Reimagining Human Rights
By César Rodríguez-Garavito (Retired in 2019) |
Our Director, César Rodríguez, published the article "Reimagining Human Rights" in the Journal of International Law and International Affairs.
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Social Rights Judgments and the Politics of Compliance: Making it Stick (Cambridge University Press)
By César Rodríguez Garavito (Se retiró en 2019) |
The book “Social Rights Judgments and the Politics of Compliance”, edited by César Rodríguez Garavito, director of Dejusticia, Malcolm Langford (Univ. Oslo) and Julieta Rossi (Univ. Lanús) was just published.
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Access to intelligence and counterintelligence archives in the framework of the post-agreement
By Ana María Ramírez, Maria Paula Ángel, Mauricio Albarracín, Rodrigo Uprimny Yepes, Vivian Newman Pont |
In this text, we offer options so that transitional justice mechanisms and society at large can have access to intelligence and counterintelligence archives, which relate to the armed conflict in Colombia.
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Environmental peace: challenges and proposals for the post-accord
By César Rodríguez-Garavito (Retired in 2019), Diana Rodríguez Franco, Helena Durán |
Through the Ideas for Peacebuilding collection, Dejusticia seeks to contribute to this task through thematic documents that offer diagnoses and proposals on some of the central institutional challenges of this new stage. In this book, we analyze the impact of the conflict on the environment and the challenges that arise in the peacebuilding stage.
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Negotiating from the margins: The political participation of women in the peace processes of Colombia (1982-2016)
By Nina Chaparro González, Margarita Martínez Osorio |
This book offers analyses and recommendations regarding the participation of women in peace processes so that peace agreements can become long-term social pacts that are both inclusive and committed to justice and equality.
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Peace territories: the construction of the local state in Colombia
By Javier Eduardo Revelo Rebolledo, José Rafael Espinosa Restrepo, Mauricio García Villegas, Natalia Duarte, Nicolás Torres Echeverry |
This book offers diagnoses and proposals surrounding one key challenge of peace building: carrying out out a large national state-building project on the periphery of the country.
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Persons Deprived of Liberty for Drug Offenses
By Dejusticia |
The research of the Collective on Persons Detained, Processed and Imprisoned presents statistical information about detention and imprisonment for drug offenses in Latin America and advocates for an overhaul of drug laws and their implementation in Latin America. — La evidencia existente muestra que, a nivel mundial, la política de drogas ha implicado diversos costos…
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Democracy, Justice & Society: Ten Years of Research at Dejusticia
By María Adelaida Ceballos Bedoya, Mauricio García Villegas |
This book collects the essential from the texts on justice elaborated during the last decade in the Center for the Study of Law, Justice and Society - Dejusticia.
Extractivism versus human rights: chronicles of the mined fields in the Global South
By César Rodríguez-Garavito (Retired in 2019) |
Un nuevo acercamiento a los derechos humanos: escritura reflexiva por autores activistas de organizaciones defensoras que considera el potencial, los logros y desafíos de su práctica.
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Arguments and pathways for the ratification of the American Convention on Protecting the Human Rights of Older Persons
By Isabel Pereira Arana |
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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Effective Criminal Defense in Latin America
By Dejusticia |
This book analyzes the national and regional standards related to effective criminal defense. It is the result of a joint research project conducted with different organizations including Dejusticia.
Legal Framework for the Sugary Drinks Tax in Colombia
By César Rodríguez-Garavito (Retired in 2019), Diana Guarnizo, Valentina Rozo |
The document provides a summary on the legal framework for the sugary drinks tax in Colombia
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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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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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.
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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…
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