Posts Tagged ‘Acceso a la información’
Invima Suspends Hit Commercial and Ad: Juices do not have as much fruit as they make you believe
The authorities found that the slogan “It’s natural that you like Hit” and other messages from Postobón contained misleading claims about the fruit content in these drinks. The measure was made after Dejusticia and Red Papaz denounced the case.
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 More“Terms and Conditions May Apply”… depending on where you are
In practice, the Latin American lack of adequate protection manifests itself in the possibility of banks using credit algorithms to decide whether to grant a loan or not, without any intervention by someone with the authority and competence to change the decision.
Read MoreAttention to GAFA (II)
It was thought that what was good for the GAFA was good for the world. It was believed that for the benefits of technology to reach everyone, it would be best to let companies self-regulate.
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 MoreAttention to GAFA
It’s time to look at GAFA through a magnifying glass, as Google, Amazon, Facebook and Apple are known, the dominant companies of the digital era.
Read MoreHacked
Governments have taken advantage of a legal and informative vacuum to turn their critics’ cell phones into surveillance devices. It is essential to update the legislation and require government entities to disclose how they use electronic surveillance systems.
Read MoreThe luck of prohibition: Bloomsday
The history of art is plagued with censorship. Ulysses, by the Irish author James Joyce, was banned for more than ten years and went to trial three times for being considered obscene.
Read More“Ask the President …”
Accountability and transparency, a requirement to avoid corruption, is an activity of daily openness that every official must fulfill. Even when it comes to giving answers that are not worthy of a public entity, let alone the one responsible for ensuring transparency, such as the Office of Procurator-General.
Read MoreAccess to intelligence and counterintelligence archives in the framework of the post-agreement
In this text, we offer options so that transitional justice mechanisms and society at large can have access to intelligence and counterintelligence archives, which relate to the armed conflict in Colombia.
Read MoreAlternative report to the United Nations Committee Against Forced Displacement
Dejusticia and five allied organizations presented an alternative report to the United Nations Committee Against Forced Displacement before its 11th Session, which took place on October 3-14, 2016.
Read MoreColombia’s Environmental Near-sightedness and Clumsiness in ECLAC
In contrast to the majority of countries that want a treaty that guarantees the right to the free access to information in Latin America, Colombia has done everything in its power to make the instrument simply a declaraton of principles without teeth.
Read MoreRadio Debates
In Colombia the radio has greatly developed, encouraged perhaps by difficult geography and poor communication among regions. Lacking highways, Colombians have communicated through radiowaves.
Read MoreCan a Person Ask Google, Or Any Search Engine, to Erase and Take Down Their Personal Information?
We intervened before the Constitutional Court in a writ of constitutional protection case in which the plaintiff asks that El Tiempo and Google.com to erase and take down from their digital media and web searches all information related to a past criminal case she was implicated in that has expired.
Read MoreTalking about Privacy at the UN
It would do us well to have an arena dedicated to established principles, standards and best practices to protect privacy. A warm welcome for the new Rapporteur.
Read MoreA Basket Full of Strangers
Can the average Colombian consumer understand the information provided on food products?
Read MoreAmicus Curiae Presented to the Supreme Court of the Nation Regarding International Standards on the Definition of Grave Human Rights Violations Applicable in the United States of Mexico
Taking into account the ongoing discussion in Mexico regarding the application of classified information in investigations in preliminary inquiry phases and declassifying said information when dealing with grave violations of human rights, stipulated in the Law of Federal Transparency and Access to Public Government Information of 2002, Dejusticia presented an amicus curiae in the case taken by the Supreme Court of Mexico regarding the writ of constitutional protection 661/2014 presented by the Foundation for Justice and Democratic Rule of Law, where we analyze the international standards applicable to the Mexican state in relation with the definition of the category of grave human rights violations.
Read MoreCitizen Intervention in the Revision of the BIll on Petition Rights Statutory Law
Dejusticia and Flip ask the Court to examine the contradictions and disharmony between the Statutory Law of Transparency and Access and the public information already in effect as well as the bill on the right to petition that finds itself under constitutional review.
Read MoreLeaks, Impeachments and Military Justice
The conversations between high ranking military officials revealed by Semana magazine not only shows serious cases of corruption, it also refutes one of the main arguments the government used to expand the jurisdiction of military justice in Colombia.
Read MoreAnd Who Gave the Order?
Some abuses may be the work of derailed agents. But other abuses can only be explained if these agents were acting on orders of someone more powerful.
Read MorePersonalizad Internet
There’s nothing wrong with the internet knowing (or thinking it knows) our preferences and interests.
Read MoreOnline education and the Classroom Dictatorship
Why do professors insist on teaching the same course over and over? When did teaching became “lecturing”?
Read MoreIntervention: Legislative Proposal on transparency and access to public information
The “More Information, More Rights Alliance,” in which Dejusticia participates, intervened before the Constitutional Court regarding proposed legislation on transparency and access to public information.
Read MoreIntervention in the challenge the proposed statute of intelligence and counterintelligence
Dejusticia and the Foundation for Press Freedom -FLIP- argues for the application of standards that should be applied to protect rights frequently violated by intelligence activities and, at the same time, ensure their effectiveness.
Read MoreAmicus brief before the Inter-American Court regarding access to information in Venezuela
Dejusticia presented an amicus brief in the case of Ríos y otros vs. Venezuela in the Inter-American Court of Human Rights regarding violations of article 13 and 1.1 of the American Convention.
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