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.
Read more The good faith in land restitution
By Aura Bolívar Jaime, , Angie Paola Botero Giraldo |
A rigid application of the principle of good faith within the process of land restitution can disregard or transgress fundamental rights. The document presents the different legal problems that have arisen.
Read more Academia and citizenship: university professors meeting and violating norms
By Mauricio García Villegas, Nicolás Torres Echeverry |
What do higher education teachers understand about the concept of non-compliance? What are their main faults? This research, with 605 teachers from Antioquia, begins from these questions.
Read more Without rules or control: regulation of food and drinks advertising aimed at minors
By Diana Guarnizo |
This text addresses questions regarding the role of unhealthy food and drink consumption, especially in children, and what the State does about it. The document is based on an analysis of the existing norms in Colombia and is skeptical about the self-regulation mechanisms proposed by the industry.
Read more Justice Mosaics: How Context Shapes Transitional Justice in Fractured Societies
By Rodrigo Uprimny Yepes, Nelson Camilo Sánchez León |
Two of our researchers contribute a chapter to a book by the International Center for Transitional Justice.
Read more Peace, everyone’s business! Corporate accountability in transitional justice: lessons for Colombia
By Nelson Camilo Sánchez León, |
The report includes a comparative study of eight countries (Argentina, Brazil, South Africa, Guatemala, East Timor, Sierra Leone and Liberia) that used transitional justice to judge crimes by corporate actors during armed conflicts.
Read more Transitional justice and action without harm: a reflection on the land restitution process
By Dejusticia |
This document compiles the reflections made in recent years by the Transitional Justice team of Dejusticia and the Action without Harm team of the National University of Colombia.
Read more 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.
Read more 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.
Read more 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.
Read more 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.
Read more 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.
Read more 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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