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Sentencia C-507/99, Constitutional Court of Colombia (14 July 1999)

Jul 14, 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...

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...

Report of the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, E/CN.4/1999/39, 6 January 1999

Jan 6, 1999

E. The right to life and sexual orientation 76. The Special Rapporteur is deeply concerned by numerous and continuing reports of persons having been killed or sentenced to death because of their sexual orientation. She is particularly disturbed by reports from Brazil,...

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...