Posts Tagged ‘Discriminación’
In the prison of Oscar Wilde
When Oscar Wilde entered prison to pay his sentence for sodomy, he stopped being the popular and witty poet of the end of the 19th century.
Read MorePalenque: to celebrate and resist
Several buses of people wearing weekend clothes stopped in the highway at the entrance of San Basilio de Palenque.
Read MoreWhy Same-Sex Adoption Should Not Be Put to Vote
The current binary in Colombia presents an opportunity to ask when populations should vote on specific policies.
Read MoreUrgent discussions
When will we stop talking about the daily news and turn to the urgent discussion?
Read MoreBody Politics: Governing Women’s Bodies
Women’s bodies are a battleground for the meanings vested in them, and for the social and cultural resources expected to be obtained by intervening on them. Two modes of intervention on the body show this, and pose particular risks for girls: Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) and plastic surgery.
Read MoreHappy Pride in Peace
June 28th is a commemoration and holiday at the same time.
Read MorePublic Prosecutor’s Office and Gender
How necessary is a gender perspective in the Public Prosecutor’s Office?
Read MoreOrlando: Equality and Violence
In the years I have been writing this column, I have never received such vicious comments as when I talk about the rights of the LGBTI population: when the homophobia of his school extinguished Sergio Urrego’s life, or when same-sex couples stopped being second-class citizens and were able to marry in civil unions or marriage.
Read MorePain for Orlando
One day, a rumor arrives at your door: 50 people have been killed in a gay club in Orlando and your first reaction is disbelief. When you can see with your own eyes that which seems a horror story, you ask yourself questions full of sorrow.
Read MoreAli and Pelé
Sports fans like myself who grew up in the 70s were all fans of the sports kings of that time: Pelé and Muhammad Ali.
Read MoreScholars and Journalists
It is regrettable that the debate about academic fraud in Colombia has broken out surrounding the case of the scientist Raúl Cuero. But it would be even more regrettable if the debate turned against the researcher Rodrigo Bernal, who did nothing more than what his job demands: to rigorously investigate and publish what he finds (in this case, Cuero’s real record).
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 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 MoreChallenge to the appointment of three government ministers (Housing, Interior, and Transportation) for violation of the Quotas Law by President Santos.
Dejusticia, Sisma Mujer y la Red Nacional de Mujeres challenged the appointment of the Ministers of Housing, Interior and Transportation, because in nominating men for these positions, President Santos led to a violation of Ley 581 of 2000 (Quotas Law) which requires that at least 30 percent of Ministries are led by women.
Read MoreIntervention in motion for legal protection of fundamental rights concerning blood donation by men involved in same sex relationships.
Dejusticia addressed the Constitutional Court in a motion for the legal protection of fundamental rights which examined whether a Clinical Laboratory had discriminated against a gay man by rejecting him as a blood donor
Read MoreChandler Burr case: individual adoption and sexual orientation
Dejusticia and Colombia Diversa challenged the decision of ICBF authorities to remove two adopted children from the custody of Mr. Burr after the authorities learned he was gay.
Read MoreIntervention in tutela proceedins for protection of rights concerning discriminatory speech
Dejusticia and Racial Discrimination Watch intervened before the Constitutional Court in a tutela proceeding filed by a student of the University Distrital Francisco José de Caldas who alleged he was the victim of racial discrimination because of racist remarks of a teacher during class.
Read MoreLawsuit to permit gay marriage.
Colombia Diversa and Dejusticia presented this lawsuit with to challenge the restriction of civil marriage to heterosexual couples. We argue that this restriction violates the rights to equality, to the recognition of legal personality, to privacy and good name, and to the free development of personality of homosexual couples.
Read MoreIntervention in tutela for the of the right to equality and free development of personality of a transgender person
Colombia Diversa, Women’s Link and Dejusticia intervened before the Constitutional Court to protect the plaintiff’s rights to equality and free development of personality after having been denied entry to two nightclub due to his transgender identity.
Read MoreIntervention in tutela to ensure adoption process by a homosexual permanent partner.
Dejusticia and Colombia Diversa intervened before the Constitutional Court to protect the rights of a lesbian couple to formally adopt a child one had conceived through in vitro fertilization during their relationship after the Colombian Institute of Family Welfare (ICBF) denied the non-biological mother the right to adopt the child because of her sexual orientation.
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.
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