Colombie

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Tutela action filed by Orlando José Morales Ramos against Drummond Ltd.

Colombia's Constitutional Court reviewed a tutela action case (action seeking protection of constitutional rights) which looked into whether the mining operations of the company Drummond had violated the rights to life, to a healthy environment, to privacy and to health of a citizen and his family living near the Pribbenow open-pit mine, located in La Loma, municipality of El Paso, department of Cesar, in the North of Colombia. Based in the United States, Drummond develops and processes coal in both the US and Colombia.

Decision T-406/10. Writ for the protection of constitutional rights filed by Eduardo Bernal Navia v. Social Security Agency (ISS). File T-2560709

Ninety-year-old Eduardo Navia brought this tutela action seeking to receive disability payments from the State. He had undergone heart surgery in May 1998 and January 2008, with both surgeries limiting his ability to work. Relying on a certification of disability issued by the Social Security Agency (ISS) Section of Bolivar on September 14, 2007, he applied for disability benefits to the ISS on October 5, 2007. The ISS determined his date of disability to be March 6, 2007, but denied his application claiming that he had failed to comply with the requirements of Art.

Acción de tutela instaurada por Eduardo Bernal Navia contra Instituto de Seguros Sociales (en adelante ISS)

Eduardo Navia, de noventa años de edad, presentó la acción de tutela buscando que el Estado le otorgue una pensión por invalidez. Como consecuencia de procedimientos quirúrgicos cardíacos a los que había sido sometido en mayo de 1998 y enero de 2008, tenía limitada su capacidad para trabajar. Basándose en un certificado de invalidez expedido por el Instituto de Seguridad Social (ISS) Seccional Bolívar el 14 de septiembre de 2007, solicitó ante el ISS la pensión por invalidez el 5 de octubre de 2007.

T-291/09

Las actividades de reciclaje en Colombia han sido tradicionalmente realizadas por sectores de la sociedad extremadamente pobres y marginados, que recuperan residuos inorgánicos s de los rellenos o en las calles para transportarlo y venderlos como material reciclable, a bodegas informales e intermediarias de la industrian nacional o multinacional, por modestas sumas. Sin embargo, durante la década pasada el reciclaje se convirtió en una actividad más lucrativa, y las compañías de recolección de res

C-741/03

En 2002/2003, mientras la ciudad de Bogotá iniciaba el proceso de privatización de sus servicios de recolección de residuos, las asociaciones de recicladores de Bogotá intentaron participar en un proceso de licitación para competir por un contrato con la ciudad de recolección y transporte de residuos.

T-724/03

En Bogotá, los materiales reciclables han sido tradicionalmente recolectados y vendidos por individuos o familias trabajando por cuenta propia o en cooperativas. Los recicladores están entre los miembros más pobres y marginados de la sociedad.

Constitutional Ruling C-741/03

In 2002/2003, as the city of Bogota began the process of privatizing its waste collection services, recycling organizations in Bogota attempted to participate in a bidding process to compete for a waste collection and transportation contracts with the city. The recyclers were de jure precluded from competing for these contracts in big cities because they were not equity-owned, “share held corporations” as required by the law for public procurement, but rather, non-profit cooperatives of informal working poor.

Constitutional Human Rights Ruling T-724/03

In Bogota, recyclable materials have traditionally been collected and sold by individuals and families organized into recycling associations. Recyclers are among the poorest, most marginalized members of society.

Colombia Constitutional Court T-291/09

Recycling activities in Colombia have traditionally been carried out by extremely poor and marginalized sectors of society, who collect materials from landfills or inorganic waste from the streets to transport and sell them as recyclable material to intermediary informal warehouses of the national and multinational industry from refuse deposited on the street and sell it to warehouses for modest sums.

Decision T-841

The plaintiff filed an injunction aimed at guaranteeing the right of a 12 year-old girl to her mental health, among other rights. The girl became pregnant in early 2011 and started presenting symptoms of anxiety and depression, as diagnosed by different physicians, who recommended the interruption of her pregnancy.