Posts Tagged ‘Matrimonio Igualitario’
Dejusticia and other organizations support the case brought before the United States Supreme Court to protect the right to non-discrimination of same-sex couples
The United States Supreme Court will hear the case of a same-sex couple in Colorado who was denied a cake for their wedding by a pastry chef claiming religious (specifically Christian) objections. In an intervention presented before this Court, Dejusticia and other organizations of the INCLO network supported the couple’s right not to be discriminated against.
Read MoreIntervention in an advisory opinion before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in relation to gender identity and economic rights of same-sex couples
On December 6, 2016, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights invited Dejusticia to present written comments, within the framework of an Advisory Opinion requested by the State of Costa Rica in May 2016.
Read MoreMarriage Equality Approved
The Constitutional Court approved marriage equality. Congratulations! Here are some of the arguments that Dejusticia has presented over time.
Read MoreMarriage Equality or Legal “Apartheid”?
The Constitutional Court should define if in Colombia there is marriage equality, which is, if same-sex couples have the same right to marry as heterosexual couples; or if they can only aspire to formalize their union and their family with a different contract, a type of “solemn union.”
Read MoreCivil Matrimony as Shared Public Space
The Court must determine what reasons justify, in our world today, same-sex couple’s prohibition to accessing civil matrimony.
Read MoreMarriage Equality is Unstoppable
Last February 7th was the nine-year anniversary of the Constitutional Court’s ruling recognizing the legal existence of same-sex couples and their inheritance rights through the institution of “de facto marital unions”, or popularly known as free unions.
Read MoreRodrigo Uprimny’s Intervention before the Inter-American Court
See the recording of the public hearing regarding the case against Colombia due to discrimination based on sexual orientation.
Read MoreSeparate but Equal
This was the name given to the U.S. Supreme Court doctrine from the infamous case Plessy v. Ferguson, which sought to defend the indefensible: that racial segregation against African-Americans did not violate equality. This reference is useful in Colombia for the discussion about same-sex marriage.
Read MoreMarriage Equality Public Hearing
This July 30th the Constitutional Court held a public hearing to discuss whether or not it should approve marriage equality nationally and not annull the existing marriages between same-sex couples.
Read MoreMore Catholic Than the Pope
For those that were educated in Catholic schools during John Paul II’s papacy, to be more Catholic than the pope meant defending ultraconservative positions on topics like birth control or the rights of women and same-sex couples.
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 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 MoreIntervention on the constitutionality of Art. 113 of the Civil Code regarding civil marriage
Dejusticia supports plaintiffs which challenge Article 113 of the Civil Code that establishes marriage only for heterosexual couples and defines procreation as one of its purposes
Read MoreIntervention same-sex couples
Dejustica intertervened at the request of the Constitutional Court in order to opine regarding whether scientific evidence demonstrates that children are affected by growing up in families with same sex parents.
Read MoreSocial Security: Same-Sex Couples
Lawsuit challenging the normas of article 1 of Law 54 of 1990 and articles 47, 74 & 163 of Law 100 of 1993, which restrict social security benefits to heterosexual couples.
Read MoreLawsuit Against Discriminatory Norms against Same-Sex Couples
Challenge to a series of norms that exclude homosexual couples. Dejusticia alleges violations of articles 1, 13 & 16 of the Constitution and in some cases articles 2, 12, 13, 15, 16, 18, 24, 29, 40, 48, 49, 51, 58, 64, 66, 93, 95, 100, 123, 126, 209, 229, 250 numbers 6 and 7 of the Constitution.
Read MoreHealth: Same-Sex Couples
Citizen intervention in challenge to the constitutionality of Law 100 of 1993, which limits health benefits to heterosexual couples.
Read MorePatrimonial rights: Same – sex couples
Citizen intervention in the challenge to Article 1 of the Law 54 of 1990 and Article 2 of the Law 54 of 1990 modified by the Law 979 of 2005, which limit patrimony laws to heterosexual couples.
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