Between All or Nothing
According to the government, the program “Merit Pays” (Spanish “Ser Pilo Paga”) is an educational revolution.
Read MoreBusiness and Human Rights in India: Time for a National Action Plan?
The economic development that the government is promising, and that a large majority of people in the country are hoping for, could spell disaster for certain communities if checks and balances are not put at the right place at the right time.
Read MoreReferendum about Subsidy for Bullfighting
With the Colombian Constitutional Court’s sentence about bullfighting in Bogotá, the matter becomes a citizen debate.
Read MoreIs There Upwards Social Mobility in Colombia?
With the Government announcement about the scholarship program for low-income students, social mobility and inequality has appeared once again in public debate in Colombia.
Read MoreThe Judiciary: Not Only Better Salaries But Also a More Horizontal Justice
One of the most famous and celebrated judges in the history of the American judiciary is Learned Hand.
Read MoreThe Decline of Grand Treaties? Thoughts after the Lima Climate Summit
Civil society pressure from the bottom-up, rather than top-down treaty obligations, is the only way to get governments to act on global warming.
Read MoreShould Prisons Be Privatized?
It is imperative for states to adopt concrete measures to address the structural deficiencies of prisons.
Read MoreWeakened OAS to Receive Almagro
The Organization of American States (OAS) was almost on the brink of announcing in newspapers “Looking for Secretary General for a prestigious international organization.”
Read MoreIn Favor of Children?
If the adoption by same-sex couples really presented a risk for the adoptee, I would oppose that possibility as adoption exists so that a child without a home may get a family, and not so much so that the adopting parents can have a child. The prevailing right, then, is the right of children to be adopted.
Read MoreRegarding Maps and Theories
A good social theory should not be overly complex nor too simple.
Read MoreConstitution, Court, and economists
A critical look at the impact the Magna Carta of 1991 has had on the Colombian economy.
Read MoreAbuses that exploit
The exploitation of natural resources is often so abusive and unfair as labor or sexual exploitation.
Read MoreAccess to justice for women victim of sexual violence.
The Alliance Initiative of Colombian Women for Peace, the Center
Study of Law, Justice, and Society, the Lawyers Collective José Alvear
Restrepo, the Colombian Commission of Jurists, the Consultancy for
Human Rights and Forced Displacement, the Corporation “Casa de la Mujer”,
the Sisma Mujer Corporation, the League of Displaced Women, the Working Group on Women and Armed Conflict, the Democracy, Gender, and Human Rights, and the Women’s Pacific Route, gathered at the follow-up table of the order issued to the Attorney General’s Office and the
invitation to the Prosecutor General’s Office related to the reserved annex of
Auto 092 of 2008 of the Constitutional Court, present the
fourth monitoring report entitled “Access to Justice for Women
victim of sexual violence”. The table has the support from the Office in Colombia of the High Commissioner of the
United Nations for Human Rights and UN Women.
In order to read the report, download the PDF.
Read MoreThe power of sexual harassment (III)
POWER AND SEX have always had an intimate relationship, literally.
Read MoreSex, lies, and disequilibrium
What can we conclude from the clear imbalance between a white and millionaire man, with confessed weakness for women and a black and immigrant woman thirty years younger, with questioned credibility?
Read MoreAngelino vs Vargas Lleras: the problem is now in the Court
The coverage of the fight between the Vice President and the Minister of Interior was incomplete.
Read MoreThe Court, protagonist defender of the Constitution
Dejusticia examines the reasons for the prominence of the Constitutional Court in the last 20 years.
Read MoreThe constitution in perspective (I)
20 years after, the 1991 constitution has proven to be the most important social and political pact to broaden democracy and to achieve institutional modernization in recent decades.
Read MoreThe failures of a success
Throughout the continent, drug policies have failed to reduce drug trade and have flooded the justice system and caused overcrowding in prisons. At the same time, social demand for more security prompted little strategic responses that have not achieved the expected results.
In this context, the Transnational Institute (TNI), the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA), and the National Institute of Advanced Studies (IAEN) convened international experts to participate in the Forum “Drug policies and public safety: facing the challenge in Ecuado”, which took place the 2d of March, from 9h00 to 18h00 in the IAEN auditorium located in Amazonas and Villalengua.
To see the intervention of Rodrigo Uprimny, executive director of the Center for the Study of Law, Justice, and Society -DeJusticia- watch the video.
Read MoreThe fate of natural resources in foreign hands
The FTA could serve as a legal weapon for multinational corporations, giving them more ability to influence environmental policy in Colombia.
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