphasis on its articulation with housing and income generation policies, central components that restitution and return require in order to guarantee victims decent living conditions in terms of livability and economic sustainability.
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Coca, institutions, and development
By Sergio Chaparro Hernández, Luis Felipe Cruz |
This document aims to analyze the challenges that coca producing municipalities face in two crucial aspects in the future: the construction of a local State and the definition of a human development path that is both integral and participatory.
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A balancing act. Drug policy in Colombia after UNGASS 2016
By Isabel Pereira Arana, Luis Felipe Cruz |
This document is the result of a project developed by Dejusticia in cooperation with the Ministry of Justice and Law of Colombia and the British Embassy in Colombia, with funds from the United Kingdom through its embassy in Colombia.
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State intelligence gathering on the internet and social media: the case of Colombia
By Lucía Camacho, Daniel Ospina Celis, Juan Carlos Upegui Mejía |
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.
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Against the Current: Human Rights and Climate Justice in the Global South
By Jessica Corredor Villamil |
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.
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Under Surveillance: (Mis)use of Technologies in Emergency Responses
By Dejusticia |
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.
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Inteligencia estatal en internet y redes sociales: la privacidad bajo amenaza
By Lucía Camacho, Daniel Ospina Celis, Juan Carlos Upegui Mejía |
La inteligencia estatal hace mucho que se trasladó a la internet y las redes sociales. Esto, por supuesto, representa riesgos adicionales al ejercicio del derecho a la privacidad en línea que ya enfrenta serios obstáculos por cuenta de prácticas nocivas que desempeñan otros actores.
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Analysis of a tax on sugar-sweetened beverages in the Colombian labor market
By Randy Sebastián Villalba Arango, Diana Guarnizo |
El impuesto a las bebidas azucaradas ha sido una política de salud pública implementada para desincentivar los altos niveles de consumo de estas bebidas. Sin embargo, según la industria, esta medida promueve el despido masivo de trabajadores. ¿Eso es cierto?
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Strategic Litigation Manual: From Theory to Practice, Lessons from Colombia & Lebanon
By Gabriela Eslava, Mauricio Albarracín, Maryluz Barragán |
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.
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Fiscal policy in the regulation of adult-use cannabis in Colombia
By Alejandro Rodríguez Llach, Luis Felipe Cruz, Isabel Pereira Arana |
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.
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Reimagining the Future of Human Rights
By Jessica Corredor Villamil |
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.
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Migration and Decent Work: Challenges for the Global South
By Lucía Ramírez Bolívar, Jessica Corredor Villamil |
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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Civil Resistance Against 21st Century Athoritarianism
By Dejusticia |
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.
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Gender discrimination in Football. Building a Toolbox Toward Gender Equity in the Beautiful Game
By Dejusticia |
As the most popular sport worldwide, football (or soccer) may be the poster child for lingering gender disparities in sport.
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Data Feast: Enterprises and Personal Data in Latin America
By Vivian Newman Pont, Daniel Ospina Celis, Juan Carlos Upegui Mejía |
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?
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