Photo from the website: desaparicionforzada.com Twenty-nine years after the forced disappearance of Pedro Julio Movilla Galacio in Bogotá, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights officially opens on February 15, 2022 in San José, Costa Rica, the hearing of the case of Pedro Julio Movilla Galacio...
The National Contact Points from Switzerland, Australia, and the United Kingdom admitted the complains that several Colombian and international organizations filed against the multinational companies Glencore, Angloamerican, and BHP, the owners of the company Carbones del Cerrejón, which for two...
The Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice ratified in second instance the conviction against Julio César Ardila, former mayor of Barrancabermeja, as co-perpetrator of the the crimes of aggravated homicide and conspiracy to commit a criminal offense in the case of the murder of...
The grievances of the Colombian State against the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, IACHR Court, do not stop. The presidents of the House, Jennifer Kristin Arias Falla, and the Senate, Juan Diego Gómez, sent a letter to the High Court on December 31, 2021, protesting against the follow-up...
Originally published in Confidencial Colombia Three cases litigated by the Lawyers’ Collective José Alvear Restrepo, “CAJAR”, before the Inter-American Human Rights System will be considered by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) in the first half of 2022. These cases deal with...
In less than a month, the Government-initiated citizen security bill was approved. Filed in the Senate on November 22 and in the House the following day, it was debated jointly by the first commissions of the Senate and the House, thanks to the government’s message of emergency, which called...
By Prensa Cajar | January 12th, 2022 | Analysis and opinion, Editorial, Editorial Cajar, Overcoming the armed conflict and building peace Originally published in Confidencial Colombia The judgment of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in the Gustavo Petro Urrego vs Colombia case, from July...
The Rapporteurship for the clarification of the events of September 9, 10 and 11, 2020 in the city of Bogotá was established as an ad hoc mechanism to promote the State’s response to the serious human rights violations that occurred in the context of social protest. It responds to the...
Originally published in Confidencial Colombia Between April 28 and July 31, 2021, in the framework of the protests for the National Strike, the country experienced days of extreme violence in the streets, resulting in disproportionate use of force, sexual and gender violence, acts of...
Originally published in Confidencial Colombia. Three months before the 2022 legislative elections and less than six months before the presidential elections, there is a deepening concern that the necessary guarantees in a democracy for the full participation of opposition candidates do not exist....
The Specialized Prosecutor’s Office for Human Rights Violations declared the homicide of trade unionist Doris Nuñez Lozano and the attack against trade union leader Omar García Angulo, committed on August 16, 2001 in Fusagasugá, as crimes against humanity. For the Prosecutor’s...
The human rights organizations and victims of Extrajudicial Executions wrongly called “False Positives” grouped in the Strategic Lithium Space – ELE reject the participation of Mr. MARIO MONTOYA URIBE in the commemoration ceremony held last Sunday, November 28 at the facilities...