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2. Strategic Litigation Manual: From Theory to Practice, Lessons from Colombia and Lebanon
- Author:
- Ana Jimena Bautista Revelo, Blanca Capacho Niño, Luis Felipe Cruz Olivera, Margarita Martínez, Isabel Pereira, and Lucía Ramírez Bolívar
- Publication Date:
- 10-2018
- Content Type:
- Special Report
- Institution:
- Dejusticia
- Abstract:
- This report explores the ways that rural norms, gender structures, the armed conflict, and illegal markets have played out in the lives of women coca growers in Colombia’s Andes-Amazon region, an area distinguished by the presence of illegal armed groups, violence, poverty, and weak state institutions. In this region of Colombia, coca cultivation has offered an important source of income for rural families, which in turn has affected women’s roles in society and has placed them in a vulnerable position vis- à-vis armed actors. The Andes-Amazon region is an area where the country’s war on drugs and its armed conflict converged and unmasked the gender structures dominating the countryside. These structures affected rural women in various ways: through everyday violence, the fumigation of illicit and licit crops alike, and women’s stigmatization due to their involvement in an illegal trade. But coca was also a source of livelihood that helped them attain economic independence and gave them the ability to improve their well-being and that of their families. The recent peace accord signed between the Colombian government and the country’s main guerrilla group represents a historic opportunity to learn from past mistakes in terms of the illicit crop problem and the social and political demands of coca-growing communities. Against this backdrop, it is time to recognize the contributions that women coca growers have made in both the public and the private spheres toward the construction of a peaceful countryside in the most remote and forgotten regions of the country.
- Topic:
- Agriculture, Development, Women, Rural, and Farming
- Political Geography:
- Colombia and Lebanon
3. A balancing act: Drug policy in Colombia after UNGASS 2016
- Author:
- Luis Felipe Cruz and Isabel Pereira
- Publication Date:
- 12-2017
- Content Type:
- Special Report
- Institution:
- Dejusticia
- Abstract:
- This document is the result of a project developed by Dejusticia in cooperation with the Ministry of Justice and Law of Colombia and the British Embassy in Colombia, with funds from the United Kingdom through its embassy in Colombia. During 2016, two historic events were held to reflect about drug strategies in Colombia: the United Nations Special Session on the World Drug Problem (UNGASS 2016) and the signing of the Peace Agreement between the Government and the FARC-EP, which includes the agreement on the “Solution to the problem of illicit drugs”. In light of the commitments made by the Colombian State, there are challenges and possibilities for drug policy reform, particularly when hoping to achieve a better balance between a criminalization perspective and the recognition and guarantee of rights to populations affected by prohibition’s harmful effects.
- Topic:
- Human Rights, War on Drugs, Criminal Justice, Public Policy, Drugs, and Public Health
- Political Geography:
- United Kingdom, Colombia, and Latin America