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Auto 009 of 2015

The first two sections of this judgement served as an update on the status of sexual violence in the country since the 2008 Auto 092. The Court examined information on the ongoing sexual violence against women, including sexual slavery, and forced sex work being imposed on women, girls, adolescents and women with disabilities by armed actors, and surveyed the ongoing barriers to accessing justice and aid for displaced women.

The Observatory for Marine and Coastal Governance - Center for Social and Environmental Studies,

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Colombia

Working Group(s) / Area(s) of Work:

Environment & ESCR

Strategic Litigation

Collective letter to the President of Colombia – Stop the violence against human rights defenders

In a little more than a year, ESCR-Net has sent a second collective letter to the President of Colombia, Iván Duque Márquez, regarding new threats allegedly from the...

ESCR Net condemns violence against demonstrators in Colombia and calls on the State to respect human rights.

ESCR-Net condemns violence against demonstrators in Colombia and calls on the State to respect human rights.

On April 28, 2021, various sectors of Colombian society took to the streets to protest proposed tax increases on basic needs, fuel and public services. These...

Dec

2020

Webinar: Building a Feminist Future: Towards a feminist and human-rights-based global social pact on care

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Opinion: Thinking about the pandemic from a feminist economy

From its origins, feminist economics has highlighted the need to advance in a broader conception of the economy and the economic system, which, in addition to the productive sphere, takes into account the reproductive sphere. In particular, this current points out the importance of unpaid care work for the development of people, but goes a step further by explaining how the provision of care is actually a social need, as it allows the reproduction of the working class, which in turn will be responsible for creating economic values in the reproductive sphere (that is, for reproducing the economic system).

Opinion: The Need to Ensure Corporate Accountability Amidst the Pandemic

* Following discussions within ESCR-Net’s membership on climate and environmental justice and human rights in relation to the COVID-19 crisis, multiple members co-authored short articles in this context, including the following piece which was originally published on...

Dejusticia

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.