Transitional Justice
We focus on the rights of victims to truth, justice, reparation and reconciliation in the context of armed conflict
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Victims' Rights & Constitutional Transitions
We focus on the rights of victims to truth, justice, reparation and reconciliation in the context of armed conflict in Colombia. Our advocacy in Colombia on these issues has an international perspective, which we hone by developing case studies on constitutional transitions in other parts of the world and participating in forums for expertise- sharing which bring together international organizations and networks.
We analyze and have an influential expert voice in the Processes of Justice and Peace, the Legal Framework for Peace, the Law of Victims and, currently, the Peace Process in Colombia. We study and contribute to the debate on the mechanisms for the approval of the peace agreement, prosecution, alternative penalties, and the truth commission—always with a distributive justice perspective and with the aim of achieving reparations that are truly transformative.
Activities & Direct Advocacy
The ABCs of the Social Protest and Human Rights Crisis in Colombia
By Daniela Jiménez González, Diana Esther Guzmán Rodríguez | May 11, 2021
Leaders Assassinated in Colombia: how many are left out of the counts?
By Dejusticia | Oct 18, 2018
Jury Finds Former Bolivian President and Defense Minister Responsible for Extrajudicial Killings of Indigenous People
By Dejusticia, Claret Vargas | Apr 5, 2018
Litigation
Rural reform decree to resolve historic debt with peasants
By César Rodríguez-Garavito (Retired in 2019), Rodrigo Uprimny Yepes, Nelson Camilo Sánchez León, Irina Alejandra Junieles Acosta, Gabriela Eslava, Ana Jimena Bautista, Maryluz Barragán | Aug 15, 2017
Prison is not the only sanction in transitional justice mechanisms
By César Rodríguez-Garavito (Retired in 2019) | Jul 26, 2017
The reform that gives stability and legal certainty to the Peace Agreement is constitutional
By César Rodríguez Garavito (Se retiró en 2019), Rodrigo Uprimny Yepes, Diana Isabel Güiza Gómez | Jul 26, 2017
Columns &Blogs
The immigration policy of the United States and its implications in Latin America
By Ximena Ortiz Ortiz, Lina Arroyave Velásquez | Feb 9, 2023
The binationality of the Wayuu people: the pending debt of Venezuela and Colombia
By Dayanna Gladys Palmar Uriana, Paulo Ilich Bacca | Feb 9, 2023
The binationality of the Wayuu people: the vision from their cosmology
By Dayanna Gladys Palmar Uriana, Paulo Ilich Bacca | Feb 9, 2023
Project Highlights
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Accountability of Corporate Actors During Transitional Justice Processes
As part of a broader project on the accountability of corporate actors during transitional processes, Dejusticia, along with partner organizations, intervened in the the 2nd Session of Open-Ended Intergovernmental Working Group on Transnational Corporations and Human Rights
Dejusticia, as an organization with ECOSOC consultative status, presented an oral intervention during the second panel of the session, calling attention to the special conditions of societies living in the context of conflict or undergoing a transition process. These societies have special conditions as they demand accountability from economic actors that have cooperated or assisted in the violation of human rights during armed conflict. Thus, Dejusticia requested that the Working Group consider specific provisions that take into account the needs of these societies to prosecute corporate complicity with conflict actors.
A transcript of our intervention can be found here.
Dejusticia analyzes and tracks the normative implementation of the peace agreement between the Colombian government and the FARC-EP. Our work includes short documents analyzing the constitutional and legal reforms that develop the agreement; participation in public hearings in Congress; interventions before the Constitutional Court; work in networks of civil society organizations, academics and university research groups; and participation in media debates.