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Future university
Universities haven’t changed much during the last one hundred years. The idea is still the same: presencial lessons directed by a professor that repeats, semestre after semester, the contents of a class; written exams to discipline students periodically; programs and professors separated by the disciplinary frontiers of a century ago: still textbooks that loose their actuality as they are published.
Read MoreKenia and Colombia: so close, so far
The distance of the equatorial paralel that takes us from Colombia to Kenia is so big, that it would seem that the two countries have nothing to do with each other. But, we have not only borrowed drums from them, skin color and tubercules. Nor is it only their emerging economy from wich other countries in Africa depend on, nor the conflict that is generated with the extraction of natural resources that puts us in similar situations. This african country is close to us in many issues in which, for now, one could remark the Political Constitution and the role of the judicial branch.
Read MoreLess flowers and more recognition
Colombia should abandon the logic of flowers, celebrations and congratulations. Women’s day wasn’t made to do an homage to the “female atributes” but to remember the inequalities and discrimination that women all around the world have to face.
Read MoreThe legal limits to the reforms to the Statute of the Interamerican Comssion of Human RIghts
Document on the process of reform of the Interamerican Comision of Human Rights, signed by 139 academics of different universities.
Read MoreSantos and gender equality
The celebration of women’s day, last friday, is a good opportunity to think about the politics of the government to erase gender discrimination agains women. The balance is mixed.
Read MoreSteping toes in the healthcare reform
The announced healthcare reforme shows that the Government is up to step on the powerful toes of the responsible of the crisis of the system. We still have to wait and see the details of the law, but starting now, the radical opposition of sectors as the EPS is a sign that the project is going in a good direction.
Read MoreThe strategy of Colombia before the Interamerican Court of Human Rights in the case of the Palace of Justice: ¿poor or malintentioned?
En my previous entry, I showed, without pretending to be exhaustive, some punctual but huge mistakes and contradictions of the pledge of Colombia before the Interamerican Court of Human Rights in the case of the Palace of Justice. In this entry, as I had said, I will analice the strategy of defense. I again apologize for the extent and the excess of technico-juridical arguments, but I think that this examination is necessary.
Read MoreOur debts to Angélica
We still owe Angélica Bello and the victims of the conflict recognition and the warranty of their rights.
Read MoreThey are still disappeared
Colombia sustains before the Interamerican Court of Human Rights that it cannot be condemned for the disappereances of the Palace of Justice, because there are no proofs that show that this 12 people left the Palace alive and that they were disappeared ny a state’s agent. But this thesis is false, both a probatory and at a normative level.
Read MoreWoman can have it all?
Why are there so few women in directive positions? Is it because of the rules of the game that are discriminatory or because of decisions that they make themselves that relegate them to the middle management?
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