Posts Tagged ‘Derechos de las víctimas’
Leaders Assassinated in Colombia: how many are left out of the counts?
This analysis by Dejusticia and the Human Rights Data Analysis Group groups the information compiled by different organizations regarding the homicides of social leaders in the country and concludes, through a statistical method, that the problem has a greater magnitude than what is reported.
Read MoreIncreasing Accountability
All Colombian society, especially economic actors who had no connection to the conflict, in an effort to go beyond political differences and as a gesture of solidarity towards the victims, should commit themselves to claim and promote victims’ rights without restrictions.
Read MoreFormer President of Bolivia Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada will go to trial in the US for his role in the massacre of more than 50 citizens
This Marks the First Time in U.S. History a Former Head of State Will Sit Before His Accusers in a Civil Human Rights Trial
Read MoreVictims and press after the war
The drive to conduct this research was born out of the tension that developed on May of 2017 in the context of the journalistic coverage of the exhumations of those who died in the Bojayá massacre.
Read MoreVictims and press after the war
The drive to conduct this research was born out of the tension that developed on May of 2017 in the context of the journalistic coverage of the exhumations of those who died in the Bojayá massacre.
Read MoreWhat structure for the Special Jurisdiction for Peace?
The Colombian high courts have had strong offices for each magistrate while the institution in itself is relatively weak. The JEP should not copy this model because given its large size, the risks of incoherence and lack of coordination would increase.
Read MoreAfro and indigenous peoples should be consulted about truth-seeking processes
The Constitutional Court is currently reviewing the decree that creates the Truth Commission for the implementation of the Peace Agreement. Dejusticia presented an intervention supporting the constitutionality of the decree, with the condition that the participation of various social sectors in future steps is guaranteed.
Read MoreDear Congress members, too much noise around the Special Jurisdiction for Peace!
The proposals asking to remove the application of the Special Jurisdiction for Peace to military and civilians ignore the complex dynamics of the armed conflict.
Read MorePeace, everyone’s business! Corporate accountability in transitional justice: lessons for Colombia
The report includes a comparative study of eight countries (Argentina, Brazil, South Africa, Guatemala, East Timor, Sierra Leone and Liberia) that used transitional justice to judge crimes by corporate actors during armed conflicts.
Read MoreLessons for Colombia from eight countries on corporate responsibility in transitional justice: report
The report includes a comparative study of eight countries (Argentina, Brazil, South Africa, Guatemala, East Timor, Sierra Leone and Liberia) that used transitional justice to judge crimes by corporate actors during armed conflicts.
Read More“If there is no water for the people, there is no water for the palm”: the ‘peace’ conflicts of Marialabaja
The Montes de María subregion in the Colombian Caribbean has been living for ten years what is now called postconflict: the absence of formal armed actors in the territory and the government’s commitment to guarantee rights and non-repetition.
Read MoreSeminar: 5 years after the Law of Victims and Restitution of Collective Territories – Impact On Indigenous and Afro-Descendent Communities
5 years after the Victims’ and Collective Territories Restitution Law was passed a seminar evaluates its impact on indigenous and Afro-Descendent communities in Colombia.
Read MoreThe Peace Agreement in Colombia Matters, and it Could Set an Example for Entrenched Conflicts Elsewhere
The international community is engaging productively in a peace processes whose success is looking more likely by the day. And it’s worth taking note, because this peace negotiation process is yielding important innovations to balance justice and peace, and to focus the process on victims’ rights and reparations.
Read MoreThe Solicitor General and the Palace
I welcome the Solicitor General’s press release in memory of the judges and members of the armed forces that lost their lives in the taking and re-taking of Palace of Justice. The problem is that this attitude contrasts with his silence and insensibility towards the victims of these events: the disappeared and their families.
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 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 MoreThe Legal Vine of Peace
Peace, according to the FARC, is basically a political process that should remove the “legal vine” with which some would like to choke the life out of it. César Gaviria has weighed in similarly ashis idea of “transitional justice for everyone” is not legal but political: the ex-President thinks of it as a “collective political decision,” that cannot be put off by international law.
Read MoreThe Victims in the Peace Process
Victims’ participation in the peace negotiation roundtable between the FARC and the national government is an iconic event for our country. Many have minimized the importance of this participation without knowing it is unprecedented in other similar negotiation processes.
Read MoreVictims: Beyond Media Noise
The well-deserved recognition and the necessary protagonism of victims has created, nevertheless, serious risks like oversimplification, political manipulation, deceit, demagogy, and a lack of fulfillment and respect for their rights.
Read MoreJustice to Achieve Peace: Heinous Crimes, the Right to Negotiated Peace and Justice
This book seeks to contribute to the difficult debate on how to reconcile the imperatives of justice and the rights of the victims, with the internal dynamics of a peace negotiation.
Read MoreAccess to justice for women victims of sexual violence
Fifth follow-up report on Decision 092 of the Constitutional Court.
Read MoreIntervention in challenge to article 9 of the Victims’ Law
Dejusticia intervened in a challenge to article 9 of the Victims’ Law which provided that reparations in judicial proceedings must be equal to those in administrative proceedings.
Read MoreConstitutional claim for victims of forced disappearance to be recognized as victims of political violence to access humanitarian aid.
This claim, submitted jointly by the Nydia Erika Bautista Foundation and Dejusticia, aims to correct this legislative omission so that victims of forced disappearance are recognized as victims of political violence and so that they have access to humanitarian aid without having to undertake the process of obtaining a presumption of death declaration.
Read MoreAmicus curiae in tutela for protection of the right to mental health of victims of forced displacement
Dejusticia supports the tutela to ensure the right to health of four women who have not received comprehensive care for the serious mental and emotional disorders they suffer following their forced displacement due to violence of the armed conflict
Read MoreReparations in Colombia: Dilemmas in a Context of Conflict, Poverty and Exclusion
This publication contributes answers to the challenges based on the need to repair grave violations committed in a context of war, poverty and exclusion.
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