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Al-Haq Statement on the Health Conditions in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and Declaration of a State of Emergency

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Decision T-406/92. Writ for the protection of constitutional rights filed by José Manuel Rodríguez Rangel v. Enrique Chartuny González, manager of the Public Works of Cartagena

The claimant filed a tutela action against the Public Works of Cartagena alleging that they put into operation an uncompleted sewer system, producing overflowing black waters and unsanitary conditions in two neighborhoods. The complaint alleged a violation of Article 88 of the Colombian constitution protecting the right to public health and asked for injunctive relief to prevent irreparable harm, as established under Article 5 of the Decree 2591.

Judgment SU-225/98

This tutela case concerned the requirement that the state provide health services to a group of children living in an impoverished area of Bogotá. Four hundred and eighteen families brought this action against the Ministry of Health and the District Secretary of Health seeking free vaccines against two strains of bacterial meningitis. The plaintiffs argued their case under Article 44 of the Colombian Constitution, which guarantees certain freedoms and protections to children, and under various treaties to which Colombia subscribed.

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Serie de conversaciones digitales sobre coronavirus y desigualdad

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Asociación Civil por la Igualdad y la Justicia, Centro de Estudios de Derecho, Justicia y Sociedad (Dejusticia), Centro de Estudios Legales y Sociales (CELS); Fundar (Centro de Análisis e Investigación); Instituto de Estudos Socioeconômicos (INESC);

A regional civil society Initiative for Human Rights in Fiscal Policy in Latin America calls on States to undertake broad fiscal redistribution, and on multilateral institutions to free up fiscal space, in order to avoid dire human rights consequences.

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Dismantling the myths around restrictive fiscal policies in Latin America

In December 2019, The Center for Economic and Social Rights (CESR) published a briefing entitled “Dismantling the Dogmas of Austerity and Fiscal Injustice in Latin America,” refuting 10 commonly held...

Judgment No. T-426/92

Petitioner, 69-year old Hernando de Jesus Blanco Angarita, filed a tutela action before the Constitutional Court after the First Civil Municipal Court of Bogota found that the National Social Security Fund had not violated his constitutional rights by delaying the transfer of his deceased wife’s pension. The Constitutional Court reversed the First Civil Municipal Court and held that there had been a violation of rights recognized both in the Colombian Constitution and international law.