Issue-Judiciary
The New Police Code’s Mistakes
This bill currently under review in Congress does not seem to prevent actions against peaceful coexistence, but does legalize the stigmatization of some populations.
Read MoreIn Praise of Noise
The Policing Code that is currently being debated in Congress restricts a central democratic right: the right to peaceful social protest.
Read MoreLessons from the Judicial Strike
Although on Friday courts re-opened, the judiciary’s structural problems persist without real solutions: judges and stuff, alongside government bodies, are responsible for improvising the implementation of reforms.
Read MoreBogotá Suspicious of Everyone
Everything seems to indicate that since Enrique Peñalosa entered as Bogotá’s mayor, we are all suspect of having committed a crime.
Read MoreThe Domesday Book
Almost a thousand years ago, the then King of England William I took a significant decision, one of which we Colombians can learn from, if we want to have a more solid state and a more efficient and equitable taxation system.
Read MorePeñalosa Is Painted There
Peñalosa is recuperating public space, isolating informal street vendors, sex workers, and homeless people so that the rest of the city doesn’t see them.
Read MoreJudiciary: Time To React!
The judiciary should react to its legitimacy and credibility crisis.
Read MoreLet’s Discuss Judicial Independence
There are many reports regarding the attacks against judicial independence in the region. But one difficulty that presents itself in discussions on this topic is that everything is lumped into the topic, limiting the analysis about the vulnerabilties that each country has, but also the possibility of debating these seriously.
Read MoreThe Constitutional Court: Between the Sacred and the Profane
The ban on sharing property in the first two years of a free union seems to be the result of religious influence on the Constitutional Court.
Read MoreTo Die in Detention
This past 5th of December, between 9:15 and 10:20 p.m., a trans person died while she was detained by the Police of the Permanent Justice Unit (UPJ) of Puente Arandoa in Bogota.
Read MoreNational Survey of legal needs
Commissioned by the Ministry of Justice and the World Bank, this survey assesses the state of access to justice in urban Colombia, identifies obstacles, and offers recommendations to improve access to justice and facilitate conflict resolution.
Read MorePrioritization and the criminal justice system
The discussion on whether the Prosecutor’s Office should focus on investigating certain crimes rather than others is important and difficult. But it does have a reasonable solution.
Read MoreThe crisis of justice in Colombia
Some months ago, when the discussion about the failed “justice reform” initiated, the constitutionalist Rodrigo Uprimny said: “The Colombian justice is ambiguous and paradoxical. Neither it is excellent nor it is collapsed. It has things that work well, but others are terrible”
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