Posts Tagged ‘Derecho a la familia’
Monsignor Castro: To Build Bridges or Walls?
The Catholic Church has played an important role in the search for peace in Colombia. However, the bishops’ extremism against equal adoption sends a contradictory message to society.
Read MoreA Hopeful Advance for Equality
There aren’t many occassions that allow you to have a certain degree of optimism that it is possible to build a freer, more pluralist and just world.
Read MoreWhat Happens when US Christian Fundamentalists Shape Public Policy in the Global South?
While religion can positively impact issues of social justice and human rights, it is profoundly problematic that the religious beliefs of a minority of the US are permitted to dictate issues of public health and morality in the Global South.
Read MoreReferendum and Adoption
Viviane Morales’ main argument for a referendum regarding adoption by same-sex couples bases itself on an incomplete idea of democacy: democracy as the rule of the majority. However, it is precisely this lone premise that is incompatible with our democratic model.
Read MoreGay Prejudices
Promiscuity, instability, pedophilia, HIV, among other opinions, threathen the LGBTI community members’ lives and exercise of rights.
Read MoreCollective Novel
When deciding a case where the law is ambiguous, should a judge impose their moral convictions, even if it affects the law’s coherence? Or should they protect the law’s consistency, even if this goes against their personal morals?
Read MoreTrusting Each Other’s Choices
If the Colombian Constitutional Court trusts that heterosexuals and homosexuals alike can decide who makes up their families, the debate about homoparental families should not end.
Read MoreIn Favor of Children?
If the adoption by same-sex couples really presented a risk for the adoptee, I would oppose that possibility as adoption exists so that a child without a home may get a family, and not so much so that the adopting parents can have a child. The prevailing right, then, is the right of children to be adopted.
Read MoreReferendum and Adoption
Vivian Morales’ principal argument for a referendum on adoption by same-sex couples is based on an incomplete idea of democracy: democracy as majority rule.
Read MoreTwo Mothers, One Daughter: A Family
Two events last week gave much to talk about in Colombia. In the morning, a female minister from Santos’ cabinet spoke on a radio program about her relationship with another female office minister. These declarations unsettled a sector of society that still today reproach a same-sex couple so close to power and a lesbian education minister.
Read MoreChandler Burr case: individual adoption and sexual orientation
Dejusticia and Colombia Diversa challenged the decision of ICBF authorities to remove two adopted children from the custody of Mr. Burr after the authorities learned he was gay.
Read MoreAmicus in tutela proceeding regarding a voluntary interruption of pregnancy due to the risk to the mental health of the woman.
Dejusticia intervened to support the protection of the fundamental rights of a woman who was denied the right to terminate her pregnancy, although her situation fit into one of the three circumstances in which abortion is permitted, namely, the risk to the women’s mental health.
Read MoreLawsuit to permit gay marriage.
Colombia Diversa and Dejusticia presented this lawsuit with to challenge the restriction of civil marriage to heterosexual couples. We argue that this restriction violates the rights to equality, to the recognition of legal personality, to privacy and good name, and to the free development of personality of homosexual couples.
Read MoreIntervention in tutela to ensure adoption process by a homosexual permanent partner.
Dejusticia and Colombia Diversa intervened before the Constitutional Court to protect the rights of a lesbian couple to formally adopt a child one had conceived through in vitro fertilization during their relationship after the Colombian Institute of Family Welfare (ICBF) denied the non-biological mother the right to adopt the child because of her sexual orientation.
Read MoreChallenge to the request for annulment of the decree that regulates the provision of services for voluntary interruption of pregnancy
Dejusticia requests the Council of State refuse the request for nullity of the decree that regulates the provision of services for voluntary interruption of pregnancy. We argue that this regulation is legitimate as Act 100 of 1993 establishes that the National Government is the competent authority to regulate the provision of health services.
Read MoreIntervention on the constitutionality of Art. 113 of the Civil Code regarding civil marriage
Dejusticia supports plaintiffs which challenge Article 113 of the Civil Code that establishes marriage only for heterosexual couples and defines procreation as one of its purposes
Read MoreIntervention same-sex couples
Dejustica intertervened at the request of the Constitutional Court in order to opine regarding whether scientific evidence demonstrates that children are affected by growing up in families with same sex parents.
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