ILEX -Acción Jurídica is a non-profit organization with the main domicile in the city of Bogotá and relations offices in the cities of Cartagena, Pasto, New York (USA), Los Angeles Cal (USA). It was formed in 2015 and constituted in 2018, by 7 Afro-descendant lawyers from different regions of the country, with academic and professional potential interested in providing technical-legal and political support to the escalating materialization of social, economic, and justice in general. racial, Afro-descendant people in the region in their individual and collective conception.
What they do
Ilex Acción Jurídica is a civil society organization aimed at promoting strategies for legal action, communications, and social research with an intersectional approach, to contribute to the effective enjoyment of the rights of Afro-descendant communities and people.
LINES AND WORK STRATEGIES
With the leadership of the founders of the organization and their academic training, ILEX seeks to bring together and coordinate work between professionals from different disciplines in order to generate tools that contribute to different struggles that the Afro-descendant population in Colombia makes.