Strategic Lines and work areas

Fight against Impunity

The Luis Carlos Pérez Collective Corporation of Lawyers is recognized as lawyers and defenders at the service of the people, being one of our purposes to bring and put the right to the service of the communities and accompany the processes of enforceability of rights and fight against impunity, through permanent accompaniment to the Victims of serious human rights violations and violations of IHL, in the defense, vindication and protection of their most basic human rights, as well as in the way of enforcing them and in promoting them.

The work of this strategic line is carried out through:

Legal advice and support.

Presentation of legal actions of the national order before the criminal, administrative, disciplinary and constitutional jurisdiction, and at international level before the Regional System and the United Nations in especially emblematic and collective causes according to our social and legal bets.

Organizational strengthening of the organizations we accompany, through Leadership Training Schools and Human Rights Workshops.

Political advocacy through human rights platforms such as the Colombia Europe United States-CCEEU Coordination, from which the litigation strategy in cases of Extrajudicial Executions before the Inter-American System and interlocution with civil authorities in Colombia is advanced in the Bureau on Extrajudicial Executions.

Reports to United Nations Rapporteurs for Extrajudicial Executions, Arbitrary Detentions, Committee against Torture, Human Rights Defenders, Indigenous Peoples and working groups.

Monitoring of the Human Rights Situation, through Verification Commissions and preparation of reports that denounce the current human rights situation in the regions where we carry out our work.

Follow-up of the legal processes carried out in the administrative, criminal, disciplinary and constitutional areas.

Territory Defense

The Defense of the Territory line seeks to contribute to the strengthening of organized communities through legal, educational support and political advocacy in the defense of their territory, their own ways of life, defense and protection of their territorial, collective and environmental rights, and in its opposition to the imposition of an extractivist economic model and the legal policies and frameworks of dispossession.

The work of this strategic line is carried out through:

Implementation of action research strategies that identify risks and threats, support the formulation of plans and proposals of organized communities, denounce the impacts and violations generated by the development of extractive economies in the defense and enforceability of territorial, collective and collective rights. environmental.

Legal strategies of national and international litigation in favor of the life projects of the communities, against the dispossession of the territories, tending to the declaration of responsibility and integral reparation for the violation of the rights, that have an impact on the legal frameworks, in Public Policies related to environmental, mining, energy, agricultural and territorial matters.

Advice and legal support of environmental and community initiatives whose agenda is the defense of water, territory, biodiversity and natural resources.

Organizational strengthening through educational support and political advocacy aimed at the formulation of work plans that include enforceability of rights and defense of territories.

Administrative and Financial Area

The Luis Carlos Pérez Bar Association has worked for the incorporation and development of administrative, financial and accounting processes, which substantially add up to comply with the purpose of the CCALCP.

Today, there is a politically consolidated Administrative, Financial and Accounting Area, but also, in a professional, qualified and technical manner, it has positioned the realities of CCALCP and of organizational processes accompanied by national and international fiscal requirements.

It is possible to give continuity and deepen requirements, processes and internal control procedures; but in turn, and as a great challenge, to raise the feasibility of the work of the organization from the responsible analysis of resources available, and to generate greater tools that enable the achievement of economic, technical and political support.