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 MoreTo Congress, for equal marriage!
Finally, the Constitutional Court acknowledged that same-sex couples are family and soon will be able to marrie.
Read MoreSecret data
Francisco Gutierrez rubbed salt in the wound we, Colombian social researchers, silently carry like a scar of the job.
Read MoreState, Constitution and Geography
The State has failed to control the whole territory, and this is the fundamental problem of Colombia. This lucid text examines the roots and the consequences of the historical neglect of the periphery, the intent of the 1991 Constitution to build state in these regions, and the serious need to strengthen its municipalities.
Read MoreWedding bells ring
We had to wait until the last possible day to see if the Constitutional Court would say I do to equal marriage. For over two years this elusive Court has had society on tenterhooks with its reply. Last year it evaded the issue arguing procedural excuses, but today is the deadline to say yes, I do.
Read MoreIs the debate on the constitutional reform to justice starting?
The debate on the constitutional reform to justice appears to be starting as the government will present its project in coming days, after trying unsuccessfully for several months to harmonize it with the high courts.
Read MoreYes or no to gay marriage?
Until next Friday can the Constitutional Court rule in depth on the possibility of same-sex couples to join legally.
Rodrigo Uprimny, executive director of the Center for the Study of Law, Justice, and Society, and José Galat, the rector of the University of La Gran Colombia, debate over gay marriage.
Read MoreSpeech by Rodrigo Uprimny in the public hearing of the Constitutional Court on the health system.
On Thursday July 7 the Constitutional Court held a public hearing on the enforcement of the decision T-760 of 2008.
To see the intervention of Rodrigo Uprimny see the video.
Read MoreThe 1991 Constitution in perspective (II)
In his column on July 7, Eduardo Posada Carbó considers it is “a poor defense of the 1991 Constitution,” to argue that it breaks with the Colombian constitutional tradition and is distinguished from ones before because it was not the imposition of the victors.
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.
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