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The migration of Venezuelans nationals to other Latin-American countries has been defined as the most significant migratory phenomenon in the recent story of the region, with Colombia being the country that hosts the highest number of Venezuelan nationals. From a human rights perspective, this article critically analyzes the response of the Colombian State to address migration from Venezuela. The objective of this article is to show that Colombia has preferred to govern this migration through the creation of ad hoc permits, instead of recognizing the need for international protection of this population and their status as refugees. To this end, this paper analyzes the Colombian regulatory framework on migration and refuge and, in particular, the response of the Colombian State to the migration of people from Venezuela. Its central argument is that the Colombian authorities have opted for the design and implementation of alternative measures of migratory regularization, as it was at the time the Special Permit of Permanence and is today the Permit for Temporary Protection. This article concludes by stating that the approach to Venezuelan migration has led to a clear detriment to the refugee system, today collapsed and with no prospect of reform or strengthening. This is so because the institutional design of the Colombian refuge entails a host of obstacles that discourage applicants from following this path, even when they require international protection. The authors of this paper use legal dogmatic as the main research methodology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this article was to review the relationship between narrative and information inside the Commission for the Clarification of Truth, Coexistence and Non-Repetition (CEV, from its Spanish acronym). In addition, this article examines the implications of the use of narrative to build truth, specifically the truth that the CEV is seeking, and elucidate the approach of truth in which it is situated. For these purposes, we analyze the method used by the CEV to collect testimonies and upload those to the Mission Information System (SIM, from its Spanish acronym). In this paper, we identify the SIM's scope and limits, and discuss the Commission's statements about the characteristics of its final report in light of the use of information and the narrative strategy to build truth. We concluded that the relationship between the categories of narrative and information reflects the epistemological problems inherent to the social sciences regarding the tension between objectivity and subjectivity. Furthermore, the validity of the CEV's elaborations will depend on the rigor of contrasting different versions and sources, rather than the amount of information it collects. Likewise, we highlight the relevance of the role that SIM played in opening up to new technical and methodological tools for uncovering the truth and monitoring human rights in Colombia, and the rest of the world. Nonetheless, there needs to be consideration for the complexities and dilemmas that information sciences deal with when analyzing social reality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

At the intersection between sociology, anthropology and law, this article analyses the various legal instruments for the protection of the natural environment in Colombia. In their application, these instruments have produced a range of conflicts, stemming from ecosystem conservation strategies, legal complexity and disregarded social realities. Based on the analysis of the situation in the Ciénaga Grande de Santa Marta, the paper argues that the interaction of the different environmental protection and conservation measures is generating a tension between guaranteeing protection for human rights, people's well-being and the ecosystems themselves. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper studies the relationship of the perception of corruption and lack of transparency with voting preferences and protests. It examines the case of Colombia using data from the 2015 Latinobarómetro Survey and a multinomial logistic model that assumes a simultaneous choice of participation type (or a combination of types), which allows us to establish whether the preference for protest substitutes or complements the preference for voting. A positive relationship was found between the perception of corruption and lack of transparency with the preference to protest in addition to voting. If citizens perceive greater corruption or doubt government transparency, they are more willing to participate in demonstrations, without reducing their support for electoral participation. This suggests that there is a general acceptance of formal democratic participation despite the shortcomings of the political regime. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Although there are analysises of human rights' guarantees in Colombia, there are few studies focused on the historical reconstruction of policies in this area. This paper is based on the recognition that public action is dynamic because it is the product of communication between institutions and condenses dissent in the understanding of human rights' concepts. Thus, intervention priorities and their scope are the result of institutional choices that may vary or last over time. In this context, based on the analysis of the dialogue between entities involved in human rights policies, the article documents the way in which the concept of human rights has been consolidated and supports action on the matter, specifically, in Barco's government, which announces solutions and, above all, current problems in the public agenda and in current social revindications. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Scientific and medical developments, added to our reality in Colombia, demand the training of professionals consistent with ethical principles and clear theoretical concepts on current regulations that are aimed at respect for human life. The country's current constitutional situation poses a challenge to any professional, beyond the legal or health fields, since fundamental rights such as life and freedom of conscience are being questioned. This paper demonstrates the need and importance of promoting and accessing conscientious objection as a response to the legal landscape of the protection of life in Colombia, which may be an example for other countries in Latin America. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the role played by the indigenous knowledges of the People of the Centre -a multiethnic indigenous group of Colombian Amazonia- in the Witoto Ethnic Safeguarding Plan of Leticia (PSE). This is one of the 34 Plans that the Colombian Constitutional Court compelled the State to create and implement to protect indigenous peoples threatened by internal forced displacement. Drawing on anticolonial and decolonizing research and on subaltern perspectives on human rights, the paper focuses on the PSE as an intercultural and unequal dialogue that forces indigenous people to express themselves in the State and Court's discourses of rights. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The notion of victim has been applied in the human rights (HR) field with a series of different connotations in each country. In this paper we aim to reflect on its uses and appropriations within the context of a series of laws and government programs designed to compensate the victims of state terrorism in Argentina and of the armed conflict in Colombia. Based on the gathering of documents and fieldwork with public servants and diverse groups of people who have been identified as victims, we analyze the meanings that this category has acquired and its possible applications in heterogeneous social contexts. O conceito vítima vem sendo aplicado no campo dos direitos humanos (DH) com uma série de conotações particulares em cada país. Neste trabalho, ocupamo-nos de refletir sobre seus usos e apropriações no âmbito de um conjunto de leis e programas governamentais destinados a reparar as vítimas do terrorismo de Estado na Argentina e do conflito armado interno na Colômbia. A partir da recopilação de documentos e do trabalho de campo com servidores públicos e diversos grupos de pessoas que têm sido identificadas como vítimas, analisamos os sentidos que essa categoria e suas possíveis aplicações adquirem em contextos sociais heterogêneos. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper account for the main collective actions undertaken by two women networks in Colombia: Women's Peace Route and the Colombian Women Initiative for Peace, during transition justice process and the implementation of the Justice and Peace Law (2004- 2009). From a sociological approach to the political process and the gender category, this paper discusses how gender ideologies inform new ways of mobilization affecting discourses, purposes and repertoires of those claiming identities and defending human rights. The main conclusion here is that the feminist influence in redistribution and acknowledgement claims for victims from the armed conflict have encouraged collective actions that begin to modify their relationship to the State. This is proved by their achievements at Court and social acknowledgement victims have gained as social actors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to show the contradictions of the concept of 'victim' that was created by Colombian criminal Procedure code. This concept is wrong because the Colombian criminal Procedure code has created a concept of 'victim' that develops an ontologic status of this participant in the criminal procedure that does not fit with the activities that they could to do, when they defend their interests. This paper will defend that instead we asking: what the victims of a crime are? We should ask: what could the victims of a crime do? The answer of this question will allow develop a policy which will protect to the victim's rights, and will allow clarify the sorts of interventions that the victims could do when they take part in Colombian Criminal Procedure. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The main objective of this paper is to present the characterization that the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (iachr) has made through its decisions of the concept of conventionality control and the implementation of this concept in Colombia. In particular, we aim to demonstrate that the development of this concept in the decisions of the Constitutional Court and the State Council has had a breakthrough in terms of normative integration of the Inter- American corpus iuris with domestic law. However, our courts have been shy to express the supremacy of international standards on all national laws, and because of this, they have prevented the construction of a conventionality control of the laws that goes far beyond the traditional constitutional control. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The document is entended to present normative context, delimit the content and analyze the impact of the final decision, from the intervention made by PAIIS which was requested by the Constitutional Court, in records No. T-3672842 and T-3754187 that were cases accumulated, which consist in protective actions complaint and made by Luis Antonio Pérez and Marcos Omar Suárez Covos Piragauta, two paralympic athletes who have represented the country in national and international competitions like shooting sport and swimming, against the Administrative Department of Sport, Recreation, physical Activity and Use of Free Time (Coldeportes), which gave rise to the judgment T-287 of 2013, issued by the Sixth Court of review of the Constitutional Court. The author of this paper made the research and writing of amicus curiae which was presented to the Court under the supervision of the consultant team, paiis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The document is entended to present normative context, delimit the content and analyze the impact of the final decision, from the intervention made by PAIIS which was requested by the Constitutional Court, in records No. T-3672842 and T-3754187 that were cases accumulated, which consist in protective actions complaint and made by Luis Antonio Pérez and Marcos Omar Suárez Covos Piragauta, two paralympic athletes who have represented the country in national and international competitions like shooting sport and swimming, against the Administrative Department of Sport, Recreation, physical Activity and Use of Free Time (Coldeportes), which gave rise to the judgment T-287 of 2013, issued by the Sixth Court of review of the Constitutional Court. The author of this paper made the research and writing of amicus curiae which was presented to the Court under the supervision of the consultant team, paiis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines how the principles of corporate social responsibility are included in the Colombian legal system. This is a descriptive and cross-sectional research based on qualitative data, which examines the legal regulation of CSR in Colombia, from the analysis of the principles of Global Compact grouped into four areas: human rights, labor, environmental and fight against corruption. It is concluded that the different aspects of CSR are regulated to a greater or lesser extent in the Colombian legal system, which shows that this is not, at least not entirely voluntary and that the regulation in this area as well as voluntary initiatives are appropriate and necessary, not contradictory, but are complementary instead. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper focuses on the scope of the factors jurisdiction of the ICC, first designed from the ground in the development of instruments for the protection of human rights and IHL, as well as from the development of international justice. Secondly, we verified the basics for building international justice from the developments of the 1998 Rome Statute for the creation of the ICC both internationally and domestically incorporation. Finally, determine the scope of international justice with regard to competitive factors and interest in the case of Colombia, as well as its possible action under international responsibility in the national context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The current dissertation covers a critical approach about concepts and political contemporary debates on nation State issues, particularly in cases of societies deeply affected by internal conflicts, such us the Colombian case. The paper focuses in the implementation process of the transitional justice political technologies, in regard of the restoration of internal displaced people rights. The main thesis argues that this new field of policy development in Colombia is performing as another field of trasnationalitation of states responsibilities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper focuses on the stories of five Indian women from Cauca, Colombia. It not only emphasizes on feminine voices and subjectivities, but also reveals the dilemmas and cross roads women endure on their every day lives even though they don't abandon neither their hopes nor their dreams. More over, it shows how their emotional and social constructions allow them to survive in the midst of barbarism, and how they contribute through words to visualize, reshape and provide a context to the feminine thought in Colombia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]