Peru’s Two Faces
Peru has one face for the international community in the COP 20 and another that its citizens see. Analysis by Dejusticia from Lima.
Read MoreAll the Weight on the Combatants?
To definitively end a war one must create a balance of responsibilities. The sentence against Salvatore Mancuso and a recent book provide clues to understand why some try to place all of the blame on combatants, exonerating the war’s makers.
Read More“The Private Sector Should Face Climate Change”
Dejusticia interviews Adriana Soto, ex-Vice Minister of Environment and Director of The Nature Conservancy for Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela.
Read MoreThe Guardians of the Future
The indigenous communities of the park Yaigojé-Apaporis, in the south of Colombia, deserve to be among the figures of the year for their work against mining and in defense of mother earth.
Read MoreFalse Positives and the Military Court
The Constitutional Reform proposal that aims to expand the military’s court jurisdiction, driven by the Government and supported by almost all political forces, probably would imply that many of the so-called false positives, which today the civilian judiciary processes, will pass to the military, with huge risk that they remain in impunity.
Read MoreEducation and Equity
The Saber exam results 11 disclosures in the past weeks are not very encouraging.
Read MoreFertilizer Cartel?
After the discovery of the toilet paper cartel last week, it is easier to distrust and question the pricing behavior of other sectors in Colombia.
Read MoreAddicted to Carbon
Earlier I wrote that the environmental policies of the Colombian government are schizophrenic: while it promises at the UN to end deforestation in the Amazon rainforest in 2020, it announces that it will open the region to mining in 2022; a few months after committing to the OECD’s environmental recommendations, it approves “express licenses” that contradicts them.
Read MoreAfrocaucana Women’s Voices
The Afrocaucana women’s mobilization exposes a conflict in which legal and illegal actors vie for natural resources in the ancestral lands of ethnic groups.
Read MoreSouth-South Migration
Regional governments should start by accepting the existence of racism, and reject that because of the mestizo character of the population we do not have problems of racism
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.
Read MoreThe unfortunate Afrocolombian uprooting
While in 2008 Afrocolombians were 16% of the forcibly displaced population, in late 2010 they became 23%.
Read MoreAre “affirmative actions” negative?
In one of his recent columns (“black certificate”), Hector Abad criticized the so-called “affirmative actions,” deeming that they tended to reproduce racism because they classified people according to their race.
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