The “José Alvear Restrepo” Lawyers Collective –CAJAR is a non-profit non-governmental organization that defends Human Rights in Colombia. In 1980, it acquired its legal status, becoming one of the first organizations for the defense of Human Rights in Colombia, made up of lawyers. It has consultative status with the Organization of American States, OAS, and the UN.

It fully defends and promotes human rights, environmental rights, and the rights of peoples, from a perspective of indivisibility and interdependence, with the aim of contributing to the construction of a just and equitable society from the perspective of political and economic inclusion, social and cultural.

History

The "José Alvear Restrepo" Lawyers Collective Corporation was born as a result of the work of the National Association of Professionals ASONALPRO, which brought together professionals from different disciplines who work in favor of the social and popular sectors; the defense of political prisoners and persecuted persons, comprehensive assistance to victims and their families in cases of human rights violations, such as arbitrary detentions, forced disappearances of persons, extrajudicial executions, massacres, and torture.

General purpose

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

Mission

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