The Constitutional Court has the last word to save the Ciénaga Grande of Santa Marta
By César Rodríguez-Garavito (Retired in 2019), Vivian Newman Pont, Mauricio Albarracín, Diana Rodríguez Franco, Helena Durán, Gabriela Eslava |
Dejusticia intervention regarding the invalidity requests of sentence T-445 of 2016 on the popular consultation to decide on mining Pijao
By César Rodríguez-Garavito (Retired in 2019), Diana Rodríguez Franco, Gabriela Eslava, Helena Durán, Maryluz Barragán, Mauricio Albarracín |
Intervention on the granting of mining licenses in the Mining Code
By César Rodríguez-Garavito (Retired in 2019), Diana Rodríguez Franco, Helena Durán, Mauricio Albarracín |
Dejusticia intervened litigating the unconstitutionality of several articles in the Mining Code (Law 685 of 2001). The intervention focused on showing how the process to grant mining licenses violated several constitutional principles and rights.
Dejusticia intervenes in defense of the rights of communities from the Atrato river
By César Rodríguez-Garavito (Retired in 2019), Diana Rodríguez Franco, Helena Durán, Mauricio Albarracín, Nicolás Torres Echeverry |
Dejusticia filed its intervention with the Constitutional Court of Colombia, in a protection case filed by the Center for the Study of Social Justice, "Tierra Digna." The case relates to the environmental pollution of this river basin, which has resulted from mechanized mining activities and from the unauthorized exploitation of forest resources.
Coadyudancia in Favor of Popular Consultation in Pijao
By César Rodríguez-Garavito (Retired in 2019), Diana Rodríguez Franco, Helena Durán, Mauricio Albarracín |
Coadyuvancia to the tutela process defending the right of citizen participation in the popular consultation about mining proposed by the mayor of Pijao.
Dejusticia Intervenes in Defense of the Santurbán Páramo
By César Rodríguez-Garavito (Retired in 2019), Diana Rodríguez Franco, Helena Durán, Mauricio Albarracín |
Dejusticia intervened in an action for protection filed by the Committee for the Defense of Water and the Santurbán Páramo, against the Ministry of Environment, Housing and Territorial Development, which is currently being reviewed by the Constitutional Court.
What should the mining licensees prove, which are opponents of land restitution processes of ethnic communities, to show good faith free of guilt?
By Angie Paola Botero Giraldo, Aura Bolívar Jaime, Carlos Andrés Baquero Díaz, César Rodríguez-Garavito (Retired in 2019), Diana Isabel Güiza Gómez, Paola Molano Ayala, Sara Milena Ferrer Valencia |
We presented an amicus curiae in the land restitution process in support of the Cocomopoca afro-descendant community.
Intervention before the Constitutional Court in Writ of Constitutional Protection that Seeks to Protect a Wetland in Santander from Large-Scale Ranching
By César Rodríguez-Garavito (Retired in 2019), Diana Rodríguez Franco, Helena Durán, Mauricio Albarracín |
We intervened in the revision process of a writ of constitutional protection requested by a citizen of Satander that seeks to protect a wetland that has been affected by large-scale ranching of an agricultural actor in the area.
Some Regulations of the New Nacional Development Plan Violate the Protection of Paramos, Citizen Participation, and Land Restitution
By Angie Paola Botero Giraldo, Aura Bolívar Jaime, Beatriz Botero Arcila, César Rodríguez-Garavito (Retired in 2019), Diana Isabel Güiza Gómez, Diana Rodríguez Franco, Helena Durán, , Mauricio Albarracín, Rodrigo Uprimny Yepes |
We intervened in new litigation arguing the inconstitutionality of some of the articles of the new National Development Plan 2014-2018.