Blog of the International Journal of Constitutional Law

Tag: displaced persons

  • Judicial Activism and Forced Displacement: Lessons from the Colombian Paradox

    —Cesar Rodríguez-Garavito, Universidad de los Andes and Dejusticia, and Diana Rodríguez-Franco, Northwestern University and Dejusticia Forced displacement affects millions of people in the world and entails a violation of basic human rights.  In many countries, given the lack of institutional capacity,  the main way of addressing this issue is through international human rights law  and…