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Recommended document: a comprehensive plan for the protection of victims and witnesses from serious human rights violations and breaches of international humanitarian law (differential gender approach).
This document presents proposals from civil society organizations to facilitate the implementation of the Sentence T-496/08 of the Constitutional Court.
Read MoreThe Mothers of Belem
The biblic narration made by Mathew the Evangelist is concise: to the noise made by the magicians about the birth of the King of Jews, the jealous of Herodes appeared who saw his kingdom weaken. He used the magicians to seek for the child in Belem, “so I can also go and adore him”, but the magicians never came back to Herodes, which made him furious and ordered one of the most sadly remembered murders of the history. The murder of innocent two year old children in Belem and it’s surroundings.
Read MoreThe Victory of Turbay Ayala
“Not everyone had the luck to have 20 years in May in 1968 in Paris”, wrote the french intellectual Régis Debray.
Read MoreColombia Vs. Rest of the World
Appointing Perea as ambassador in South Africa because the World Cup will be hosted there, is just an example of the myopia of the colombian foreign policy.
Read MoreVictims and Christmas
An impacting Christmas Card, promoted by Claudia Lopez, Antanas mockus and Rudolf Hommes, invites us to reflect and act, so in Colombia there won’t be more false positives, which means, there won’t be more assasinates executed by agents of the Public Force. The Letter is accompanied by a moving picture, where the mothers of Soacha show portraits or memories of the sons they lost due to the army.
Read MoreKouchner and Rama Yade
HENRY KISSINGER said that diplomacy was the art of ambiguity, with what gave count -in a ambiguous manner- of the existing gap between what the world of the international relations does and says. But as everything here, there are also exceptions, it means, diplomatics that say what they think with frankness and straight out.
Read MoreThe End of the Economic Orthodoxy
The actual economic crisis is making rethink those who believed had the revealed truth on the role of the State in the market
Read MoreColombia is Africa as Well
“The first that calls the attention is the light. Everything is illuminated with light. With clarity. From the sun.” That´s how Ryszard Kapuscinski,a legendary Polish reporter, describes the first impression of an european when arrived to Africa. And that´s how he opens Ebony, the penetrating book that narrates his adventures as a press correspondent in search of the soul of this black continent.
Read MoreDoubt Praise
We live in a world in which we know very little of much. I not only refer to life´s big questions: where do we come from? where are we going? how big is the universe? who live in it?. I refer mostly to the little we know about the actual world, the societies to which we are part, the problems we have and the solutions we need.
Read MoreIrresponsibles
With their language and ideas, sometimes the columnists contribute to the intolerance that exists in the country.
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