Posts Tagged ‘Derecho a la intimidad’
What 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 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 MoreRussian telegrams and Colombian WhatsApp messages
In Colombia, although the intelligence law prohibits telephone tapping since 2013, an wrong interpretation would seem to force providers, such as WhatsApp or Telegram, to provide “any other information that contributes” to the user’s location.
Read MorePrivate life in a public way
The new Police Code confuses privacy with staying at home and targets the right to privacy.
Read MoreWhy people do not like the new Police Code
Colombia has a new Police Code. The law that created these new rules for “coexistence” has 241 articles, was drafted by the Ministry of Defense in the company of the same National Police and had the approval of Congress. Its spirit, the document says, is “preventive.”
Read MoreDejusticia Files Suit to Protect the Right to Privacy Under the New Police Code in Colombia
Dejusticia filed a lawsuit before the Constitutional Court, arguing that several articles of Colombian Law 1801 of 2016 (Police Code) violate the right to privacy.
Read MoreThe good judge Brandeis
Let’s pretend that it is 2025 and we can already scan brains to know, for instance, if their owners have been trained by ISIS.
Read MoreThe UN, Colombia, and private life
Advances in information and communications technology offer great solutions to human development and democratic participation.
Read MoreDecriminalizing HIV
Criminalization of HIV is an inappropriate measure to address this type of public health problem, and also has negative effects on the rights of those living with HIV.
A Net to Fish Data
The Colombian state is arming itself to the teeth to do mass surveillance on our communications.
Read MoreHacking Is More Than Wiretaps
Who oversees the National Police’s hacking?
Read MoreColombian Police Ought to Clarify Their Relationship with “Hacking Team”
According to investigations, the Colombian Police allegedly contracted Hacking Team in order to gain access to citizens’ digital information.
Read MorePolice Searches at Discretion? The Tension between Security and Privacy
This text seeks to harmonize the duty of the National Police to preserve public order and guarantee security with the right to privacy.
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 MoreThe Mail of Dishonor
In one of the most difficult moments of the French Revolution (September 1793), when Robespierre feared that his political project would topple, the revolutionary government promulgated a law that identified suspects as “all those who due to their behavior, relationships, intent, or writings, reveal themselves in favor of federalism and as enemies of liberty.”
Read MorePat-Downs, Up to Discretion?
In Colombia we have not seriously debated in what cases the police in a public space can stop, ask for identification, or pat-down a person.
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 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.
Read MoreAbortion
Dejusticia intervened in Nicaragua, Mexico and Colombia arguing for the legalization of abortion in these countries.
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