Originally published in Confidencial Colombia President Iván Duque had resisted the visit of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, IACHR, requested in light of the massive protests in the country, from the beginning, taking a month to approve its arrival in the country. Its position of...
Originally published in Confidencial Colombia. Foreign Minister and Vice President Martha Lucía Ramírez generated great confusion in Washinton, regarding the request of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, IACHR, to carry out a working visit to Colombia, to monitor the crisis in the...
The New Electoral Code (Draft Statutory Law 409 of 2020 of the House and 234 of 2020 of the Senate) implemented in the Colombian norm an important part of the judgment of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, IACHR Court, of July 8, 2020. The Court protected the political rights of the former...
The letters were sent to the Inter-American rapporteur on freedom of expression, the Inter-American rapporteur on the Rights of Human Rights Defenders and Justice Operators, as well as to the UN Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers, the UN Special Rapporteur on the...
Adoption of a UN resolution on excessive use of force and other human rights violations by law enforcement officers against Africans and of people of African descent: now is the time for action to fight systemic racism in the USA and globally FIDH and its undersigned member organisations share the...
The request warns that given the new scientific evidence on the characterization of the risks of the pandemic, it is especially urgent —in application of the precautionary principle— to continue the suspension of the mining pits adjacent to the Provincial community. The Colombian State is obliged...
The statement of the Council of State on its decision in the Tutela filed by the mayor of Gustavo Petro wants to confuse the Public Opinion and the Inter-American Commission with mechanisms that last months and years. The urgent precautionary measure contemplated by the Colombian administrative...