Uncategorized
Supreme Court Sanctions Discotheques in Bogotá for Racial Discrimination
On September 25, the Supreme Court dictated a ruling in trial o
Forgive Them because they don´t Know what they are Doing
I write from a small, miserable, farmhouse in the Department of Sucre where the only thing that the paramilitaries were unable to dominate was the natality rate.
Read More“Historical Ruling against Discrimination”: El Espectador
The Supreme Court ruled against three discotheques in Bogotá. The owners must present their public apologies to six afro-descendants that presented the legal action because of the denial of the owners of the discotheques to let them in. Furthermore the Court said that the National Government and the Local Government must rule this type of acts.
Read MoreWith women like that…
Sarah Palin, candidate to the Vice-presidency of the United States, can be one of the worst representative of the feminine causes.
Read MoreGod and Politics
The traditional hostility between the liberal thinking and religion does not let see that both have coincidences.
Read MoreDead Disappeared
This is a macabre country. The great headlines in the colombian news this week refers to the founding of bodies of disappeared people. One of them was the body of an 11 months baby killed by its own father, who had kidnapped the baby in order to extortionate his mother.
Read MoreSemana Speaks on the Lawsuit Presented by Dejusticia on the Right to to live in a House with Dignified Conditions
“Cramped” in the Social Interest Houses
A group of academics presented a lawsuit before the Constitutional Court against two laws from the regime that establishes the conditions to give houses to the poor. They consider these t be damaging, and in the contrary benefit constructors and owners of the land.
Colombian Laws allow the Social interest Houses to be of minimum 26 square meters. According to Fedevivienda and Dejustcia, imposing that minimum ends up to be the maximum offered in the market.
Read MoreVictims Statute: observations to the law project 157 of 2007
This document pretends to develop a proposal to include the gender perspective in the Victims Statute that is now in the Congress. The document argues from the practical and normative point of view why is it necessary and fundamental to include differential perspectives in the law project, in particular the gender perspective.
Read MoreIt´s Alive
Society must stop treating the forced missing people as victims of a second category.
Read MoreThe Financial Market, a Suicidal Institution?
As some people, there exists institutions that are “suicidal”, according to the suggestive expression of the philosopher Garzón Valdés. One of those institutions is the market, or at least, the financial market. Its suicidal tendency derives from the fact that if it´s abandoned to its own dynamic, without any ethical control or regulation, then the market tends to the auto´destruction.
Read More