International Commission of Jurists

Sentencia SU 337/99, Constitutional Court of Colombia (12 May 1999)

May 12, 1999

Procedural Posture Action brought against the Colombian Institute of Family Welfare and the Office of the Public Advocate (Defensor del Pueblo de la Seccional del Departamento XX) by the plaintiff mother on behalf of her 8 year-old intersex child, NN. Neither...

Sentencia C-481/98, Constitutional Court of Colombia (9 September 1998)

Sep 9, 1998

Procedural Posture Germán Humberto Rincón Perfetti filed a petition for judicial review of Article 46 of Decree 2277 of 1979 (Standards for the Exercise of the Teaching Profession). The Constitutional Court granted the petition and decided the issue after holding a...

Concluding Observations, CCPR/C/79/Add.76, 1 April 1997: Colombia

Apr 1, 1997

16. The Committee also deplores the fact that so-called “social-cleansing” operations, targeting street children, homosexuals, prostitutes and petty delinquents, continue to be carried out and that appropriate and effective action has not yet been taken to...

Joint report of the Special Rapporteur on the question of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment and the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, E/CN.4/1995/111, 16 January 1995: Colombia

Jan 16, 1995

C. “Social cleansing” 49. In addition to criminals, persons from other sectors of the population whose presence was considered undesirable became the targets of such killings: prostitutes, homosexuals, beggars, drug consumers and street children. The...
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