TIMELINE
THE ATRATO IS LIFE
TIMELINE
Judgment approval
Judgment approval in the Sixth Courtroom of the Constitutional Court.
Judgment publication
Judgment Publication on the website of the Court
Judgment notice
Judgment notice Judgment notice to the respondent entities.
Petition on warning of increasing illegal mining
CCGA Petition Submission to the Court of Cundinamarca, warning of concern about the increasing illegal mining and the pandemic context.
Order No. 001 of the Administrative Tribunal of Cundinamarca
Request to the Environmental Prosecutor's Office to report on the status of administrative procedures initiated against entities that refuse to comply with the execution of orders.
Order No. 002 of the Administrative Tribunal of Cundinamarca
Request to the Office of the Comptroller for the Environment to provide a balance of the actions carried out in fulfilment with its constitutional obligations and ninth order.
Order No. 003 of the Administrative Tribunal of Cundinamarca
Request to the Ombudsman's Office for Collective Rights to present to the Tribunal the work agenda for the year 2021 on meetings/workshops with the communities of the Atrato River and present a report on the results of the work of the Guardians Commission.
Order No. 004 of the Administrative Tribunal of Cundinamarca
Request the Ministry of Environment to present a report on the PAO5, regarding budget, execution schedule, steps taken in relation to DNP, and the Ministry of Finance, etc.
Order No. 005 of the Administrative Tribunal of Cundinamarca
It sets June 11th and December 11th as the deadlines for the submission of the Monitoring Committee reports.
Order No. 006 of the Administrative Tribunal of Cundinamarca
Opening of an incident of non-compliance by the Ministry of Environment officials for violation of the 5th order.
Order No. 007 of the Administrative Tribunal of Cundinamarca
Opening of an incident of non-compliance with the Attorney General for Environmental Matters for violation of the 9th order, for not taking disciplinary measures for the central government.
Order No. 008 of the Administrative Tribunal of Cundinamarca
Opening of an incident of non-compliance by the Ministry of Environment officials for violation of the 7th order.
Order No. 009 of the Administrative Tribunal of Cundinamarca
Sanctions for non-compliance by the Ministry of Environment officials for violation of the 5th order.
Order No. 010 of the Administrative Tribunal of Cundinamarca
Rejects the request for clarification and complementation filed by the Ministry of Environment regarding Order 009.
Order No. 011 of the Administrative Tribunal of Cundinamarca
Grants the resources of appeal against Order No. 010.
Petition balance 5 years to the Constitutional Court
Submission of a Petition on 5 year of the Judgment prepared by the CCGA.
Petition on the illegal mining situation
Submission of a Petition to the Tribunal and Monitoring Committee regarding the illegal mining situation in Paimadó, Río Quito.
Order No. 012 of the Administrative Tribunal of Cundinamarca
Fulfilment Verification Order No. 012 in which the Ministries of Environment, Agriculture and Health are required to submit reports to the office and orders the Ministry of Environment to convene the Monitoring Committee, the Cuerpo Colegiado de Guardianes del Atrato, the Panel of Experts and other interested academic centers to hold a forum to diagnose the reasons for the slow progress in the implementation of the orders, and to review and rethink the strategies to effectively achieve fulfilment with judgment T-622.
Order of April 11th, 2023, of the Constitutional Court
Order that refrains from opening a motion for contempt of judgment T-622 and orders the Monitoring Court to act in a diligent and timely manner to give due fulfilment of the orders of this judgment.
Pre-forum: Atrato, Territory of Culture and life in the framework of the ST-622 of 2016.
The objective of the three-day Preforum was to establish a space for the analysis, balance and prospective of the actions developed in fulfilment with the orders contained in Judgment T-622 of 2016. These spaces were held in person in Bogota and consisted of a platform for dialogue and cooperation between actors of the Atrato River judgment to address structural and fundamental issues in the implementation of the judgment.
Forum: Atrato, Territory of Culture and life in the framework of the ST-622 of 2016.
The objective of the Forum was to establish a space for the analysis of the gaps identified in the pre-forums and their respective solutions by the responsible entities with the purpose of establishing a clear action route to overcome the bottlenecks that have contributed to the slow progress of the T-622 judgment.
Monitoring hearing regarding the compliance with judgment T-622 of 2016
First monitoring hearing on the case. The Tribunal of Cundinamarca ordered the enforcement of working groups and subsequent hearings to address specific aspects of the judgment, with emphasis on resolving the illegal mining problem in the Atrato River watershed.
Interlocutory Order Tribunal of Cundinamarca
In this order, the Tribunal ordered the involvement of the Alta Consejería para las Regiones to call a meeting to address the issue of illegal mining, as well as to schedule visits to the affected communities in the watershed.
Invited columnists: Viviana Gonzáles and Rodrigo Rogelis, members of the Centro Sociojurídico para la Defensa Territorial Siembra, legal attorneys of the petitioners of the judgment T-622 of the Atrato River.
In order to guarantee the protection and decontamination of the Atrato River, in Chocó, Colombia, the judges of the Constitutional Court declared it a “subject of right”. Six years after the judgment, there is still a lot to do. This is a collective work with the journalist Marie Eve Detoeuf, from “Le Monde”.
The Guardians of Atrato, along with the Centro Sociojurídico Siembra, will submit next Thursday, November 3rd, a petition to the Constitutional Court for the fifth anniversary of the Judgment T-622, the first to acknowledge a River a subject of rights. In the text, the status of the implementation of the judgment is identified, and even though it has progressed, it has not been fully fulfilled.
“The judgment T-622 of the Constitutional Court? Everybody here knows it”, says José Adán Palacios, while he charges his boat on the pier of Quibdó. José Adán, who is from Bojayá, transports passengers and merchandise, and knows better than anyone this majestic River and its watersheds. “But the judgment has not changed a thing; the contamination carries on, whether it is due to the mining, deforestation, or trash”, the boatman sighs.