The ICJ Before the Constitutional Court of Colombia
In oral submissions to the Constitutional Court of Colombia, the ICJ today deplored “the National Security Law as a coup d’état against the rule of law”.
The ICJ urges the Court to strike down the law as incompatible with both international human rights law and the Colombian Constitution.
Special Rapporteur on the right to education, E/CN.4/2001/52, January 11, 2001
75. Domestic courts have started to recognize that children themselves have standing to vindicate their right to education and rights in education. The Supreme Court of Colombia examined a complaint by two boys who had been prevented from continuing their education by...
Los responsables de desapariciones forzadas deben ser juzgados por la justicia civil
Comunicado de prensa conjunto de Amnistía Internacional, la Comisión Internacional de Juristas y la Federación Latinoamericana de Asociaciones de Familiares de Detenidos Desaparecidos.
Sentencia C-507/99, Constitutional Court of Colombia (14 July 1999)
Procedural Posture Constitutional challenge to the disciplinary regulations of the Colombian Army. Issue Whether it was lawful to discipline soldiers on active duty on the grounds that they lived in concubinage or adultery, associated with “anti-social” elements such...Recent News
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