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.
Read more 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.
Read more 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.
Read more Territorial Justice System for Peace
By Carolina Villadiego Burbano |
This book is part of the collection Documents for Peacebuilding in which Dejusticia presents ideas to face the complex challenge of building a stable and lasting peace in the post-agreement period. This specific document addresses the need to strengthen the national judicial system in an articulated manner and with an emphasis on rural areas and on overcoming the armed justice that operates in many places.
Read more Fighting the tide: Human Rights and Environmental Justice in the Global South
By César Rodríguez-Garavito (Retired in 2019) |
This text forms part of a long-term project undertaken by Dejusticia as part of its international work. The project revolves around the Global Action-Research Workshop for Young Human Rights Advocates that Dejusticia organizes each year to foster connections among and train a new generation of action researchers.
Read more Assessment of Existing National Action Plans (NAPs) on Business and Human Rights (2017)
By Claret Vargas |
The International Corporate Accountability Roundtable (ICAR), the European Coalition for Corporate Justice (ECCJ), and the Center for the Study of Law, Justice, and Society (Dejusticia) are pleased to release an updated report on Assessments of Existing National Action Plans (NAPs) on Business and Human Rights (August 2017).
Read more On corruption in Colombia: conceptual framework, diagnosis and policy proposals
By Vivian Newman Pont, Maria Paula Ángel |
According to the Corruption Perceptions Index by Transparency International for 2016, Colombia obtained a rating of 37/100. How to characterize the phenomenon of corruption in Colombia and what academic and public policy strategies can be adopted to counteract it?
Read more Strategies for a rural transitional reform
By Nelson Camilo Sánchez León |
The best way to face the challenges posed by the implementation of the Peace Accord in rural policies and to pay off the historic debt to Colombian peasants is to deepen the restitution efforts and to integrate them to a broader agrarian policy.
Read more Drug crimes and prison overdose in Colombia
By Rodrigo Uprimny Yepes, Sergio Chaparro Hernández, Luis Felipe Cruz |
This research, carried out by Dejusticia and the Research Consortium on Drugs and the Law, assesses the impact of drug policy on the prison system and recommends, among other measures, to decriminalize the possession of a personal dose.
Read more Debates on the action of restitution
By Aura Bolívar Jaime, , Nelson Camilo Sánchez León, Rodrigo Uprimny Yepes |
This document provides an analysis and reflection on the legal challenges of the implementation of land restitution action, the peculiarities of its mechanisms and procedures, and its more complex challenges.
Read more The right to freedom of expression: advanced course for judges and legal practitioners in the Americas
By Catalina Botero Marino, Sofía Jaramillo Otoya |
This guide covers the main current legal rules under the inter-American order on freedom of expression.
Read more Land restitution and territories: justifications, dilemmas and strategies
By Sergio Chaparro Hernández, Javier Eduardo Revelo Rebolledo, Nelson Camilo Sánchez León |
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.
Read more 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.
Read more 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.
Read more 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.
Read more 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?
Read more Pandemic Inequality: Civil Society Narratives from the Global South
By Dejusticia |
The contributors to this book, writing from different perspectives, invite us to consider what we can learn from the interplay between the pandemic and inequality in order to spur a creative reorientation of collective mobilization and advocacy toward the future.
Read more IN FOCUS: Facial Recognition Tech Stories and Rights Harms from around the World
By Daniel Ospina Celis |
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…
Read more Protecting Human Rights on the Ground
By Ligia Bolívar, Lucía Ramírez Bolívar |
During the investigation, the presence of OHCHR completed its first six months in Venezuela, so a consultation with human rights defenders in the country was included to assess this experience. Being the first comparative research in this field, its findings are equally of interest to other audiences beyond Venezuela.
Read more Peace during Covid-19 in Colombia
By Nelson Camilo Sánchez León, Aaron Alfredo Acosta |
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.
Read more Confronting COVID-19 in Colombia
By Aaron Alfredo Acosta, Nelson Camilo Sánchez León, Mohammad Zia |
This is the first of three policy briefings, which are part of a COVID19 in Colombia series. The policy briefing series seeks to provide relevant and timely information to academics who are conducting research, or plan on doing so in Colombia, related to the human rights impacts in Colombia and the implementation of the peace…
Read more Pacigerence: Legal Status of Peace Agreements Under International Law
By Rodrigo Uprimny Yepes, Diana Isabel Güiza Gómez |
This article explores the exist- ing legal instruments which may confer binding force to such agreements at the international level —an international treaty between a State and an insurgent group, an international treaty signed by a State and third-party States, a special agreement under international humanitarian law, a UN Se- curity Council resolution, and a unilateral declaration of a State—.
Read more Summary of the CEDD regional report
By Dejusticia |
This document is a summary of the report Cannabis in Latin America: The Green Wave and Challenges for Regulation
Read more The Sarayaku and the Inter-American System on Human Rights: Justice for the “Medio Dia” People and their Living Jungle
By Mario Melo Cevallos |
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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