Dejusticia Explained

Dejusticia
Full Name:The Center for Law, Justice and Society
Formation:2005
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Location City:Bogotá, Colombia
Location Country:South America
Coordinates:4.6259°N -74.0756°W
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Key People:
  • Diana Esther Guzmán Rodríguez (CEO)
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Awards:Tang Prize, Best Leaders Award Colombia

Dejusticia (also known as The Center for Law, Justice and Society) is a non-profit legal organization established in 2005 that promotes human rights and the social rule of law in Colombia, Latin America and other regions of the Global South.[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

The organization has been laurated, together with BELA and Legal Agenda, with the Tang Prize in Rule of Law in 2020.[6] [7]

History

Dejusticia was founded in 2005 in Bogotá, Colombia by Colombian writer and columnist Mauricio García Villegas, Colombian lawyer and professor Helena Alviar García, Colombian professor and jurist Rodrigo Uprimny, the university professor César Rodríguez Garavito, the Colombian lawyer and professor Catalina Botero and the academics Juan Fernando Jaramillo, Danilo Rojas and Diego E. López Medina. The organization consolidated its Editorial Dejusticia in 2009 and in 2016 its Litigation area under the General Management of Rodrigo uprimny.[8] [9] [10]

The organization creates and provides academic papers and reports worldwide against in-justice, in-equality, Human Rights and other various social issues. And also helped marginalized communities through litigation efforts.[11]

Dejusticia also organizes international seminars and produces working papers to promote discussions over ideas that support Human rights, Rule of Law, Legal Culture and Justice Crisis.[12] [4]

Notable Cases

In 2007 Dejusticia supported the first collective titling of black communities in the Colombian Caribbean, the Rosario Islands.[13]

At the end of 2012, Dejusticia filed a lawsuit for the election of the Ministers of Housing, Interior and Transportation because with their elections, former President Juan Manuel Santos breached Law 581 of 2000, which requires that at least 30% of the Ministries be headed by women.[14]

On January 30, 2013, Dejusticia study center filed a lawsuit that focused on the decision that allowed Attorney Alejandro Ordóñez to remain in office. Three years later, that demand was answered by the Council of State, which removed the attorney Alejandro Ordóñez from the Office of the Inspector General of Colombia.

In 2016, in terms of environmental democracy, Dejusticia collaborated to advance a relevant precedent regarding environmental referendum, particularly in the Pijao case. The Pijao community filed a lawsuit that resulted in a historic ruling that gave communities a voice to exercise their rights in order to protect the environment and regulate land uses in their territories. An example of balance of powers within the extractivist sector of Colombia.[15]

Awards and honors

Notable publications

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Catálogo de obras de Dejusticia - Biblioteca Virtual del Banco de la República (Colombia) . . es.
  2. Web site: Summer Fellowship in Human Rights - Dejusticia . . en . 28 February 2019.
  3. Web site: Dejusticia Privacy International . Privacy International.
  4. Web site: Studios . Sz . Dejusticia INCLO International Network of Civil Liberties Organizations . . en.
  5. Web site: Dejusticia . Devex.
  6. Web site: Tang Prize Laureates Dejusticia: The Center for Law, Justice and Society . www.tang-prize.org . en.
  7. Web site: Corte Constitucional de Ecuador reconoció matrimonio igualitario . Colombia Diversa.
  8. Web site: ¿Justicia transicional sin transición? . Jep.gov.co.
  9. Web site: Texas Law Review . texashistory.unt.edu.
  10. Web site: Jaramillo Pérez . Juan Fernando . García Villegas . Mauricio . Uorimny Yepes . Rodrigo . Rodríguez Villabona . Andrés Abel . Constitución, democracia y derechos . . 2016.
  11. Web site: Espectador . El . ELESPECTADOR.COM . ELESPECTADOR.COM . spanish . 5 September 2021.
  12. Web site: Seminario Internacional Profesión Jurídica, Cultura Jurídica y Crisis de la Justicia . Programa Estado de Derecho América Latina . es . 17 May 2018.
  13. Web site: Barú y comunidades negras: una historia al borde de la extinción Blogs . www.eluniversal.com.co.
  14. Web site: Radio . Caracol . Jalón de orejas al Gobierno por incumplimiento de la Ley de Cuotas . Caracol Radio . es . 18 July 2013.
  15. Web site: Coadyudancia a favor de la consulta popular en Pijao . Dejusticia . es-ES.
  16. Web site: Colombia premió a sus mejores líderes . Semana.com Últimas Noticias de Colombia y el Mundo . spanish . 14 October 2017.
  17. Web site: Mayorías sin Democracia. Desequilibrio de poderes y Estado de derecho en Colombia, 2002-2009 comprar en libreriasiglo.com . libreriasiglo.com.
  18. Book: Justicia transicional sin transición?: verdad, justicia y reparación para Colombia . 2006 . Centro de Estudios de Derecho, Justicia y Sociedad . 9789583393570 . es.
  19. Web site: Villegas . Mauricio García . Jueces sin Estado: La justicia colombiana en zonas de conflicto armado . Amazon . 29 October 2008.
  20. Web site: Garavito . César Rodríguez . Franco . Diana Rodríguez . Cortes y cambio social: Cómo la Corte Constitucional transformó el desplazamiento forzado en Colombia . Dejusticia- Centro de estudios de derecho, justicia y sociedad . 2010.
  21. Web site: La Adicción punitiva. La desproporción de leyes de drogas en América Latina comprar en libreriasiglo.com . libreriasiglo.com.
  22. Villegas . Mauricio García . Rebolledo . Javier Revelo . LA CONSTRUCCIÓN DEL ESTADO LOCAL EN COLOMBIA . Análisis Político . 68–95 . es . 10.15446/anpol.v31n92.71098 . 1 January 2018. 31 . 92 .
  23. Web site: González . Nina Esmeralda; Martínez Osorio Chaparro . Negociando desde los márgenes: la participación política de las mujeres en los procesos de paz en Colombia (1982-2016) . Bibliotecadigitaldebogota.gov.co . es.
  24. Web site: Sistema de justicia territorial para la paz . babel.banrepcultural.org . en.
  25. Web site: Hernández . Sergio Raúl; Cruz Olivera Chaparro . Coca, instituciones y desarrollo: Los retos de los municipios productores en el posacuerdo . www.bibliotecadigitaldebogota.gov.co . es.
  26. Web site: Voces desde el cocal: mujeres que construyen territorio . babel.banrepcultural.org . en.
  27. Web site: Ball . Patrick . Garavito . César Rodríguez . Ángel . Valentina Rozo . Asesinatos de líderes sociales en Colombia en 2016–2017: una estimación del universo . Human Rights Data Analysis Group . 2018.
  28. Web site: La profesión jurídica en Colombia: Falta de reglas y exceso de mercado . babel.banrepcultural.org . en.

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