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Comments on the official response to the Decision T-496 of 2008
This document presents some comments to the official response presented by the Ministry of Interior and Justice and the Attorney General’s Office to the case T-496 of 2008, which amended the Decree 3570 of 2007 that established the program of Victim and Witness Protection of Law 975 of 2005. In particular, it identifies the reasons why the Case’ Monitoring Committee believes the answer does not fully and integrally comply the orders issued by the Constitutional Court.
Read MoreDemocratic Coalition
For a democratic country to progress it needs at least these three elements: security, social equality, and respect for the law.
Read MoreRacial discrimination in Colombia
Every 21 of May, Colombians celebrate the National Day of Afro-Colombians in order to commemorate the abolition of slavery in 1851. This national day was established by the Law 975 of 2001.
Read MoreThe Survival of The Past
What I believe is cultural heritage, in spite of globalization, is something more important than what economists and other believe it is. The past survives in our present days.
Read MoreCamilo Sanchez’ column about the stigma of homosexuality was published in the German magazine ILA.
Lieber Narco als schwul? Homosexualität ist in Kolumbien ein Stigma von Nelson Camilo Sánchez Ein Staat kann sich schlecht demokratisch und pluralistisch nennen, wenn seine Behörden ein Verhalten voller Vorurteile, Diskriminierungen und Stigmatisierungen an den Tag legen. Das scheint leider in Kolumbien das übliche Panorama zu sein, zumindest was sexuelle Freiheit und männliche Rollenmodelle betrifft.…
Read MoreCamilo Sanchez’ column about the stigma of homosexuality was published in the German magazine ILA (No. 35).
ILA, a German magazine, in its edition No. 35 of May 2009 published Camilo Sanchez’ column about the stigma of homosexuality in Colombia.
Read MoreUribe should stay
Those who think that the scandals of the Security Department and the “parapolitics” are affecting the President´s closest sphere, are wrong. Uribe will stay because he has no other alternative.
Read MoreA statute for the victims that got stuck on the way
Camilo Sanchez’ concept was referenced in the Reparations Dossier of the International Center for Transitional Justice-ICTJ.
Read MoreRacial discrimination in Colombia: alternative report submitted to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.
This report describes the effects of the State’s inaction towards the situation of constant discrimination both Afro-Colombian and indigenous peoples are subject to. Despite some progress in this area, the current circumstances demonstrate how the absence of public policy measures and affirmative action that enable ethnic groups to overcome marginalization and to eradicate the racial discrimination they suffer continue to prevail.
Read MoreThe State Council and the democratic Security
In the case of the soldier-peasant Guzman, hurt by the guerilla, the court failed against the army because it broke the law.
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