In a landmark ruling for fundamental freedoms in Colombia, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights found that for over two decades the state government harassed, surveilled, and persecuted members of a lawyer’s group that defends human rights defenders, activists, and indigenous people, putting.
Bogota, Jul 8 (Prensa Latina) The magistrate of Colombia's National Electoral Council Luis Guillermo Perez proposed on Friday to transform the Ministry of Justice into a Ministry of Justice and Human Rights in the next administration.
The amicus brief demonstrates that Colombia's intelligence law and unlawful communication surveillance practices violate the right to privacy and other human rights under the American Convention on Human Rights.
EFF, Article 19, Fundación Karisma, and Privacy International, represented by Berkeley Law’s International Human Rights Law Clinic, urged the Inter-American Court of Human Rights to rule that Colombia’s existing legal framework regulating intelligence activities, and the unlawful and arbitrary.