The right to protest under threat: the situation in Peru
Peru faces a fractured democracy: violent repression, criminalization of protests, and exclusion of indigenous communities expose historical wounds. The political and social crisis demands justice and urgent structural change.
Read MoreThe search for the disappeared: similar paths miles away
An empty plate speaks louder than words. In Colombia, Timor-Leste, and Indonesia, families refuse to forget their disappeared loved ones, confronting bureaucratic obstacles, institutional failures, and silence, demanding truth, justice, and the answers they are owed.
Read MoreStraddling borders: a journey of indigenous identity and sovereignty
The 21st century continues to portray Indigenous peoples as “a thing of the past,” as a people “dominated by the Europeans, civilized by them, or dead by their hatred,” making the impacts of Indigenous genocide clearly persist today.
Read MoreIndigenous peoples in cross-border mobility. An unknown phenomenon that deserves attention.
The lack of agreements between Colombia and neighboring countries for the granting of bi-nationality, as well as the practical impossibility of access to nationality by naturalization, due to the impossibility of meeting requirements for members of cross-border indigenous peoples
Read MoreNew Book Collating Nutrition Labeling Experiences in Latin America Launched
This book explores the role of nutrition labeling in combating obesity and non-communicable diseases in Latin America. Activists and researchers share lessons learned, emphasizing collaboration between civil society and academia to advance public health reforms.
Read MoreGender identity and migration in South Africa: a layered experience
South Africa carries an additional appeal for African LGBTQIA+ individuals seeking to flee victimisation and criminalisation in their home countries. Due to the provisions of its progressive post-apartheid constitution, South Africa has explicitly recognised persecution based on sexuality and gender identity as legitimate grounds for asylum since 1998.
Read MoreTrafficked migrant and refugee women in Latin America: State responses and challenges
Approximately 8 million people have left Venezuela and about 36% (2,811,570) of them are in Colombia, the main receiving country of the Venezuelan migrant population in the region.
Read MoreBorders, forced migration and differential approaches
The articles and blogs in this new edition of the Newsletter highlight just some of the impacts that borders can have on the lives of individuals and communities.
Read MoreFrom Indonesia to Peru: The Experiences of Our Fellows from the Global South
Seven researchers from six countries came to our organization to strengthen their work on transitional justice, gender, peasant rights, extractivism, technology, among others. This exchange strengthens the impact of their organizations and promotes the defense of human rights in their countries of origin.
Read MoreLocal stories of justice and reparation in the face of extractivism in Latin America
The question persists on how to address this tension from the perspective of the territories, considering the way indigenous communities construct justice, prioritizing their views over those of companies and states.
Read MoreThe Sarayaku and the Inter-American System on Human Rights: Justice for the “Medio Dia” People and their Living Jungle
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 MoreParticipation in Transitional Justice Measures: A Comparative Study
The study analyzes participatory scenarios involving not only victims but also civil society in a broader sense, as the latter has also been very important for the
promotion, adoption, and implementation of transitional justice measures.
Accountability of Google and other data-driven business models: data protection in the digital age
In this document we analyze the privacy policies of 30 companies with data-driven business models that collect data in Colombia and identify practices that have not been sufficiently contemplated by the personal data protection regime currently applicable in our country.
Read MoreFraught with Pain: Access to Palliative Care and Treatment for Heroin Use Disorder in Colombia
This books seeks to facilitate linkages between discussions on the right to health and discussions on drug policy reform. The populations we talk about here are the noes most in need of a change whereby drug culture measures cease to stand in the way of a life free from pain.
Read MorePrisons: What Force Can’t Do
“Heavy-handed” policies on crime in many countries in the Americas have not only brought prisons to crises around the continent, but have also failed to reduce crime and recidivism. A more humane penitentiary system, not one of terror, seems to be the solution that our continent needs.
Read MoreTwo fights in one: feminism and environmentalism
Only in as much as we coordinate the efforts will we be able to erradicate gender inequality and encounter a solution to the ecological crisis that we are experiencing.
Read MoreThe “Lock Him Up” Paradox
What if we treated criminal prosecution and sentencing as a question of how to rebuild society?
Read MoreThe Vienna Consensus is broken, and we’re not going to fix it
Continuing to strengthen the idea that people who grow, traffic, and use drugs are citizens and human beings like everyone else is the first substantial step in restoring rights to populations who have suffered the harm of prohibition.
Read MoreBeyond the Binary: Securing Peace and Promoting Justice after Conflict
The main objective of Beyond the Binary is to place on record the need to formulate answers to the question of the role that criminal action and punishment should play in negotiated political transitions from war to peace.
Read MoreRuben
Birds face a variety of risks simply for coexisting with us, because we are a harmful species that grows egotistically and disproportionately.
Read MoreGender Ideology: Demagogy or Strategy to Roll Back Rights?
The weakening of rights has come in blows that are difficult to perceive, but which have a substantial impact in the lives of women and LGBT people.
Read MoreThe Cocalera Marches: An Expression of the Right to Demand Rights
The cocalero movements have helped to create the right to have rights, to be citizens and to receive attention by the State beyond a war against drugs.
Read MoreFiscal Policy in the Service of Human Rights
How, exactly, is fiscal policy related to human rights?
Read More“Without us, the world would not turn”
Understanding the reasons why certain women from certain regions end up doing certain work opens the door for critically approaching the fact that the majority of domestic workers are migrants in precarious situations.
Read MoreA Hop, Skip, and a Jungle Away: From the Global South to Sarayaku
Nearly all of the indigenous leaders who joined us for the workshop had some troubles in transit, which is clearly not an accident.
Read MoreTransnational Advocacy Networks
Activists, particularly those based in the global South, have accumulated a wealth of experience in dealing with a range of transnational networks operating in diverse issue areas. New theoretical understandings have reflected this accumulating experience.
Read MoreEntre coacción y colaboración: Verdad judicial, actores económicos y conflicto armado en Colombia
While it is clear that many of the economic actors lack responsibility in the conflict and others have been victims of it, some research has shown that some did have a decisive role in the origin, development and perpetuation of the cycles of armed conflict in the country.
Read MoreWhat should not be told: Tensions between the right to privacy and the access to information in cases of the voluntary termination of pregnancy
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 MoreJustice through Transitions: Conflict, Peacemaking and Human Rights in the Global South
What does justice mean in times of transition? What kinds of possibilities and dissapointments emerge from processes of seeking justice through transition? How might we understand these processes through narrative?
Read MorePalliative Care: A Human Rights Approach to Health Care
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 MoreDejusticia’s intervention on behalf of the right to health and food of the Vaupés indigenous people
Dejusticia intervened before the Constitutional Court in support of a tutela filed on behalf of indigenous peoples in Vaupés for violations of their right to health.
Read MoreIntervention by Dejusticia and other organizations in favor of the right to food and water of the Wayúu children
Dejusticia intervened before the Constitutional Court in support of a tutela on behalf of Wayúu children in La Guajira, for violations of their rights to food and water.
Read MoreRequest Under Colombian Freedom of Information Laws
Our request highlights both what has been done and what remains to be done for the creation and implementation of the Legal Commission for Monitoring Intelligence and Counterintelligence Activities.
Read MoreLawsuit to protect the right of access to public intelligence information
Dejusticia filed a lawsuit challenging Decree 857 of 2014, which regulates the Colombian Law of Intelligence and Counterintelligence, for violating some of the necessary requirements that must be fulfilled before the right of access to public information held by intelligence agencies can be restricted.
Read MoreDejusticia intervened in defense of the amnesty law
Dejusticia intervened before the Constitutional Court in the process of constitutional revision of the law that grants amnesties, pardons and special penal treatments (Law 1820 of 2016).
Read MoreIntervention before the Constitutional Court in the revision of Decree-Law 249 of 2017, which regulates a specific hiring process for manual eradication for the implementation of the peace process
Dejusticia asked the Constitutional Court to declare invalid Decree-Law 249 of 2017 (DL 249/2017), for two reasons: in issuing this rule, the President of the Republic exceeded the special powers for peace because it did not demonstrate the strict necessity to regulate this subject by this extraordinary way; and the contracting procedure that regulates DL 249/2017 violates the constitutional principles governing public procurement.
Read MoreIntervention before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in follow-up to the situation of the Sarayaku people of Ecuador
Dejusticia, EarthRights International and the Foundation for Due Process presented an intervention before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in the follow-up that this court is giving to the situation of the Sarayaku people of Ecuador.
Read MoreIntervention in an advisory opinion before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in relation to gender identity and economic rights of same-sex couples
On December 6, 2016, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights invited Dejusticia to present written comments, within the framework of an Advisory Opinion requested by the State of Costa Rica in May 2016.
Read MoreIntervention in the lawsuit against the 122 article of the criminal code related to abortion
The Constitutional Court’s Sentence C-355 of 2006 studied the constitutionality of article 122 of the criminal code, which typifies abortion and decriminalizes it in three circumstances.
Read MoreDejusticia Files Suit to Protect the Right to Privacy Under the New Police Code in Colombia
Dejusticia filed a lawsuit before the Constitutional Court, arguing that several articles of Colombian Law 1801 of 2016 (Police Code) violate the right to privacy.
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