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The right to charge water
Some days ago a video re-emerged in which the President of Nestlé says that water is not a right, but must be privatized.
Read MoreThe locomotive without tracks
The announcement finally became a reality: the mining locomotive was left without its last tracks, due to the Government’s incapacity to impulse a new mining code in replacement of the one that wasn´t approved by the Constitutional Court in 2011.
Read MoreEgalitarian marriage after June 20th?
Congress definitely did not approve egalitarian marriage, this is, it did not extend to same-sex couples the right to get married that, us, heterosexual couples currently have. But it did not approve another kind of contract allowing same-sex couples to solemnize their family union. Therefore the question about what is going to happen since June 20th, given that the Constitutional Court ordered as consequence to a lawsuit we presented, along with several organizations, against the exclusively heterosexual definition of marriage in the civil Colombian law, and pointed out the following in the resolution: “If Congress has not issued the corresponding legislation by June 20th, same-sex couples can go before the competent notary or judge and formalize and solemnize their contractual link”.
Read MoreJurists, historians and the Constitution
Jurists are usually bad historians. But historians are usually jurists when they establish the meaning of a norm using historic methods.
Read MorePhantoms of the XVI century in the Senate
The discussions in the Senate are not far from the controversies of the conquest epoch.
Read MoreThe new face of the Constitutional Court
Last week the Senate elected, with a comfortable and announced majority, the lawyer Alberto Rojas as magistrate of the Constitutional Court for an eight-year period, in other words, until the beginning of 2021. With 61 votes, Rojas defeated the expert in criminal law María Lucía Zamora (who obtained 19 votes) and Alejandro Linares (supported by seven senators).
Read MoreRegarding the Legal Framework for Peace: how much should one judge?
The debate between the public prosecutor and the attorney general illustrates two antagonistic positions regarding the selection criteria that should establish regulations for a statutory law to define the concrete application of transitional justice once a peace agreement has been signed.
Read MoreOur weather injustice
Yesterday, World Earth Day, we listened again about data that we prefer to forget during the rest of the year. If we keep consuming and contaminating as we are right now, the planet’s weather can increase four degrees in the next three decades, which can put at risk of extinction half of the species.
Read MoreElectoral organization and democracy
Democratic strengthening in our countries requires an independent electoral organization with technical capacity that can guarantee transparency and legitimacy of elections.
Read MorePlagiarism in the Congress and the Lleras 3.0 Law
If Congress approves the Lleras 3.0 Law, which the Government plans to pass, the first ones to go to jail would be the same members of Congress, because many of their bills are plagiarism from experts’ studies, foreign legislations and even Internet websites.
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