Ebola: Tragedy or Injustice?
Funds only appear when these illnesses get close to Europe and North America.
Read MoreThe Prison Problem in Colombia
For Carolina Villadiego the problem in the country’s prisons stems from various causes, the judicial strike among them.
Read MorePat-Downs, Up to Discretion?
In Colombia we have not seriously debated in what cases the police in a public space can stop, ask for identification, or pat-down a person.
Read MoreIntellectual Impunity and Violence
What relationship exists between the following four individual sentences?
1) Paul Gauguin’s paintings are much more beautiful than Vincent van Gogh’s; 2) God exists as three distinct persons, Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit; 3) the protection of the environment should be done in such a manner that it does not compromise property rights; and 4) energy is neither created nor destroyed, it is only transformed.
Read MoreSecrets among Company…
Secrets serve the intimacy of its keeper. As such, last month Apple released the new iPhone 6 with a surprising technological feature: the possibility to protect your cellphone’s photos, contacts, and certain information with a password that no one else can have access to.
Read MoreBrazil’s Alternative
What is at stake on Sunday is more than the presidency of Brazil.
Read MoreLaw of Fallow Lands: A New Obstacle for Peace
The Fallow Lands Bill presented a few weeks ago by the National Governments disregards the agreements crafted in Havana regarding the integral agrarian development policy.
Read MoreWrongful Sentences in Latin America
Sentencing and sanctioning innocents is a severe failure on the part of the judiciary. Preventing wrongful sentences should be a priority, and thus knowing its causes is fundamental. However, to what degree is this occurring? The empirical evidence suggests it is quite common and deserves serious attention.
Read MoreFracking Lessons for the Global South
Before we undertake fracking, we should learn to listen to citizens, to make decisions about development based on the voices that live on the land and will be affected by those decisions.
Read MoreIncreasing Military Jurisdiction
The government approved in first debate the bill to increase military tribunals’ jurisdiction and thus revive the constitutional reform, which the Constitutional Court annulled last year due to procedural shortcomings.
Read MoreAnalysis on the victims law in Colombia
Nelson Camilo Sánchez analyzes the victims law in Colombia.
Read MoreCriminal law and social protest
As part of the publication “Is criminalization of social protest legitimate?”, Rodrigo Uprimny and Luz Maria Sanchez analyze the types of crimes that can be used to suppress the protests in the Colombian context.
Read MoreWhat is Uribe afraid of?
Bodyguards did not stop the student who approached the former President Alvaro Uribe to deliver a paper. It is an order that calls him to testify in the civil case against the Drummond mining power.
Read MoreThe Indians of Vargas Llosa
WINNING A NOBEL PRIZE IS DYING a bit: the peaks to conquer are depleted and one acquires the beatific aura of perfection that is only recognized to the deceased.
Read MoreViviane Morales: the good and the bad things.
At last we have a new Attorney General. What should we expect?
Read MoreWikiLeaks: the place without limits?
The long and interesting entry of Lucas Ospina, the neighbor blogger, as well as thousands of articles written on the subject, force me to confess my internal contradiction regarding the status of hero or thief of the brain of WikiLeaks, particularly in respect of the means and limits to the release of data by the Australian and his team.
Read MoreThe challenges of the new Attorney General
Viviane Morales will not have much time to celebrate her election as Attorney General since the challenges she will have to face are varied and difficult. It is impossible to analyze them all in one column, reason why I will highlight the four challenges that seem most important.
Read More“Extreme blackmail” in the Western world
Annika Dalén, researcher of Dejusticia, talks about the burqa ban and the “extreme blackmail” in the Western world due to the threats France faces for banning the use of the burka in public.
Read MoreDrug policy and prison situation in Colombia
This paper demonstrates how drug policy in the country tended to a progressive hardening along the twentieth century and, notwithstanding, failed to be effective in reducing supply and in combating organized crime networks dedicated to trafficking. In contrast, they have had a major impact on the prison system and in the lives of thousands of people who have lost their liberty due to drug-related crimes.
Read MoreThe Supreme Court: sheep or wolf?
URIBE’S SUPPORT TO THE ASYLUM of his intelligence director rounded the image of the Supreme Court that he and his followers had wanted to sell the country: that of a partisan court, composed of judges whose robes are just the sheepskin covering ferocious wolf politicians.
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