Dejusticia
The Center for Law, Justice and Society | |
Formation | 2005 |
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Location | |
Coordinates | 4°37′33″N 74°04′32″W / 4.62588°N 74.07563°W |
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Award(s) | Tang Prize, Best Leaders Award Colombia |
Website | dejusticia |
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][13]
Notable Cases
In 2007 Dejusticia supported the first collective titling of black communities in the Colombian Caribbean, the Rosario Islands.[14]
- ^ "Catálogo de obras de Dejusticia - Biblioteca Virtual del Banco de la República (Colombia)" (in Spanish). Miguel de Cervantes Virtual Library.
- ^ "Summer Fellowship in Human Rights - Dejusticia". Faculty of Law, University of Oxford. 28 February 2019.
- ^ "Dejusticia | Privacy International". Privacy International.
- ^ Studios, Sz. "Dejusticia | INCLO | International Network of Civil Liberties Organizations". International Network of Civil Liberties Organizations.
- ^ "Dejusticia". Devex.
- ^ "Tang Prize | Laureates | Dejusticia: The Center for Law, Justice and Society". www.tang-prize.org.
- ^ "Corte Constitucional de Ecuador reconoció matrimonio igualitario". Colombia Diversa.
- ^ "¿Justicia transicional sin transición?" (PDF). Jep.gov.co.
- ^ "Texas Law Review" (PDF). texashistory.unt.edu.
- ^ Jaramillo Pérez, Juan Fernando; García Villegas, Mauricio; Uorimny Yepes, Rodrigo; Rodríguez Villabona, Andrés Abel (2016). "Constitución, democracia y derechos". Catholic University of Portugal.
- ^ Espectador, El (5 September 2021). "ELESPECTADOR.COM". ELESPECTADOR.COM (in Spanish).
- ^ "Seminario Internacional Profesión Jurídica, Cultura Jurídica y Crisis de la Justicia". Programa Estado de Derecho América Latina (in Spanish). 17 May 2018.
- ^ Studios, Sz. "Dejusticia | INCLO | International Network of Civil Liberties Organizations". International Network of Civil Liberties Organizations.
- ^ "Barú y comunidades negras: una historia al borde de la extinción | Blogs". www.eluniversal.com.co.