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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.
Mining, land and Afro-Colombian communities
Mining and other economic projects have jeopardized the territories of Afro-Colombian communities. The Racial Discrimination Watch collected testimonies from experts and community leaders affected by this situation
Read MoreDiscriminatory counter-reform
The bill of political counter-reform that advances in Congress seeks, among other things, to remove the quota that forces the parties to conform their lists to public corporations (municipal councils or the Congress itself), with at least 30% of women.
Read MoreReggaeton-eros
What to do for the eros of reggaeton to avoid focusing only on the “gasoliiiiiiiiiiina”?
Read MoreAnother “little article” or goodbye to the writ for legal protection of fundamental rights
THE DEBATE ON THE project underway in the Congress that converts fiscal sustainability a constitutional principle was set on. In this sense, this reform has become “popular”. And indeed it is, for three reasons: it is unnecessary, inconvenient, and unconstitutional.
Read MoreColombia: complex violence (Interview to Rodrigo Uprimny)
Interview to Rodrigo Uprimny about violence in Colombia and the necessity of security policies that take into account the deeply unequal society we have in Latin America.
Read MoreDevelopment plan and human rights
TO WHAT EXTENT does the Development Plan (PND) of government Santos, who will be discussed this week by the plenary of the Congress, take a human rights approach?
Read MoreSantos, without gender policy
In one of the presidential debates last year, Sergio Fajardo asked the following question to Juan Manuel Santos: What’s your proposal for women in Colombia?
Read MoreThe abuse of states of emergency
With the Constitution of 1991 we Colombians overcame the permanent exceptionalism lived with the Constitution of 1886, as shown by the first report of Dejusticia on the 20 years of the Charter.
Read MoreAgainst 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.
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