Posts Tagged ‘Derechos Humanos’
Is Democracy in Brazil at stake?
Following what some consider a coup attempt on January 8, Brazil’s federal powers are taking action against the far right. Will they be able to act decisively without undermining the institutions they defend?
Read MoreReimagining the Future of Human Rights
The chapters in this book offer a snapshot of the current state of Human Rights that can help guide our work as activists and researchers.
Read MoreEl Salvador: State of Exception and Attacks against Human Rights Defenders and Organizations Facilitate State Abuses
We call on the government of El Salvador to comply with its international commitments on human rights and cease attacks against national and international civil society organizations that work for the protection of fundamental rights.
Read MoreINCLO condemns Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and joins calls for an immediate cease fire
As INCLO members, we raise our collective voice to condemn Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, its violation of international law, and the war crimes and human rights violations being committed against the people in Ukraine.
Read MoreNew Research Report: “The Defense of Human Rights in Venezuela”
This report is the result of an assessment of the obstacles that civil society organizations are facing, as well as their resistance and resilience in their continued defense of human rights.
Read MoreProtecting Human Rights on the Ground
During the investigation, the presence of OHCHR completed its first six months in Venezuela, so a consultation with human rights defenders in the country was included to assess this experience. Being the first comparative research in this field, its findings are equally of interest to other audiences beyond Venezuela.
Read More“Protecting Human Rights on the Ground,” a report on UNHCR country offices
This research is intended to offer tools to the Venezuelan human rights movement, to other civil society organizations, and to States who have an interest in the establishment of a UNHCR office in Venezuela.
Read MoreREQUIEM FOR JUSTICE: 44 writers, musicians and activists rally against social injustice and oppression amidst Covid-19
28-29-30 August 2020 at 5:00PM GMT, 12:00PM Bogotá – Online
Read MoreDejusticia welcomes Mary Lawlor’s appointment as the new UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders
In continuity with the Michel Forst’s work, we hope that the Special Rapporteur will visit Colombia and follow up on the report made by her predecessor
Read MoreControlling the Pandemic, Guaranteeing Rights
Already in various cases, such measures have been used to consolidate governmental power and to weaken the opposition, often using the health crisis as a pretext.
Read MoreFrom repression to migration: The case of Rufo Chacón
Rufo Chacón, in the company of his mother, is preparing to travel to Spain, where he will get the surgical intervention needed to improve his condition.
Read MoreEnlaza Venezuela arrives on October 2nd to the Museum of Modern Art of Bogotá
This will be an event that will show attendees the different paths that exist to support organizations that continue to work to transform the situation in Venezuela.
Read MoreEighth Global Action-Research Workshop for Young Human Rights Advocates
We invite applications from young professionals from the Global South who are engaged in advocacy around migration
Read MoreLeaders 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 MoreA Chain of Inequalities
The decline of redistributive agrarian reforms coupled with growing patterns of land concentration and land-grabbing threaten to exacerbate cycles of inequality in the countryside, in the city, and around the world.
Read MoreThe justice needs of the world
States need to know the legal needs of their populations and the ways in which citizens act to manage and resolve those needs in order to design better schemes for the resolution of disputes and for providing access to justice.
Read MoreIn Venezuela, cancer patients are dying without access to morphine
The shortage of medicine in Venezuela has generated a humanitarian crisis that impacts thousands of patients. According to approximated statistics, only 10% of patients with terminal and/or chronic illnesses that require medication like morphine actually enjoy access to such. They face a dilemma of having to choose between hunger and pain.
Read MoreTwo possible worlds, two feelings
Globally, we live a new spring of hope, but also a new winter of despair. Despite advances in social welfare, the shadow of populism and the increase in inequality remind us that there are reasons to work for a better world.
Read MoreThe State of Disunion
Last Tuesday, President Donald Trump delivered his first State of the Union address. Instead of uniting the nation, as it is expected in these occasions, his words deepened division.
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 MoreVenezuela: freedom for Juan Pedro Lares
I want to share a story with those who question the gravity of the breakdown of human rights and democracy in Venezuela.
Read MoreMilitant hope
Hope should not only be cautious but militant: young people around the world should mobilize against politicians like Trump who are willing to damage the world in which they, the young, will live tomorrow.
Read More21st century socialism, dictatorship or rebellion?
The Venezuelan government is advancing in its plan to dismantle the 1999 Bolivarian Constitution. And it is the 21st century rebels who defend democracy and human rights against the heirs of 21st century socialism who abdicated their democratic promise.
Read MoreExtractivism versus human rights: chronicles of the mined fields in the Global South
Un nuevo acercamiento a los derechos humanos: escritura reflexiva por autores activistas de organizaciones defensoras que considera el potencial, los logros y desafíos de su práctica.
Read MoreHuman Rights in Minefields
This book compiles accounts from sixteen action-researchers from the global South about different human rights issues in their respective countries. It is the result of the first Global Action-Research Workshop hosted and organized by Dejusticia.
Read MoreDejusticia Intervenes in Lawsuit Against Adoption Laws That Discriminate Against Differently Mentally Abled People
We intervened in a lawsuit arguing the unconstitutionality of the text “also when inflicted with a mental illness” of the 66th article of the Infant and Adolescent Code that regulates parent’s consent to give up their child for adoption.
Read MoreDejusticia Intervenes in Process to Protect the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in Campeche, Mexico
Dejusticia presented an amicus curiae before the First Court of the Trigésimo First Circuit District of San Francisco de Campeche in the state of Campeche, Mexico to support a process of constitutional protection in which the community of San Antonio de Ébula seeks to protect its fundamental rights after forced displacement in 2009.
Read MoreDejusticia Intervenes in Sergio Urrego’s Case Against Homophobic Bullying in Schools
Dejusticia presented an amicus curiae (a document that outlines a legal concept) to support the writ of constitutional protection proceeding filed by Sergio Urrego’s mother against his former school, the Gimnasio Castillo Campestre. Sergio Urrego was a young victim who committed suicide on September 5th, 2014 as a result of homophobic bullying he experienced in his school.
In the document, Dejusticia asked the Court to revoke the sentence referred to by the Second Section of the Council of State and protect the rights requested by Sergio’s mother.
Read MoreVenezuela: Stop Harassing Human Rights Defenders
Dejusticia joins the call of several international organizations asking Venezuela to stop harrassing human rights defenders.
Read MoreThe Future of Human Rights: From Gatekeeping to Symbiosis
The international human rights movement faces a context of uncertainty due to: (i) the rise of a multipolar world with new emerging powers, (ii) the emergence of new actors and legal and political strategies, (iii) the challenges and opportunities presented by information and communication technologies, as well as (iv) the threat posed by extreme environmental degradation.
Read MoreAmicus Curiae for Mr. President of the Transitory Liquidating Criminal Court
Presented by the Due Process of Law Foundation, Human Rights Center of the Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador, the Center for the Study of Law, Justice, and Society- Dejusticia.
Read MoreHuman Rights, Democracy, and Development
Human rights are undergoing a transformation. Around the world debates have proliferated regarding human rights discourses, practices, and studies to the point that some speak about “the end of human rights.” This context is unlike anything since the beginning of the international human rights system around the mid twentieth century.
Read MoreIntervention before the IACtHR regarding Costa Rica’s prohibition of invitro fertilization
Dejusticia presented an amicus before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights regarding Costa Rica’s prohibition of in vitro fertilization.
Read MorePractical Guide of the International System of Protection of Human Rights
The guide is an effort to improve the quality and availability of the information regarding the systems in place to protect human rights. It serves as a reference for individuals interested in the relation of justice, conflict, law and order to human rights.
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