Posts Tagged ‘Proceso de paz’
Is it valid for Colombia to demand that Cuba turn over ELN negotiators?
The crucial point is that Cuba is not harboring the ELN negotiators with the goal of supporting this organization in its armed fight; rather, Cuba is following a request by the Colombian government that was made and accepted by the Colombian State in order to advance a peace process.
Read MoreLand in transition: transitional justice, land restitution and agrarian policy in Colombia
This new Dejusticia publication presents an analysis on the transition processes in Colombia in order to address conflicts related to land ownership, tenure and use.
Read MoreEverything You Need to Know About the Colombian Peace Process
César Rodríguez Garavito, Executive Director of Dejusticia, gives a crash course on these complex aspects of the Colombian transition to peace in this talk at the American University of Beirut sponsored by The Legal Agenda and Issam Fares Institute.
Read MoreGuerillian homophobia in Vistahermosa
The FARC should apologize to all LGBTI people for violating the human dignity of a historically discriminated population, and to explain if this was an institutional policy.
Read MoreLos Guáimaros resist being forgotten
August 30th marks the 15th anniversary of the massacre in the village of Los Guáimaros, in Montes de María. Despite the cruelty of those 15 deaths and their impact, their story remains untold and no one knows who did it.
Read MoreDejusticia refrains from commenting on selection of Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) members
In order to maintain our autonomy and preserve the capacity for independent reflection, we will not comment on the applicants to the Integral System of Truth, Justice, Reparation and Non-Repetition.
Read MoreAn inclusive Special Jurisdiction for Peace
It is unacceptable to undermine the legitimacy of the Special Jurisdiction for Peace, generating unjustified doubts about an alleged ideological bias of the Election Committee and the ongoing selection process.
Read MoreThe anti-corrosive of peace
The lack of an effective and legitimate State, which earns the obedience of the people, has led Colombia to a vicious cycle of violence-peace-violence since the nineteenth century, with 26 amnesty processes and 63 pardons in total.
Read MoreThe assets of the FARC: a litmus test for the ‘fast-track’
Opposition groups that disagree with the peace process pledged to “lash out” in the new legislature against Santos-issued fast-track decrees. The next debate will center around the inventory of FARC assets.
Read MorePrison is not the only sanction in transitional justice mechanisms
César Rodríguez argued that the Comprehensive System of Truth, Justice, Reparation and Guarantees of Non-Repetition is in harmony with the Constitution. Regarding different penalties, he affirmed that international law discusses effective sanctions, not jail.
Read MorePrison is not the only sanction in transitional justice mechanisms
César Rodríguez defended that the Comprehensive System of Truth, Justice, Reparation and Guarantees of Non-Repetition is in line with the Constitution. Regarding penalties, he affirmed that international law discusses effective sanctions, not imprisonment.
Read MoreThe 1991 Constitution is open to peace and the profound transformations that it will require
What is the nature, scope and type of control that the Constitutional Court must exercise over the Legislative Acts issued to implement the Final Peace Agreement? This is an intervention by Rodrigo Uprimny before the High Court.
Read MoreThe Constitution of 1991 is open to peace and the profound changes it requires
What is the nature, scope and type of control that the Constitutional Court must exercise over the Legislative Acts issued to implement the Final Peace Agreement? Intervention by Rodrigo Uprimny before the High Court.
Read MoreDear Congress members, too much noise around the Special Jurisdiction for Peace!
The proposals asking to remove the application of the Special Jurisdiction for Peace to military and civilians ignore the complex dynamics of the armed conflict.
Read MoreHow is the implementation of the Agreement on Victims going?
Despite the setbacks, the Transitional Justice System is already working. However, the sustainability of the process will depend on the decisions of the Constitutional Court and the proper processing of amnesties.
Read MoreThe Salamanca frog
Instead of contemplating the greatness of disarmament, which opens the door to peace, many critics have stubbornly sought out the “frog” and say that the process was all a farce. Even if it received UN verification.
Read MoreDisarmament
The FARC’s transition from war to life without arms is ever closer. A few days ago, the FARC’s walk to the rural zones ended, and with it, the concentration of almost 7,000 people seeking to leave the war.
Read MorePeace without indigenous or Afro-Colombian people
Through the fast-track in Congress, the implementation of the peace agreement is leaving out ethnic peoples. Long before there was a table in Havana, the peace labs were the territories of the Nasa in Cauca, the Wiwa’s Sierra or the black communities of the Pacific, who refused to take arms or left in the middle of guerrilla and paramilitary violence and state stigmatization.
Read MorePress Release for the General Public and the Dialogue Table in La Habana
The signatory organizations address this statement to the general public and the Dialogue Table in La Habana, in order to present legal and political conciliatory points on certain issues of the Peace Agreement signed by the Colombian Government and the FARC EP on September 26th, 2016.
Dejusticia’s Intervention in Constitutional Court Public Hearing
The public vote of the peace accord to achieve a constitution in peace and a constitutional peace.
Read MoreIs a Plebiscite or a National Constituent Assembly the Right, Viable, and Convenient Mechanism to Put the Peace Agreement to a Popular Vote?
Rodrigo Uprimny’s intervention in the National Forum “End of the Conflict” and “Popular Vote Mechanisms, Implementation, and Verification”.
Read MoreWhat Happens in Colombia Affects What Happens in Havana?
Dejusticia and the Konrad Adenaur Foundation held a coffee and debate that began with that question. Here are the results.
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 More2nd Women and Transitional Justice Meeting
From the 27th to the 28th of August Women’s and Victims’ Organizations will discuss the Truth Commision’s challenges and proposals.
Read MoreJustice to Achieve Peace: Heinous Crimes, the Right to Negotiated Peace and Justice
This book seeks to contribute to the difficult debate on how to reconcile the imperatives of justice and the rights of the victims, with the internal dynamics of a peace negotiation.
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