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Going Beyond Nature

What does granting rights to nature really mean? How can the rights of nature be materialized? Which rights? Where does this recognition leave the communities that have traditionally inhabited and helped to conserve certain areas?

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Juan Pedro Lares: The freed prisoner that never was

Juan Pedro Lares, a 24-year old Colombian-Venezuelan young man, who was abducted by a hundred civilian-dressed members of the Venezuelan Intelligence, the National Guard, the police, and armed civilian groups from his family’s home in July of last year was finally set free . But a feeling of injustice still lingers.

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A cure to end homicides

Examples from initiatives across Mexico, Colombia and South Africa shed some light on policies that could help reduce the homicide rate across the Global South. Inclusive and holistic policies that include a wide range of societal actors may offer remedies to tackle this crisis.

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Increasing Accountability

All Colombian society, especially economic actors who had no connection to the conflict, in an effort to go beyond political differences and as a gesture of solidarity towards the victims, should commit themselves to claim and promote victims’ rights without restrictions.

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Intervention Litigating Unconstitutionality of the Expression “Free of Blame” of the Evidenciary Requirements of Good Faith Which Is Necessary to Access Economic Compensation

We intervened before the Constitutional Court litigating the unconstitutionality of the formulated expression “free of blame” of the evidenciary standards of good faith, contained in the Law 1448 of 2011 (Victims and Land Restitution Law) that is a requirement to access economic compensation.

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What should the mining licensees prove, which are opponents of land restitution processes of ethnic communities, to show good faith free of guilt?

We presented an amicus curiae in the land restitution process in support of the Cocomopoca afro-descendant community.

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Citizen Intervention in Favor of Changed Introduced by the Balance of Powers Reform regarding Presidential Re-election

The Balance of Powers Reform excluded in regards to presidential re-election the other mechanisms of constitutional reform that are included in the Constitution: legislative act and constitutional referendum of a governmental initiative. Dejusticia argues that this is not unconstitutional. 

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Citizen Intervention Litigating the Unconstitutionality against Legislative Act, Which Reforms Military Tribunals

Our intervention highlighted that although International Humanitarian Law specifically regulates contexts of war, this does not mean that, from the standard of specialty, the reform introduced by the Legislative Act 02 of 2015 exclude International Human Rights Law standards.

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Intervention before the Constitutional Court in Writ of Constitutional Protection that Seeks to Protect a Wetland in Santander from Large-Scale Ranching

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.

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Is the new judicial governance model adopted by the Legislative Act 02 of 2015 or “Balance of Powers Reform” constitutional? Rodrigo Uprimny intervenes in public hearing before the Constitutional Court

On September 9th, 2015 Rodrigo Uprimny participated in a public hearing called by the Constitutional Court during the process of assessing the constitutionality of the Legislative Act 02 of 2015 or the “balance of powers reform.” In his intervention, Rodrigo Uprimny argues that the balance of power reform did not replace the fundamental pillar of judicial independence by modifying the 1991 Constitution’s model of judicial governance.

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Some Regulations of the New Nacional Development Plan Violate the Protection of Paramos, Citizen Participation, and Land Restitution

We intervened in new litigation arguing the inconstitutionality of some of the articles of the new National Development Plan 2014-2018.

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