Posts Tagged ‘Derechos económicos’
The national government geographically isolated Chocó
We intervened to support a tutela that requires the government to pave the
Quibdó-Medellín and Quibdó-Pereira roads: a promise that has historically been unfulfilled.
Open Applications for Intensive Course on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
The Intensive Course on Social Rights opens its application process, open until August 15, 2017. The course, which will be taught from October 23 to 27, 2017 in Bogotá, offers advanced training on litigation, research, jurisprudence and innovative strategies for implementing social rights.
Read MoreCourt Recognizes consumers’ Right to Access Information About the Effects of Sugary Drinks on Health – A First in Colombia
The Supreme Court vindicated the right of consumers to access a commercial about the health effects of sugary drinks whose dissemination had been prohibited.
Read More“Social Rights Judgments and the Politics of Compliance” published by Cambridge University is now available
The book “Social Rights Judgments and the Politics of Compliance”, edited by César Rodríguez Garavito, director of Dejusticia, Malcolm Langford (Univ. Oslo) and Julieta Rossi (Univ. Lanús) was just published.
Read MoreStates must guarantee the ESCR of refugees and migrants
The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ESCR) published a new press release clarifying the obligations that derive from the International Covenant on ESCR regarding refugee and migrant populations in each country.
Read MoreViolence against defenders of social rights is, in itself, a violation of ESCR
The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights of the United Nations recently reminded States that they have a responsibility to ensure the protection of human rights defenders.
Read MoreFiscal policy is a tool to fight poverty: communicated to the IACHR
Dejusticia and other organizations presented this press release to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), which offers some comments from civil society to the Commission’s preliminary report on Poverty and Human Rights in the Americas. The group of organizations welcome the initiative of the Commission to produce this report. We also emphasize the urgency of having normative standards that, at the inter-American level, serve as concrete parameters for analyzing the efforts of States to phase out poverty and extreme poverty.
Read MoreDiscussion forum: The Future of Social Rights
As part of our Intensive Course on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: Latin America in a Global Context, we invite you to an event on October 25th on the future of socials rights. The event will be livestreamed.
Read MoreIntensive Course on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: Latin America in a Global Context Begins
The course brings national and international scholars in the area, as well as 23 participants to learn and build knowledge from the Global South.
Campaign to raise awareness about the harm of sugary drinks
In Colombia, more than 50% of the population suffers from obesity or overweight. Sugary drinks have a direct effect on this statistic.
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