Colectivo De Abogados José Alvear Restrepo - "José Alvear Restrepo" Collective Bar Association (CCAJAR)

About

The "José Alvear Restrepo" Collective Bar Association - CCAJAR - is a non-profit non-governmental organization, human rights defender in Colombia. In the year of 1980 acquires its legal status becoming one of the first organizations defending human rights in Colombia composed of lawyers.

Currently, he has consultative status with the Organization of American States, OAS, and is in the process of obtaining consultative status with the UN. It has knowledge and participation of different social and democratic sectors of the population, defends and promotes integrally human rights and the rights of peoples, from a perspective of indivisibility and interdependence, with the aim of contributing to the construction of a just society and fair in the perspective of political, economic, social and cultural inclusion.

General purpose

Defend and promote Human Rights from a comprehensive perspective, based on their indivisibility and the interdependence of all rights and freedoms, to contribute to the fight against impunity, and the construction of a just and equitable society, in the perspective of political inclusion , economic, social and cultural, and strive for respect and full enforcement of the rights of peoples to sovereignty, self-determination, development and peace with social justice.

Specific objectives

Overcome the strategies and mechanisms of impunity that have prevailed in cases of serious violations of human rights and crimes against humanity.
Establish the truth about crimes against humanity perpetrated in Colombia, seek to investigate, prosecute and punish those responsible (perpetrators, promoters, financiers, beneficiaries, etc.) and demand full compensation for the damage caused, both individually and collectively, as well as the reconstruction of the social fabric.
To contribute to the strengthening of the organizational processes of the victims, family members, communities and social sectors for the defense, enforceability and conquest of their rights.
To make visible the situation of Human Rights in Colombia and to influence the actors that have a role in the protection of the victims, the promotion of Human Rights and the realization of the guarantees of Truth, Justice and Comprehensive Reparation.

Mission

Defend and promote Human Rights from an integral perspective, based on their indivisibility and the interdependence of all rights and freedoms, to contribute to overcoming impunity, the consolidation of a democratic, participatory Social State of Law, with a society fair and equitable, in the perspective of political, economic, social and cultural inclusion, and achieve a stable and lasting peace.

Vision

The CAJAR is a national and international reference organization for the victims of political violence, for the construction and application of a proposal for the enforceability and justiciability of human rights, within the framework of national and international legislation, which ensures peaceful coexistence, pluralism, diversity, where the most vulnerable women, indigenous and Afro-descendants are recognized their rights and are fully integrated into a democratic state at the service of the general interest and welfare of the population.

Values

The values that identify the CCAJAR are social love, commitment to life and human rights, justice, truth, solidarity, dialogue, independence, autonomy, coherence, participation, transparency, work in network, responsibility and professionalism.