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Dejusticia and the International Drug Policy Consortium
Since mid-October Dejusticia is part of the International Drug Policy Consortium (IDPC).
Read MoreThe colombian paradox: legalism and violence
Colombia is a legalist country where many social and political discussions have an inevitable legal component. In turn, many legal debates have considerable political impact.
Read MoreRoyalties: a citizen debate
Many citizens are not interested in discussions on public finances, such as the one on mining and petroleum royalties, because they seem boring and technical.
Read MoreReelection and democracy
The Constitutional Court rendered a great service to Colombian democracy by preventing the second immediate presidential reelection.
Read MoreSuccess and silences of the health reform
LAST WEEK, WHILE the media chased the judicial new of the moment, the Government proposed the most important health reform in 17 years, which maintains the model of Law 100 of 1993 but makes key adjustments.
Read MoreThe reasons why the election of judges of the National Electoral Council can be null.
A nullity action filed by Dejusticia argues that the Congress missed legal requirements and therefore the election of the electoral tribunal could be repeated.
Read MoreInformation: in a crystal box?
On this 28th of September, International Day of the right to know, the access to public information in Colombia fails the test.
Read MoreThe duty of remembrance
The Czech writer Milan Kundera expressed the duty societies have to remember the atrocities in a beautiful phrase from one of his characters: “The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.”
Read MoreThe Pacific of Santos
PASSING BY La Toma, Cauca, is rubbing a bomb about to explode. Down in the distance are the town of Suarez and the Salvajina reservoir, which in 1985 displaced and changed forever the life of black communities that have inhabited the area for nearly four centuries.
Read MoreLand reform and restitution
The draft law on land reform proposed by the Government should be complemented with other instruments if the goal is a true transformation of agrarian relations.
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