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Colombia
Republic of Colombia / República de Colombia

Constitution | Executive | Judicial | Legislative | Legal Guides | General Sources

Constitution

  • Colombia: Constituciones / Constitutions (Georgetown University Political Database of the Americas) Constitución de 1991 con reformas hasta 2005 / Political Constitution of 1991 through 2005 reforms; in Spanish
  • Constitución Política de Colombia (Presidente de la República de Colombia) in Spanish (PDF)
  • International Constitutional Law: Colombia (Universität Bern Institut für Öffentliches Recht) background information only

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Executive

  • Presidente de la República de Colombia

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Judicial

  • COURTS: Corte Suprema de Justical

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Legislative

  • OFFICIAL GAZETTE: Diario Oficial
  • PARLIAMENT: Camera de Representantes and Senado
  • GLIN: Global Legal Information Network (Law Library of Congress) offers 7,073 searchable English-language abstracts of laws, decrees and regulations issued from January 1950 to present
  • Government Trade Bureau (Colombian Government Trade Bureau) sponsored by the Embassy of Colombia in Washington, DC; provides information in English about the economics and commercial laws of Colombia
  • Derecho de las Comunicaciones en Colombia (www.arkhais.com) includes telecommunication law in Spanish
  • NATLEX: Colombia (International Labour Organization) database of national laws on labor, social security and related human rights

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Legal Guides

  • GUIDE: Multinational Reference (Law Library of Congress)
  • Multinational Collections Database: Colombia (Law Library of Congress) provides bibliographic information on materials in our reference collection
  • FindLaw: Colombia
  • ForIntLaw: Colombia (Washburn University Law Library)
  • An Introduction to Colombian Governmental Institutions and Primary Legal Sources (Antonio Ramirez via GlobaLex) May 2007
  • JURIST: Colombia (University of Pittsburgh School of Law)
  • Natural Resources Legislation: Colombia (University of Denver College of Law)
  • World Directory of Parliamentary Libraries: Colombia (Germany Bundestag)
  • World Legal Information Institute: Colombia (WorldLII)
  • World Legal Materials from South America: Colombia (Cornell Legal Information Institute)

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General Sources

  • Country Profile: Colombia (Library of Congress) December 2004; PDFCountry Study: Colombia (Library of Congress) December 1988
  • Handbook of Latin American Studies (Library of Congress)
  • Places in the News: Colombia (Library of Congress)
  • Portals to the World: Colombia (Library of Congress)
  • Background Note: Colombia (U.S. Dept. of State)
  • Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments: Colombia (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
  • Consular Information Sheet: Colombia (U.S. Dept. of State)
  • Country Information: Colombia (U.S. Dept. of State)
  • Country Profile of Colombia (U.S. Dept. of Labor) - excerpt from By The Sweat and Toil of Children: A Report to Congress, Volume I (July 15, 1994)
  • Country Reports on Economic Policy and Trade Practices, 1993-2001 (U.S. Dept. of State)
  • Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Colombia (U.S. Dept. of State)
  • Economic Briefing: Colombia (The Economist)
  • Embassy of Colombia, WashingtonGovernments on the WWW: Colombia (Gunnar Anzinger)
  • Human Rights in Colombia (Amnesty International)
  • International Religious Freedom Annual Reports: Colombia (U.S. Dept. of State)
  • NATIONAL LIBRARY: Biblioteca Nacional de Colombia - information (IFLA)
  • NEWS: BBC World Americas U.S. Embassy , Bogota (U.S. Dept. of State) World Factbook: Colombia (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)World Hunger: Colombia (World Food Programme)
  • WWW DIRECTORIES / PORTALS: Colombia (Google); Colombia (Yahoo); WWW-VL Latin American Studies: Colombia (University of Texas, Austin)

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