Posts Tagged ‘Derechos de las mujeres’
Silences
Women who have the courage to denounce sexual harassment are often revictimized when faced with numerous obstacles to access justice. In addition, their versions of the events are rarely trusted, when they are not publicly threatened and denigrated. In light of these situation, no one has the right to question the silence of women who have been raped.
Read MoreMonitoring report on Resolution 1325 of the United Nations, Colombia 2017
he Sixth Monitoring Report of Resolution 1325 is a monitoring and implementation instrument, produced by Coalition 1325 since 2011. This report becomes important in the framework of the implementation of the Final Agreement between the Colombian Government and the FARC-EP, It follows up on Resolution 1325 and provides tools to assess the application of the gender approach and the participation of women in the implementation of the Agreement.
Read MoreNegotiating from the margins: The political participation of women in the peace processes of Colombia (1982-2016)
This book offers analyses and recommendations regarding the participation of women in peace processes so that peace agreements can become long-term social pacts that are both inclusive and committed to justice and equality.
Read MoreIt is time to end Miss Universe
It costs a lot, it is unnecessary and, despite the fact that women are adults, it hides acts of violence against them.
Read MorePeace for women
The biggest challenge of 2017 is to consolidate peace. The agreement between the Government and the FARC promises to promote comprehensive rural reform, a process of democratic openness, a system that guarantees the rights of victims of armed conflict and some solutions to the problem of illicit drug use. Promises that should materialize with a gender approach, which came to the Agreement thanks to the persistence of the social movement of women and remained in it, despite having been misrepresented during the campaign of the plebiscite.
Read MoreWhere are these so-called monsters born?
We refuse to believe that a “normal” person can become a perpetrator capable of raping and brutally murdering a girl, impaling a woman or burning her body with excessive cruelty.
Read MoreIncluding women in the peace process
Although women make up more than half of the population and are the group with the greatest number of victims in Colombia, only 3.6% of women were included in the spaces where decisions about peace have been made. (Spanish)
Read MoreDejusticia Intervenes in IACHR Public Hearing regarding Measures to Reduce Pre-Trial Detention in Latin America
This Tuesday April 5th 9AM Dejusticia, alongside other organizations, will intervene regarding the issue of women, prisons, and drug offenses.
Read MoreWomen, Drug Policy, and Imprisonment
This guide, written by the Washington Office on Latin America, the International Drug Policy Consortium, the Inter-American Commission of Women, and Dejusticia, proposes drug policy reform to reduce the female prison population in the Americas.
Read MoreThe Cigarras
The peace process treats gendered violence in a differentiated manner because it has been invisibilized like no other offense.
Read MoreWhy do Women Bear the Costs of Drug Policy?
There is nothing more erratic than a policy focused on persecuting the easily exchangeable parts of the drug trafficking market.
Read More2nd Women and Transitional Justice Meeting
From the 27th to the 28th of August Women’s and Victims’ Organizations will discuss the Truth Commision’s challenges and proposals.
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 MoreWe Presented an Amicus Curiae before the Constitutional Tribunal Asking for the Preservation of the Reform that Allows for Abortion
We presented an amicus curiae before the Constitutional Tribunal of the Dominican Republic in favor of the depenalization of abortion in the process that this court is considering to determine whether to preserve the reform to the Criminal Code that allows for abortion in three circumstances, thus protecting the life and integrity of Dominican women.
Read MoreTraining on Issues on Sexual Violence in the Armed Conflict: A Methodological Proposal for Public Servants
We contribute some pedagogical materials to develop a training program on this topic. We hope its implementation will contribute to an improvement in the attention given to survivors, and the investigation and judicialization of sexual violence committed in the armed conflict with the goal of reducing impunity for these crimes and increasing survivors’ access to justice.
Read MoreGender Inequality in the Labor Market: An Unresolved Challenge in Developing Countries
Global South countries cannot be content to have greater levels of women’s participation in the labor force if these do not go together with lower unemployment levels and higher salaries.
Read MoreThe Cost of Being a Woman
It is expensive to be a woman in our capitalist and sexist society.
Read MoreCongressional Women’s Caucus: A Story to Tell
Legislators formed the Congressional Women’s Caucus during the legislative period 2006-2010. This text seeks to give visibility to this process through the reconstruction of its history, challenges, and achievements.
Read MorePolitical Participation of Women and Political Parties after the 2011 Political Reform
This document analyzes the possible reach and limitations of two of the key requirements of Law 1475 of 2011 in order to identify strategies that will encourage the political participation of women in party politics. Historically, they have suffered from discrimination in their attempts to participate politically.
Read MoreLegislating and Representing? Female Senators’ Agenda in Congress (2006-2010)
In this book we hope to contribute empirically to the issue of women’s political representation in Colombia. Additionally, the book brings attention to the necessity to develop intermediary theoretical proposals that can open the conceptual debate regarding the inclusion and representation of women in the political arena.
Read MoreLand Restitution and Gender Perspectives
In this document the authors explore why the focus on gender is important to the integral restitution of land. It also shows that this focus is both useful and necessary to the full, effective and respectful restitution of human rights of the victims.
Read MoreAccess to Justice: Women, Armed Conflict, and Justice
This document examines the situation of female victims of human rights violations due to the Colombian armed conflict and their ability to effectively access justice.
Read MoreBetween Stereotypes: Labor Trajectories for Men and Women in Colombia
This document explores the labor trajectories of men and women. It finds that strategic decisions, as well as formal and informal labor market norms, are based on images, stereotypes and ideas about gender that leads to a division of labor by gender.
Read MoreChallenge to the appointment of the Superintendent of Health for failure of President Juan Manuel Santos to fulfill the quota law
Dejusticia, Sisma Mujer and the Red Nacional de Mujeres challenged the appointment of the Superintendent of Health for violation to the quota law.
Read MoreChallenge to the appointment of the Director of Colciencias due to noncompliance with the Quota Law
Challenge to the appointment of the director of Administrative Department of Science, Technology and Innovation (Colciencias) for violation of the Quotas Law.
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 MoreAmicus Curiae on the official duty to investigate sexual crimes and proof standards in sexual violence
Dejusticia submitted an amicus in a motion for legal protection case filed by a women’s organization against the Attorney General’s Office, claiming the infringement of the rights of access to justice and due process of a girl allegedly abused by her father.
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 MoreNullity action against the administrative act through which the House of Representatives chose Dr. Volmar Perez as Ombudsman on August 19, 2008.
Dejusticia, the Human Corporation Regional Center for Human Rights and Gender Justice, the Women National Network, and the Antigone Corporation for Social Development, Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law, filed a nullity action against the administrative act through which the House of Representatives chose Dr. Volmar Perez as Ombudsman, arguing that the triad formed by the national government did not respect the law of equal participation of women (Law 581 of 2000) which requires that the lists of candidates for positions such as the Ombudsman include at least one woman.
Read MoreAmicus Curiae for the case of sexual violence against women in Peru
The present Amicus Curiae, involves d five cases of sexual violence against women in the Peruvian armed conflict and argues that according to Peruvian and international law, the State must prosecute such acts of sexual violence
Read MoreRespect for the Law of Quotas
Dejusticia challenges the election of Dr. Nilson Pinilla Pinilla as new Judge of the Constitutional Court, due to violations of the Quotas Law and the restriction on voting for Dr. Pinilla by judges Dr. Pinilla had appointed.
Read MoreAbortion
Dejusticia intervened in Nicaragua, Mexico and Colombia arguing for the legalization of abortion in these countries.
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