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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.

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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.

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Why 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.”

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Decriminalizing 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.

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The 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.”

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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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Artículo de Litigio

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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Artículo de Litigio

Abortion

Dejusticia intervened in Nicaragua, Mexico and Colombia arguing for the legalization of abortion in these countries.

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