The recognition of rights to same-sex couples: the path towards a pluralistic concept of family

This paper presents the final results of the research project undertaken in 2010 and 2011 by the legal research group “Filius”, affiliated with Corporación Universitaria Empresarial Alexander von Humboldt of Armenia, (Quindío). The project’s general objective is “to establish the concept of family used by the Colombian legal system based on the judgments of the Constitutional Court granting rights to same-sex couples”. To this end, a line of jurisprudence was developed from the Court’s rulings that discussed the rights of same-sex couples, concluding that despite the great progress made in Colombia on the recognition of rights to these couples following Decision C-075/2007, in all these judgments the Court had always refused to recognize their family status, and it was not until 2011, in Decision C-577, that the Court accepted that same-sex couples constitute a family, thereby dramatically changing the constitutional doctrine that had maintained the criteria of heterosexuality as defining family.

La reparación integral a las víctimas en Colombia, análisis crítico a la “ley de víctimas”; caso del departamento de Nariño

La ley de víctimas es la norma creada para la protección de los derechos de las víctimas en Colombia; empero cuenta con falencias respecto del concepto de víctima y su reparación integral. El Derecho Administrativo es la herramienta jurídica para superar dichas limitaciones legislativas.