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 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.
Read MoreBlack certified
I was fortunate to read Héctor Abad’s recent column on race and racism after visiting the Apartheid Museum, here in Johannesburg. My bewilderment was profound.
Read MoreAre they ruining Soho?
With pictures of a transsexual and a critique of the Catholic pedophilia the magazine seems to have let down its readers.
Read MoreWhat a nice family!
With this case, five relatives of senior government officials of government Uribe have been convicted.
Read MoreElectoral census without abstainers
THE ARTICLE of the political reform that eliminates abstainers from the electoral census is unconstitutional and exclusionary.
Read MoreReal flowers on women’s day
What we need is not a day to reinforce stereotypes, but a day to remember that we have equal rights.
Read MorePower asymmetries in Street 93 with 13
The process of applying for a Colombian visa has several obstacles that make it fun for people who enjoy suspense. Imagine being one of them.
Read MoreFrivolous readers or frivolous media?
Daniel Samper Pizano published in El Tiempo on Sunday a column about the banality of the readers preferred news of this newspaper.
Read MoreThe Constitutional Court protected once again cultural diversity.
The intervention presented by Dejusticia proposed arguments taken into account by the Constitutional Court.
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