Posts Tagged ‘Corte Suprema de Justicia’
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?
Read MoreClimate change lawsuit: from theory to action
Dejusticia and the Ministry of Environment met with government agencies, academia, and civil society to build together a path forward to comply with the Court’s orders to stop deforestation in the Amazon.
Read More25 Voices Against Deforestation
From 17 cities around Colombia, these boys, girls, and young adults between the ages of 7 and 26 were the impetus for the First Lawsuit on Climate Change and the Future Generations of Latin America.
Read MoreHelp us build the Intergenerational Pact for the Amazon
The government and the 25 children and young people who filed a lawsuit to stop deforestation in the Amazon and tackle climate change must now create a plan to achieve this goal. Everyone can join the effort to protect this ecosystem.
Read MoreCampesinos will have to be included in the census: judges reignite their dialogue with the State
Thanks to the Supreme Court of Justice’s decision on the lawsuit filed by more than 1,700 campesinos who want to be counted in the 2018 population census, this group and the State once again sat down to talk.
Read MoreLitigation, science, and global warming
With the “science of attribution,” the Supreme Court of Justice has in its hands the strongest scientific basis by which to decide the lawsuit brought by 25 young people in the coming days.
Con la “ciencia de la atribución” la Corte Suprema de Justicia tendrá en sus manos las bases científicas más sólidas para decidir la tutela de los 25 jóvenes en los próximos días.
Read MoreCounting farmers
The opportunity to include peasants in the population census is gone, but the tools that the Supreme Court ordered remain. As proposed in the lawsuit filed, farmers have special constitutional protection and a specific cultural identity, distinct from others.
Read MoreTocqueville’s recipe
Judicial reform is of little use as long as there are no profound changes in judicial habits and, more specifically, in the moral integrity of magistrates.
Read MoreThe door of the State
From the Supreme Court scandal, the first thing that surprises is the mediocrity of the magistrates involved, but the signs of a network of corruption are the most serious. If confirmed, this would be the worst institutional horror of the last decades.
Read MoreAgainst the bad: transparency
As we take deeper measures to deal with the serious judicial crisis that we are experiencing, the Courts and the General Attorney’s Office must adopt immediate transparency actions to face corruption and regain citizens’ trust.
Read MoreIntervention: Political Speech and Special Constitutional Protection
Dejusticia argued before the Constitutional Court that journalist Luis Agustín González should not be criminally liable for his statements about politician Leonor Serrano.
Read MoreDemocracy or plutocracy?
Is the United States becoming aplutocracy? This is a legitimate question, since the influence of money in elections in that country is already overwhelming, and it may continue to increase due to a recent US Supreme Court decision (the McCutcheon case).
Read MoreThe Legal System has More than Just Defects
Criticism of the legal system has resumed with force. Many are well-founded, since the judicial system suffers from a series of problems such as slowness, lack of access and transparency, and corruption.
Read MoreRespect for the Law of Quotas
Dejusticia challenges the election of Dr. Nilson Pinilla Pinilla as new Judge of the Constitutional Court, due to violations of the Quotas Law and the restriction on voting for Dr. Pinilla by judges Dr. Pinilla had appointed.
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