Indigenous 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 MoreOpen call for Global North fellowships 2025
This opportunity, for the second semester of 2025, allows for the exchange of tools and research-action strategies developed at Dejusticia, as well as the contributions of interns and fellows with their own experiences and those of their organizations.
Read MoreWe have fellowships for defenders from the Global South: Be part of the 2025 cohort!
This opportunity allows human rights defenders from countries in the Global South who are in emergency or high-risk situations to develop their projects and participate in an academic and cultural exchange in a safe space. Apply before January 31, 2025.
Read MoreJustice for victims of the armed conflict in Peru, again at risk
Law 32107 blocks investigations and sanctions for war crimes prior to 2002 in Peru. This affects more than 69,000 victims of the armed conflict, mainly indigenous and peasant communities, perpetuating impunity, exclusion and making social reconciliation difficult in a polarized country.
Read MorePandemic Inequality: Civil Society Narratives from the Global South
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 MoreIN FOCUS: Facial Recognition Tech Stories and Rights Harms from around the World
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 MoreProtecting Human Rights on the Ground
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 MorePeace during Covid-19 in Colombia
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 MoreThe Duque Government Before the United Nations: A Zero in Conduct
Above all of this disorder, something remains constant: the Duque government’s decided interest to weaken international supervision of human rights not only in the Interamerican system, but also in the United Nations.
Read MoreConfronting COVID-19 in Colombia
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 MoreDigital Transitions in Transitional Justice
The digitalization of transitional justice should not be seen as a long-term solution, as it can never replace the visceral dynamics of in-person human interaction and emotion, both essential in transitional justice processes.
Read MoreThe Human Rights-based Approach: The Pending Issue of the Migration Law
Although the Colombian government has implemented a series of measures to assist the Venezuelan population, this response has been sectorized and short-term in nature.
Read MoreThe Right to Have Rights: A Debate on Nationality in Colombia
Over ten human rights organizations appeared before the Constitutional Court asking to adopt the definition of domicile contained in the Civil Code, as provided in the Political Constitution and Law 43/1993
Read MorePacigerence: Legal Status of Peace Agreements Under International Law
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 MoreSummary of the CEDD regional report
This document is a summary of the report Cannabis in Latin America: The Green Wave and Challenges for Regulation
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 MoreFrom repression to migration: The case of Rufo Chacón
Rufo Chacón, in the company of his mother, is preparing to travel to Spain, where he will get the surgical intervention needed to improve his condition.
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 More4 Key Strategies to Reducing Sexual Violence Against Children
With the launch of the Alianza initiative, there is hope for a comprehensive change in sexual violence against children. But as always, effective implementation of such an ambitious program will undoubtedly have many challenges.
Read MoreLosing Ground: The Sixth Extinction and Development
The changes we have triggered on Earth shatter the distance and sense of remoteness that have governed our relationship with other species and the environment. This is a call to once again recognize our profound interdependence with our environment and protect it—if not for nature’s sake, then for our own.
Read MoreWaiting to Advertise: Children and Junk Food
The strategy, then, is simple: companies assure themselves a client for life, without the person even knowing they’re being sold something.
Read MoreSentences for drug traffickers from South America’s Pacific
The harshest sentences are served by transporters who, in most cases, are dispensable actors in the value chain of narco-trafficking, and who are committing the crimes because of the marginalized and impoverished conditions in which they live.
Read MoreThe Sierra, Displaced
I thought about their story, the people and the situations they must have faced. I honored that by feeling the strength of the land and that the stone had witnessed the same. –Tiokasin, Lakota leader
Read MoreThe Constitution of 1991 is open to peace and the profound changes it requires
What is the nature, scope and type of control that the Constitutional Court must exercise over the Legislative Acts issued to implement the Final Peace Agreement? Intervention by Rodrigo Uprimny before the High Court.
Read MoreDejusticia defended a decree that allows the Court to suspend terms of ordinary proceedings and focus on the implementation of peace
Dejusticia defended the decree that allows the Constitutional Court to suspend ordinary processes to concentrate on the norms that implement the Peace Agreement, but emphasized that this interruption can not be undefined.
Read MoreDejusticia intervened regarding the constitutionality of the Search Unit for Missing Persons
The decree meets the formal and material requirements to be declared enforceable. The decree was issued by the president, who is the competent authority and is also aligned with the criteria of connectedness and strict necessity.
Read MoreDecree that created the National Comprehensive Program for Crop Substitution is constitutional
In an intervention before the Constitutional Court, Dejusticia argued that this norm conforms to the Constitution. However, the organization warned that the deadline to determine the beneficiaries should be reconsidered because it could leave out a group of peasants living in poverty.
Read MoreDejusticia intervened before the Constitutional Court against censorship of a health-related commercial
We support the freedom of expression of the NGO Educar Consumidores. They had released a commercial that talked about the content and health effects of sugary drinks, but the Superintendency of Industry and Commerce ordered to suspend its transmission.
Read MoreDejusticia and Cimarrón intervened before the Constitutional Court to oppose racial discrimination in the workplace
The Constitutional Court is about to end the legal struggle that Jonh Jak Becerra undertook six years ago, after being a victim of racial discrimination at work. Dejusticia and Cimarrón called for the protection of the rights to equality, non-discrimination, decent work and due process.
Read MoreDejusticia intervened in defense of the non-discrimination of immigrants due to ideological reasons
Dejusticia intervened before the Constitutional Court in the process of revision of the immigration and foreigners law of 1920, which considers communist and anarchist people as a danger to the stability of the public powers.
Read MoreIntervention on the protection of information on content related to sugary drinks
Twenty-three citizens, members of the Food Health Alliance, filed an intervention before the Superintendency of Industry and Commerce in the ongoing proceedings against the Educar Consumidores commercial, which presented the sugar content of different drinks available in the market.
Read MoreInterventions in lawsuits against four aspects of the New Police Code
Dejusticia carried out citizen interventions regarding the constitutionality of Police Code articles that establish police measures for several categories of persons and activities.
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.
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