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.
Read more 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.
Read more 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.
Read more 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.
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 Palliative Care: A Human Rights Approach to Health Care
By Isabel Pereira Arana |
This edition is an English translation of "Cuidados paliativos: El abordaje de la atención en salud desde un enfoque de derechos humanos", published by Dejusticia in August 2016; the data was not updated for the English translation.
Read more Human Rights Due Diligence to Identify, Prevent and Account for Human Rights Impacts by Business Enterprises
By Claret Vargas |
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.
Read more Rising to the Populist Challenge
By César Rodríguez-Garavito (Retired in 2019), Krizna Gomez |
This book collects and analyzes a repertoire of responses by human rights organizations to the crackdown against civil society in the populist context.
Read more Executive Summary Decision T-543 of 2017
By Dejusticia |
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.
Read more BUSINESS AND HUMAN RIGHTS: SUBMISSION TO THE INTER-AMERICAN COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR ON ECONOMIC, SOCIAL, CULTURAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL RIGHTS
By Claret Vargas |
This document focuses on implementation and access to effective remedies in the context of business activities. It also collects Inter-American standards that have an impact on the monitoring and on plans for the implementation of the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. Moreover, it collects examples of practices that must improve in order to protect human rights in the context of business enterprises.
Read more What should not be told: Tensions between the right to privacy and the access to information in cases of the voluntary termination of pregnancy
By Nina Chaparro González, Diana Esther Guzmán Rodríguez, Silvia Rojas Castro |
This document attempts to illustrate and analyze some of the tensions that exist between the right to privacy and other relevant constitutional rights and duties, such as the right to information and the duty to report in the context of the partial decriminalization of abortion in Colombia.
Read more Victims and press after the war
By Vivian Newman Pont, Maria Paula Ángel, María Ximena Dávila |
The drive to conduct this research was born out of the tension that developed on May of 2017 in the context of the journalistic coverage of the exhumations of those who died in the Bojayá massacre.
Read more 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.
Read more 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.
Read more Sobredosis carcelaria y política de drogas en América Latina
By 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.
Read more 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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