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A defense of the Peace Framework
Last year Congress passed the constitutional reform known as Legal Framework for Peace. This year, in the light of the dialogues in Havana, the Constitutional Court will have to define whether the possibility to drop, in some cases, research and legal sanction of crimes committed within the armed conflict, as the reform contemplated, implies or not a substitution of the Constitution of 1991.
Read MoreRites, forms and substance
¿How to achieve an adequate equilibrium between the form and substance of religious, social or legal rites?
Read MoreJustice and sluts
Women sexually assaulted are not guilty for the violence committed against them, instead it is their attacker.
Read MoreBarranquilla, white porcelain
A fact and case makes you think about racial discrimination in Barranquilla, now that the city turns 200 years.
Read MoreThe Court’s gift to clientelism
How the Constitutional Court did not help to the transparency in the election of its new member.
Read MoreEgalitarian marriage and pluralism
An enormous advance for equality and pluralism would be for the Congress to approve egalitarian marriage, this is, broadening to same- sex couples the possibility of getting married, which we, as heterosexual couples, already have.
Read MoreThere is no free lunch
Some weeks ago the Inter-American Court of Human Rights held a meeting in Medellin following an invitation from the Colombian government. It was not a gratuitous invitation.
The government created an opportunity to send two messages to the court regarding how it expects this body to issue rulings about cases related to our country in the future.
Read MoreLaw, love and politics in egalitarian marriage
While same-sex marraige is prevailing in the United States, the legislation on the topic is staggering in the Colombian Congress.
Read MoreThe political balance of the reform to the OAS system of human rights
“Despite almost two years of reflection and discussion, countries in the region arrived with no agreement to the General Assembly of the OAS called to define the future of the Inter American Commission on Human Rights(IACHR).” This was how different media outlets headed their coverage of the marathon meeting of chancellors organized during March 22nd in Washington D.C.
Read MoreIs God secular
It seems natural that does of us who don’t believe in gods or are not particularly religious support secularism, this is, the principle according to which the colombian State should be separated of religions and be neutral in this field.
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