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Expert analyzes common crime victims reparation
In international law of individual rights there is no State obligation to repair victims of common crime, noted the expert Rodrigo Uprimny Yepes.
Read MoreOFF Corruption. III Program
OFF Corruption is a program made by the Ocasa Corporation Ocasa in partnership with the World Bank Institute, the British Council, and Globalchangemakers.
See Vivian Newman’s intervention on the right of access to public information.
Read MoreBulls and rights
The debate about bullfighting seems minor but is deep and difficult since it has to do with complex issues such as the relationship of the majority with the likes of minorities and duties of human beings to animals.
Read MoreWaiting for an apology from “Don Antonio”
Lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and transgenderists-LGBT-also want to know the truth, access justice, and be repaired.
Read MoreA test to Santos’ foreign policy
Tomorrow, in Washington, we will know for sure what Santos’ foreign policy is.
Read MoreAh, normal!
Disability is not a disease. The contribution of doctors is important but more of the society is needed.
Read MoreDistrict Shaman vs. Prosecutors’ Te Deum
Public funds should not finance any religious worship expression.
Read MoreThe challenges of land restitution
Land restitution, which seems to be starting seriously with the handing over of the farm Las Catas last Thursday to 164 displaced farm families, is a necessary step. But it will not only be very difficult to achieve significant results but even if successful, the return is insufficient to consolidate peace, democracy, and justice in the rural sector.
Read MoreCrime, armed conflict, and state in Colombia, Mexico and Guatemala.
Until recent years, crime in Colombia, Mexico, and Guatemala was a phenomenon confined almost exclusively to national environments. This has changed in recent years. Crime is a phenomenon that has acquired increasingly global connotations in the region. Despite the importance of this issue, there is very little comparative regional literature that explores this problem. This paper makes a preliminary contribution in this sense and, to this effect, tries to make a comparison of crime in Colombia, Mexico, and Guatemala without losing sight of its relation to the capacity of state institutions.
Read MoreMunicipal stories of institutional weakness. The cases of Riohacha, Mocoa, and Arauca
This document complements, from a qualitative approach, the research contained in the book “The states of the country. Municipal institutions and local realities”. Here are the “life stories” of three municipalities -Riohacha, Mocoa, and Arauca- in which state power is not as strong as in other territories. In these stories we wanted to “contextualize” the hard data of the quantitative part and link some institutional indicators with a history and a specific social and political reality. We wanted, in short, to “tell a story of institutional weakness.”
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