Posts Tagged ‘Víctimas’
Peasant rights: the recognition of an excluded actor
The struggle of the Colombian peasantry is relevant to international debates, both because of the injustices and violence it has faced and because of the progress it has made in recent years in defending its rights.
Read MoreParticipation in Transitional Justice Measures: A Comparative Study
The study analyzes participatory scenarios involving not only victims but also civil society in a broader sense, as the latter has also been very important for the
promotion, adoption, and implementation of transitional justice measures.
Warnings about rural tourism in the post-conflict
If the rural tourism policies implemented in victimized communities are not accompanied by public policies, we will soon see new forms of dispossession, exile, and land ownership changes in the areas mentioned in the official tourism speech.
Read MoreFalsehoods about our recent book
Recently, Dejusticia received strong criticism for the publication of our Increasing Accountability report. In this column, I respond and discuss the complexities of the role of businesses during the armed conflict.
Read MoreThe Special Jurisdiction for Peace cannot forget crimes against children
Hundreds of children and adolescents were victims of atrocious crimes during the armed conflict. In this context, the JEP faces the challenge to incorporate a special focus on children in the processes and decisions that it adopts.
Read MoreBojayá changed forever the way to see the pain of victims
Due to its historical importance, some regional media came to photographically record the exhumation process of the corpses. The community saw this kind of action as a violation to their right to live a dignified mourning, which they were not able to have when the massacre first happened.
Read MoreCiro and us
Ciro Galindo, protagonist of the documentary ‘Ciro y yo’, came to remind me where I come from, so I take his story personally. Ultimately, we are children of the same Colombia.
Read MoreWill they remain missing?
Despite the nobility and importance of its function, almost nobody knows or speaks about the Unit for the Search of Missing Persons, while every day we discuss the Special Jurisdiction for Peace.
Read MoreAfro and indigenous peoples should be consulted about truth-seeking processes
The Constitutional Court is currently reviewing the decree that creates the Truth Commission for the implementation of the Peace Agreement. Dejusticia presented an intervention supporting the constitutionality of the decree, with the condition that the participation of various social sectors in future steps is guaranteed.
Read MoreDisappeared
Among the infamies of our internal conflict, one of the greatest, due to it being the most hidden, is the forced disappearance of thousands of people: the students and activists evaporated at the hands of state intelligence bodies under the Security Statute 35 years ago, the “false positives” of the army a few years ago, the social and rural leaders removed by the paramilitaries in the nineties, the soldiers kidnapped by the FARC that never reappeared. All united by uncertain stops and the suffering of families that continue to search for them.
Read MoreThe False Beliefs about False Victims
The processes of land restitution are complex and what seems like a false complaint could actually be a typical case of displacement included in the Victims Law.
Read MoreSafeguarding the Restitution Process
Both claimants and bureaucrats are at risk. Thus policy makers cannot take the position that they ought to be more “austere” in instituting protection measures.
Read MoreAccess to Justice: Women, Armed Conflict, and Justice
This document examines the situation of female victims of human rights violations due to the Colombian armed conflict and their ability to effectively access justice.
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 Displaced Persons’ “Tutela” Writ
While eveyone discusses the “tutela” writs of Mayor Petro’s case, the 10th anniversary of perhaps the most important tutela decision of the Colombian Constitutional Court has been forgotten: the T-025 of 2004. Since then, then, this decisions has been protecting the rights of five million colombians that are victims of forced displacement.
Read MoreTransitional Justicie and the Peace Process in Colombia
This article studies the measures that society and the Colombian government should implement to democratically overcome the armed conflict. These measures are both numerous and complex.
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 MoreKirchner’s “nac&pop” project
Cristina Kirchner’s government illustrates the risks that populism has for democracy without offering any of its advantage in exchange.
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 MoreMore Salt Rubbed in the Wounds of the Victims of the Palace of Justice
In the Palace of Justice hearing, the government representatives gave with one hand what they took with the other.
Read MoreInjustices and Wars
Injustices cause wars but wars, in turn, also cause injustices. In Colombia, for example, injustice derives from the high inequality in agrarian land ownership, which was used by the guerrillas as a justification for their armed uprising.
Read MoreThe Government’s Legal Arguments in the Palace of Justice Case Re-victimizes the Victims
The government’s legal defense in the Palace of Justice case took an important turn toward decency when the lawyer Nieto Loaiza was taken off the case.
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 MoreGoodbye river: The Dispute over Land, Water and the Rights of the Indigenous living near the Urrá dam
This books tell the story of the dam of Urrá through the central themes of violence and the dispute for land and the natural resources in Colombia.
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 MoreCitizen intervention in the tutela against the Inspector General for failure to protect an individual in great danger
The intervention relates to a motion for legal protection in which a victim of a serious violation of his human rights, in spite of being in an unusual and extreme security risk, received no protection from existing security programs. Dejusticia requests the Constitutional Court to take the necessary steps in order to crease the violation of the plaintiff’s fundamental rights and to consider that this case is one of many that exist today in the country, where victims and witnesses of the conflict did not receive effective, adequate, and specific protection, and, therefore, declare that there is an unconstitutional state of affairs. If this were the case, the Court should issue the necessary orders for the different institutions that are responsible of protection programs to appropriate them to the minimum of rationality imposed by the Court and to adapt them to the conditions of the Colombian context.
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 MoreAmicus Curiae for the case of sexual violence against women in Peru
The present Amicus Curiae, involves d five cases of sexual violence against women in the Peruvian armed conflict and argues that according to Peruvian and international law, the State must prosecute such acts of sexual violence
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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