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Colombia counts with the necessary tools to confront the enormous impunity facing sexual violence in the armed conflict. It is time to put them into practice.
Read MoreFive Strategies to Combat Racism the United States Should Learn from Latin America
Rather than addressing inequality, the dismantling of race conscious and affirmative action policies in the US has further entrenched it, leading to increased poverty, lower home ownership, and lower university enrollment of black Americans.
Read MoreThe Global Climate Summit from the Inside
One of the invitees to the UN meeting about climate change reflects on the feeling of failure for a handful of soft regulations on one hand and the hope that 1% of the governments will follow through with their commitments on CO2 emission reductions.
Read MoreUruguay and Guantánamo
The Guantanamo detention center symbolizes the way in which a democracy should never fight democracy.
Read MoreThe Hot Climate Cash
What are the challenges of the Climate Green Fund? What should be the purpose of this money? In an interview with El Espectador, Andrea Rodríguez, Legal Counsel for Climate Change of AIDA, answers these questions and says that up until now expectations have not been met.
Read More“Indigenous Peoples Give Solutions to Climate Change”
The UN Rapporteur for the rights of these peoples says that they can help mitigate the impacts of global warming and ensures that it is time for Governments to include them in their discussions.
Read MoreLawyers and Sociologists
One would hope that there would be a certain correspondence between the diplomas that are awarded by universities and society’s needs.
Read MoreThe Decline of Big Treaties
Lima – Perhaps the most lasting lesson that we the assistants of the global climate change summit leave with is that with it ends the era of big treaties.
Read MoreDrug Trafficking and Political Crimes
A new controversial topic of the peace process has circulated the public debate in the past few days: the possibility of considering “drug trafficking” as a crime related to political crimes.
Read MoreIndigenous Peoples Request Independent Economic Fund
Interview with Cándido Mezua
In the COP20 in Lima, Peru, the leader of the Mesoamerican Alliance of Peoples and Forests assures that indigenous communities are indispensable in protecting ecosystems. “We need resources in order to protect the environment,” he says.
Against the “Lleras Act”.
“We build too many walls and not enought bridges” said Isaac Newton,one of the greatest creators of history. A proof of this is the draft of the “Lleras Act”, which would build a formidable wall against the movement of materials and the creative internet use in the country.
Read MoreThe dispute over natural resources in Afro-Colombian territories
Through the case study of Buenos Aires and Suárez (Cauca), this document seeks to provide empirical and legal evidence that support specific recommendations to ensure the rights of black communities.
Read MoreThe incarceration of AIS officials
The ruling of Monday which decided to arrest the former officials of the Ministry of Agriculture is arbitrary.
Read MoreMedieval sexual aberrations
The sexual assaults of a. El Taladro at the Sierra Nevada question us aboout sexual consent of girls in areas under the control of a barbarian armed group.
Read MoreIn defense of everyone and everything
With my colleagues of Dejusticia we have discussed for some time the use of gender inclusive language.
Read MoreThe Inspector General against the WHO
THE Inspector General may have his own view on abortion.
Read MoreWhat money shouldn’t buy
The case of the Nule reveals how in Colombia all things can be obtained with a good deal of money and influence. Is it possible to prevent this kind of story from being repeated?
Read MoreHector Abad’s refusal of affirmative actions
In one of his recent columns (“Negroid, Indian-like, and whitish”), Hector Abad reiterated his criticism of the affirmative action, at least the one that is founded on providing certain benefits based on race or ethnicity of people.
Read MoreLove stories against racism
FINALLY there is an open debate on race and racism in Colombia. It all began with a love story.
Read MoreJustice attacked, indifferent citizenship
WE SHOULD disguise the judges of owls and maybe that way their murder would move the country, wrote to me indignantly Diego Bolivar, an official of the Lara Bonilla Judicial School, three days after the murder of judge Constance Gloria Gaona in Saravena.
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