Posts Tagged ‘Reparación’
Settling the Historic Debt for Slavery
The discussion about reparations and the historical debt owed to people of African descent is an interesting and sensible discussion. Although many do not believe it, it is important to heal scars.
Read MoreExpert Opinion about Administrative Reparations before the Inter-American Human Rights Court
Camilo Sánchez, transitional justice research coordinator, presented an expert opinion about the administrative reparations program and the compliance of the Land Restitution and Victims’ Law to international standards before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, within the framework of the case “Yarce and others v. Colombia.”
Read MoreShould They Put Up with It?
Should the neighbors of a police station, who suffer damage to their property or their person from guerrilla attacks directed against the police station, tough it out and assume the cost of these injuries on their own? Or, should the state compensate them so they can rebuild their lives?
Read MoreAccess to justice for women victims of sexual violence
Fifth follow-up report on Decision 092 of the Constitutional Court.
Read MoreIntervention in challenge to article 9 of the Victims’ Law
Dejusticia intervened in a challenge to article 9 of the Victims’ Law which provided that reparations in judicial proceedings must be equal to those in administrative proceedings.
Read MoreIntervention regarding the scope of the expression “due to the armed conflict” of the Victim’s Law
Dejusticia supported claim of unconstitutionality, arguing that the term “due to the armed conflict” of the Victim’s Law be understood in its broadest sense.
Read MoreIntervention on the constitutionality of the victims law
The intervention refers to three aspects of the victims law. The first one challenges establishing is January 1, 1985 as the date from which victims would be recognized for purposes of reparations. The second is the exclusion of victims of common crimes. Finally, we argue that the exclusion of victims from illegal armed groups is unconstitutional.
Read MoreEthno-Reparations: Ethnic Collective Justice and Reparations for Afro and Indigenous Communities in Colombia
This text begins by explaining the concept of “collective ethnic justice” and then offers practical guidance on how it can be achieved in practice by describing relevant principles and criteria found in Colombian and international law.
Read MoreIn Search of a Transformative and Participatory Concept of Reparations in the Context of Transitional Justice
This article aims to help overcome some of the limitations of the prevailing transitional justice approach.
Read Moreamicus brief regarding a tutela on the issue of reparation to victims of forced displacement.
Dejusticia presented an amicus brief regarding the scope and routes of access to the right of reparation, as well as the scope of Colombian legislation on forced displacement and reparation, among others.
Read MoreConstitutional claim for victims of forced disappearance to be recognized as victims of political violence to access humanitarian aid.
This claim, submitted jointly by the Nydia Erika Bautista Foundation and Dejusticia, aims to correct this legislative omission so that victims of forced disappearance are recognized as victims of political violence and so that they have access to humanitarian aid without having to undertake the process of obtaining a presumption of death declaration.
Read MoreAmicus curiae in tutela for protection of the right to mental health of victims of forced displacement
Dejusticia supports the tutela to ensure the right to health of four women who have not received comprehensive care for the serious mental and emotional disorders they suffer following their forced displacement due to violence of the armed conflict
Read MoreIntervention on the law of freedom of slaves
Dejusticia, member of Racial Discrimination Watch, intervened in the challenge to Law 21 of 1851 (Freedom of slaves), arguing that the Court should declare the case admissible and guarantee integral and collective reparation for the Afro-Colombian population who suffered the crime of slavery.
Read MoreReparations in Colombia: Dilemmas in a Context of Conflict, Poverty and Exclusion
This publication contributes answers to the challenges based on the need to repair grave violations committed in a context of war, poverty and exclusion.
Read MoreVictims for the Search for Truth and Reparation in Colombia
This book is a summary of diverse conferences that took place at the “Truth and Repair in Colombia: from the victims’ perspective” seminar revolved around the same issue: a search for solutions for repair and reconciliation in Colombia.
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