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The presidential objection to the justice reform
The Santos government (and not only the Minister of Justice) has a clear political responsibility in the fact that the reform of justice became the institutional tangle that is threatening the country today. Not only did it presented the reform and impulsed it but it even asked its majorities in the Congress to aprove the text that merged from the conciliation.
Read MoreReasons for the referendum
To tackle the grotesque judicial reform, both law and politics point out the same solution: sign the citizen referendum to repeal it.
Read MoreCan Santos return the justice reform? (updated)
Constitutionally, return the reform to the Congress is difficult.
Read MoreTake advantage, no one is watching
“Don’t give papaya” and “at given papaya, splitted papaya” are Colombian social commandments that prevent citizenship projects like public bike sharing systems.
Read MoreCivil society organizations call on the Congress to speed up the discussion of the Draft Law on Access to Public Information
The fourth and final debate of the Statutory Law shall be held on Tuesday 19 June in the House of Representatives. The guarantee to the fundamental right of access to information is racing against the clock in this legislature that ends on Wednesday.
Read MoreIn the Presidential Palace, the Quota Act does not stick
A few years ago, a professor gave a lecture in a town on the Law 80 of administrative contracts, which had just been approved, so that the local government could comply with it.
Read MoreThe State and sexual violence against women in the context of socio-political violence in Colombia
Report submitted by women’s and human rights organizations to the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict, Margot Wallstrom, on the occasion of her visit to Colombia. The report relates the situation of sexual violence against women in the context of socio-political violence in Colombia, and the state response to it.
Read MoreA year gone, nine more to go
In the blink of an eye passed the first of ten years that were set by the State as deadline to compensate the victims of the armed conflict.
Read More¿Santos against the Inter-American system?
It’s time to discuss the dangerous double game of the Colombian government regarding human rights which became evident last week at the OAS General Assembly in Bolivia.
Read MoreNot even a Rose more?
Why do we remember Rosa Cely’s face, while ignoring that of many others who have been raped, tortured, and murdered?
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