Uncategorized
Wedding bells ring
We had to wait until the last possible day to see if the Constitutional Court would say I do to equal marriage. For over two years this elusive Court has had society on tenterhooks with its reply. Last year it evaded the issue arguing procedural excuses, but today is the deadline to say yes, I do.
Read MoreSpeech by Rodrigo Uprimny in the public hearing of the Constitutional Court on the health system.
On Thursday July 7 the Constitutional Court held a public hearing on the enforcement of the decision T-760 of 2008.
To see the intervention of Rodrigo Uprimny see the video.
Read MoreYes or no to gay marriage?
Until next Friday can the Constitutional Court rule in depth on the possibility of same-sex couples to join legally.
Rodrigo Uprimny, executive director of the Center for the Study of Law, Justice, and Society, and José Galat, the rector of the University of La Gran Colombia, debate over gay marriage.
Read MoreIs the debate on the constitutional reform to justice starting?
The debate on the constitutional reform to justice appears to be starting as the government will present its project in coming days, after trying unsuccessfully for several months to harmonize it with the high courts.
Read MoreThe 1991 Constitution in perspective (II)
In his column on July 7, Eduardo Posada Carbó considers it is “a poor defense of the 1991 Constitution,” to argue that it breaks with the Colombian constitutional tradition and is distinguished from ones before because it was not the imposition of the victors.
Read MoreConstitution, Court, and economists
A critical look at the impact the Magna Carta of 1991 has had on the Colombian economy.
Read MoreAccess to justice for women victim of sexual violence.
The Alliance Initiative of Colombian Women for Peace, the Center
Study of Law, Justice, and Society, the Lawyers Collective José Alvear
Restrepo, the Colombian Commission of Jurists, the Consultancy for
Human Rights and Forced Displacement, the Corporation “Casa de la Mujer”,
the Sisma Mujer Corporation, the League of Displaced Women, the Working Group on Women and Armed Conflict, the Democracy, Gender, and Human Rights, and the Women’s Pacific Route, gathered at the follow-up table of the order issued to the Attorney General’s Office and the
invitation to the Prosecutor General’s Office related to the reserved annex of
Auto 092 of 2008 of the Constitutional Court, present the
fourth monitoring report entitled “Access to Justice for Women
victim of sexual violence”. The table has the support from the Office in Colombia of the High Commissioner of the
United Nations for Human Rights and UN Women.
In order to read the report, download the PDF.
Read MoreAbuses that exploit
The exploitation of natural resources is often so abusive and unfair as labor or sexual exploitation.
Read MoreThe power of sexual harassment (III)
POWER AND SEX have always had an intimate relationship, literally.
Read MoreSex, lies, and disequilibrium
What can we conclude from the clear imbalance between a white and millionaire man, with confessed weakness for women and a black and immigrant woman thirty years younger, with questioned credibility?
Read More