Dejusticia

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Dejusticia
The Center for Law, Justice and Society
Formation2005
Location
Coordinates 4°37′33″N74°04′32″W / 4.62588°N 74.07563°W / 4.62588; -74.07563 Coordinates: 4°37′33″N74°04′32″W / 4.62588°N 74.07563°W / 4.62588; -74.07563
Key people
  • Diana Esther Guzmán Rodríguez (CEO)
Award(s) Tang Prize, Best Leaders Award Colombia
Website dejusticia.org

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]

Contents

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.[ citation needed ]

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

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References

  1. ↑ "Catálogo de obras de Dejusticia - Biblioteca Virtual del Banco de la República (Colombia)" (in Spanish). Miguel de Cervantes Virtual Library.
  2. ↑ "Summer Fellowship in Human Rights - Dejusticia". Faculty of Law, University of Oxford. 28 February 2019.
  3. ↑ "Dejusticia | Privacy International". Privacy International.
  4. 1 2 Studios, Sz. "Dejusticia | INCLO | International Network of Civil Liberties Organizations". International Network of Civil Liberties Organizations.
  5. ↑ "Dejusticia". Devex.
  6. 1 2 "Tang Prize | Laureates | Dejusticia: The Center for Law, Justice and Society". www.tang-prize.org.
  7. ↑ "Corte Constitucional de Ecuador reconoció matrimonio igualitario". Colombia Diversa.
  8. ↑ "¿Justicia transicional sin transición?" (PDF). Jep.gov.co.
  9. ↑ "Texas Law Review" (PDF). texashistory.unt.edu.
  10. ↑ Jaramillo Pérez, Juan Fernando; García Villegas, Mauricio; Uorimny Yepes, Rodrigo; Rodríguez Villabona, Andrés Abel (2016). "Constitución, democracia y derechos". Catholic University of Portugal.
  11. ↑ Espectador, El (5 September 2021). "ELESPECTADOR.COM". ELESPECTADOR.COM (in Spanish).
  12. ↑ "Seminario Internacional Profesión Jurídica, Cultura Jurídica y Crisis de la Justicia". Programa Estado de Derecho América Latina (in Spanish). 17 May 2018.
  13. ↑ "Barú y comunidades negras: una historia al borde de la extinción | Blogs". www.eluniversal.com.co.
  14. ↑ Radio, Caracol (18 July 2013). "Jalón de orejas al Gobierno por incumplimiento de la Ley de Cuotas". Caracol Radio (in Spanish).
  15. ↑ "Coadyudancia a favor de la consulta popular en Pijao". Dejusticia (in European Spanish).
  16. ↑ "Colombia premió a sus mejores líderes". Semana.com Últimas Noticias de Colombia y el Mundo (in Spanish). 14 October 2017.
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