Posts Tagged ‘Colombia’
Every dose counts (and costs): Access to antiretrovirals and compulsory licensing
In Colombia, HIV is a visible and urgent challenge that affects thousands of people and puts many more at risk. Despite World Health Organization (WHO) recommendations to use Dolutegravir as first-line treatment due to its high effectiveness and minimal side effects, the high cost of the drug prevented its access to a large part of the population.
Read MoreWhat happens at CND 67, the international forum where the future of drug policy is decided
The historic presence of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Colombia’s leading role and frustration at the slow progress towards a new global monitoring system. Analysis of the first day of the CND in Vienna.
Read More3 challenges to the human rights agenda in 2024: a Global South perspective
We present El Sur Global, an international newsletter to discuss international situations and trends from a human rights perspective.
Read MoreIs it impossible to pay reparations? The case of the reparations policy for survivors of sexual violence and victims of the armed conflict in Colombia
This paper provides elements for reflection and analysis on the political economy of reparations by analyzing the Colombian case since 2011, when the policy for victims of the armed conflict was created through Law 1448.
Read MoreApply to our 2023 call for fellowships
The fellowship program is an opportunity for mutual exchange, both so that they can learn about the tools and action-research strategies that we develop in Dejusticia, and so that Dejusticia can learn from their experience and that of their organizations.
Read MoreAgainst the Current: Human Rights and Climate Justice in the Global South
Against the Current is the result of the collective effort of participants from Dejusticia’s seventh annual Global Action-Research Workshop for Young Human Rights Advocates.
Read MoreThe binationality of the Wayuu people: the pending debt of Venezuela and Colombia
The Wayuu arrive in Colombia to seek refuge but crashes with a wall that prevents them from accessing social services and fundamental rights: the Colombian State has not recognized the binationality of the Wayuu people in practice.
Read MoreThe binationality of the Wayuu people: the vision from their cosmology
The Wayuu people have demanded the recognition of their binationality, appealing to the legal and political link that unites them with Colombia and Venezuela, which should translate into a full guarantee of rights and citizenship in both countries.
Read MoreMigration and Decent Work: Challenges for the Global South
This book seeks to strenghten the Human Rights movement through collaboration and the sharing of experiences. The diversity of voices featured here offers a look at migration based on and geared toward the Global South.
Read MoreColombian Democracy in the Streets
Confronted with the violence in the protests, the government and political leaders, as well as social leaders, must first promote the de-escalation, putting human rights at the center of the crisis management.
Read MoreProtests in Colombia: 650 civil society organizations call for urgent action from IACHR
Given the fragile institutional situation and the seriousness of human rights violations in Colombia, a group of 650 organizations, including Dejusticia, made a joint call to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) asking to energetically condemn the acts of violence and repression of social protest in Colombia and to visit the country to verify…
Read MoreWe condemn violence and call for respect for the right to protest in Colombia
For the allegations of human rights violations during the current national strike, we call for compliance with the orders issued by the Supreme Court of Justice for these contexts.
Read MoreSupreme Court of Justice protects the right to protest against police violence
The Supreme Court of Justice of Colombia protected the right of all people to demonstrate and the duty of the authorities to “ward off, prevent and punish the systematic, violent and arbitrary intervention of the public force in demonstrations and protests.”
Read MoreInternational Humanitarian Law and Victims of Child Recruitment as Targets of an Attack
An interpretation of the spirit of IHL, manifested in the principles of military necessity and humanity, as well as the IHRL standards applicable to children, should always prohibit the State from causing excessive death or injury. There is nothing more excessive than killing recruited children —vulnerable, discriminated against, and abandoned by the State— in order to gain a military advantage that could have been achieved through other means.
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 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 MoreDigital conversation cycle “South-South Dialogues: Challenges and Opportunities in Human Rights”
Experts from academia and international organizations will discuss common issues and propose public policy recommendations and advocacy actions for civil society
Read MoreSuperior Court of Bogotá reaffirms that the right to defend human rights of social justice leaders must be protected
This important ruling confirms the urgent need to guarantee this right for social justice leaders and human rights defenders in their current situation of risk
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 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 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 MoreVacillation towards migrants
The situation of Venezuelan migrants is too serious and urgent to equivocate on good faith and sway with the changing political circumstances of each government.
Read MorePeace, everyone’s business! Corporate accountability in transitional justice: lessons for Colombia
The report includes a comparative study of eight countries (Argentina, Brazil, South Africa, Guatemala, East Timor, Sierra Leone and Liberia) that used transitional justice to judge crimes by corporate actors during armed conflicts.
Read MoreExercising the Right to Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy in the Context of Armed Conflict
One of the central aims of this text is to overcome, in a first attempt, the lack of data regarding abortions and the armed conflict, and the obstacles women face when trying to access that procedure in those contexts.
Read MoreMulti-Door Courthouses: A Good Idea Badly Managed
This research project aims to do a diagnostic about the National Program on Multi-Door Courthoses and make some public policy recommendations that could magnify their virtues and improve access to justice.
Read MoreThe Constitutional Court Decides in Constitutional Writ of Protection Case about Changing Gender on Official Identification Documents for Trans People– Intervention by Dejusticia
The Constitutional Court in the T-063 Decision of 2005 protected the fundamental rights to human dignity, free development of personality, sexual and gender identity, and the legal personhood of trans women, who they previously asked to use a judicial process and present a medical certificate in order to change one’s sex on official identification documents.
Read MoreWe Ask the Government to Immediately Suspend Glifosate Fumigations
We ask the Justice Ministry, as the President of the National Narcotics Council, the Technical Secretary of that organization, and the Anti-Narcotics Director of the National Police, to immediately suspend all glifosate spraying operations in the Colombian territory, in application of the precautionary principle.
Read MoreAmicus Curae in Popular Action Case against the Omission of the Ministry of Mines, the National Mining Agency, and Other Entities Responsible for Extending the “Mining Moratorium”
We present an amicus curae in the case in reference with the aim of asking the Office to protect the collective right to the environment, and qualify the decision to allow a window for mining title requests until the conditions for which the moratorium was initially instituted are overcome and to further consider this in future extensions of said moratorium.
Read MoreTraining on Issues on Sexual Violence in the Armed Conflict: A Methodological Proposal for Public Servants
We contribute some pedagogical materials to develop a training program on this topic. We hope its implementation will contribute to an improvement in the attention given to survivors, and the investigation and judicialization of sexual violence committed in the armed conflict with the goal of reducing impunity for these crimes and increasing survivors’ access to justice.
Read MoreGovernance and Administration of the Judiciary
Analysis of the reform proposals in the balance of powers project.
Read MoreDo Not Interrupt the Law: The National Health Superintendency’s Purview on the Right to Choose
This document seeks to contribute new arguments to advance the debate about the implementation of guarantees to the right to choose in Colombia, overcoming the two obstacles outlined in the report.
Read MoreCommunications Surveillance in Colombia: The Chasm between Technological Capacity and the Legal Framework
The goal of this book is to examine the Colombian legal and jurisprudential framework regarding communications surveillance in light of today’s technologies.
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