Posts Tagged ‘Género’
A campaign against hate
A few months before the elections, the political context is being shaken up with hatred towards the LGBTI population. Reacting to hate is not easy, we need irony, the weight of reality and allies on the other side.
Read MoreIn the country side, life is much harder for women than for men
The progress made in the Peace Agreement on the recognition of the triple discrimination faced by rural women in Colombia cannot be just words and empty promises.
Read MorePolitical equality and women
On March 8 we celebrated woman’s day, which seeks to eradicate discrimination and gender violence. In the context of this celebration, it may be worth remembering that Colombia could have been a world vanguard in recognizing the political equality of women.
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 MoreGender and peace
The support of many Christians to the peace process will depend on them abandoning their opposition to the accord based on what they have called “gender ideology.”
Read MoreThe Growing Political Power of Christian Groups in Colombia is a Threat to Women and LGBTI People’s Rights
Given the stereotype of Colombia as a traditional, machista country, it was refreshing for me to see how the country used an effective separation of Church and State to be a leader in protecting the rights of women and LGBTI people. However, the growth of conservative morality and religious based movements and the tactics they are using to oppose such rights is uncomfortably similar to those I have witnessed in the United States.
Read MoreThe Rapists with Diplomatic Immunity and the Victims without Justice
Almost a decade ago some U.S. military men raped a twelve year old girl in Melgar. The US refuses to investigate the case and Colombia likewise refuses to attend to the victim. Today this girl is a woman and continues searching for justice.
Read MoreWhat Type of Public Prosecutor?
Néstor Humberto Martínez’s response to the Supreme Court about how to confront intra-family violence raises worries about his lack of sensitivity regarding gendered violence.
Read MoreWomen, Drug Policy, and Imprisonment: A Guide for Reforming Policy in Colombia
This guide diagnoses the impact of deprivation of liberty on women imprisoned due to drug offenses, and formulates recommendations to mitigate and prevent the disproportionate effects of incarceration.
Read MoreExercising the Right to Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy in the Context of Armed Conflict
One of the central aims of this text is to overcome, in a first attempt, the lack of data regarding abortions and the armed conflict, and the obstacles women face when trying to access that procedure in those contexts.
Read MoreOrganizations Request Commitment to the Elimination of Gendered Violence in Habana
The Gender Subcommission invited ten human and women’s rights organizations to meet in Cuba.
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 MoreColombia Diversa and Dejusticia Registered a Citizen Petition in LDM and RPA’s Writ of Constitutional Protection Process, Acting in Their Own Name and in Representation of their Children S and SVP
Submitted with Mauricio Albarracín Caballero, Eliana Robles Pallares y Mávilo Nicolás Giraldo, Colombia Diversa’s executive director and members of the litigation team.
Read MoreDo Not Interrupt the Law: The National Health Superintendency’s Purview on the Right to Choose
This document seeks to contribute new arguments to advance the debate about the implementation of guarantees to the right to choose in Colombia, overcoming the two obstacles outlined in the report.
Read MoreBefore the Courts: Judicial Needs and Access to Justice in Colombia
This book aims to be the most comprehensive diagnosis of legal needs and access to justice conducted in Colombia.
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 MoreThe Culture of Compliments and Street Harassment
Giving compliments on the street is not flattering, it is sexual harassment of women on the street.
Read MoreWhat is Missing from the Separate Spaces for Women
Parting from the assumption that the separate spaces for women on the Transmilenio public transportation system is just a temporary measure that is attempting to mitigate a particular problem, we cannot ask to much of it.
Read MoreCoalition Report UN Resolution 1325 on Peace and Democracy in Colombia
Since 2011, Coalition 1325 has drafted a report on UN Security Council´s Resolution 1325 monitoring the implementation of the Resolution in Colombia. This year, given the peace dialogues between the Colombian Government and the FARC-EP, this report is especially important because Resolution 1325 calls upon signatory states to include women in peace processes and post conflict scenarios, and to guarantee the rights of the women victims of armed conflict.
Read MoreRemembering our Brothers and Sisters: November 20th, Transgender Day of Remembrance
The fact that 64% of transgender persons in Bogota suffer some sort of aggression because of their gender identity shows that we need to exchange our prejudices for respect and comprehension.
Read MoreLawsuit against the designation of the Superintendent of Vigilance and Private due to the noncompliance of the Quota Law
Dejusticia, Sisma Mujer and the Red Nacional de Mujeres challenged the selection of the Superintendent of Surveillance and Private Security as a violation of the Quotas Law, arguing that the President had an obligation to appoint a woman for the post, and yet appointed a man.
Read MoreThe Law and Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy
The State Council’s decision to nullify Decree 444 of 2006 isn’t surprising. It also doesn’t change the current regulation on access to the voluntary interruption of pregnancy (VIP) in the three cases where it has been recognized by the Constitutional Court.
Read More13th Discussion Document: Quota Law in Colombia: Progress and Challenges. Ten Years of Law 581 of 2000
In 2000 the Colombian legislature approved a law aimed at promoting equal participation of women in high-level state offices through the adoption of a quota system that orders that at least 30% of public offices are occupied by women.
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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