Posts Tagged ‘Derechos civiles’
Interventions in lawsuits against four aspects of the New Police Code
Dejusticia carried out citizen interventions regarding the constitutionality of Police Code articles that establish police measures for several categories of persons and activities.
Read MoreBeing detained for arguing with the police?
Last Friday at 11 pm, a friend who I was with received a call from two of her friends who told her they were being taken to the UPJ for having a beer in the Park of the Hippies in Bogotá
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 MoreBojayá, the town we left without a voice or a vote
“The paramilitaries enter, two weeks later, the FARC enters, and kills half the town.” This is how Maxima, a black woman in the Committee for the Rights of the Bojayá Victims, summarizes what happened on May 2, 2002.
Read MoreThe year we crashed against ourselves
2016 is ending and I cannot find a better title to encapsulate it that the one of Martín Caparrós’ op-ed: “the year in which we crashed against ourselves.'”
Read MoreNot for Sale
And it meant that the “Not for Sale” signs pointed to something more than the constant potential for theft. They also pointed to the structural problem of land distribution and access to property in the country.
Read MoreRodrigo Uprimny Gives Expert Testimony at the Inter-American Court in Case Against Colombia Regarding Discrimination due to Sexual Orientation
Alberto Duque was denied surviving spouse pension following the death of his same-sex partner. Watch the hearing live via streaming.
Read MoreMarriage Equality Public Hearing
This July 30th the Constitutional Court held a public hearing to discuss whether or not it should approve marriage equality nationally and not annull the existing marriages between same-sex couples.
Read MoreThe United States Shows that It Is Possible to Build a Path towards Equality
In a pluralist democracy it is discriminatory for a person to be deprived of a right due to their sexual orientation. Today the Supreme Court of the United States legalized same-sex marriage.
Read MoreThe Crusade Against Medicinal Marihuana
Colombia is close to legalizing medicinal marihuana. The bill drafted by senator Juan Manuel Galán seeks to authorize, in the head of government, the growing, harvest and use of cannabis for scientific research or for the creation of therapeutic or medicinal products.
Read MoreIntervention in the statutory law of political reform
Dejusticia intervened before the Court with regards of the constitutional review of the statutory bill of political reform, specifically in the study of Articles 2, 28 and 47.
Read MoreIntervention in request for protection measures for the land rights of internally displaced persons
Dejusticia intervened in a tutela in which the plaintiff sought the lifting of protective measures that affected his property in order to freely dispose of it.
Read MoreIntervention in the lawsuit against Articles 14 to 17 of the Anti-smoking Act (1335 of 2009).
Dejusticia intervenes to defend the constitutionality of Articles 14-17 of Act 1335 of 2009 (Anti-smoking act), which ban the advertisement of tobacco derivatives.
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