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Collective 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?

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In 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.

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Two 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.

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Artículo de Litigio

Lawsuit 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.

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Artículo de Litigio

Intervention 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.

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Artículo de Litigio

Challenge 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.

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Intervention 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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