Lawyers and Justice
The State has greater interest in regulating certain professions over others. That depends on how much it affects public interest.
Read MoreLaw of Fallow Lands: Great Business through the Conquest of the Last Agricultural Frontier
The sociologist Alfedro Molano, one of the few scholars who studied peasant migrations in the national geography, tells many stories about the rural countryside that are, in fact, a single one.
Read MoreThe Reason Does Matter
The traditional division between work and roles assigned in rural communities have made it so that women historically have had little to no access to property or land.
Read MoreAnimals and the Left
I have never understood why the solidarity and compassion based on equality that inspires the Left usually stops short when the victims are not people but rather animals.
Read MoreHuman Rights Protection: From Without to Beyond Borders
If violations don’t care about borders, the tools to address violations should not be limited by them.
Read MoreProperty and Authority in Lands Without Lights
How is it possible for communities such as these to be so rich in land, and yet lack the most basic of infrastructure?
Read MoreEbola, Tragedy or Injustice?
Ebola was discovered in 1976 and since then has had a score of outbreaks, always with high death rates.
Read MoreOne Step towards Indigenous Citizenship
Sometimes crucial change occurs silently. While the rest of the country debated the minutia of the balance of powers reform, the Government paid its two-decade old debt to indigenous communities: the promise of the 1991 Constitution to grant them the right to administer their territories and organize their affairs with greater autonomy. Without much ceremony, a decree with an unforgettable number (1953) took this past October 7th a memorable step towards the restoration of full citizenship rights to indigenous peoples.
Read MoreFour News Headlines and One Problem
Looking over the news this week I paused to read four ostensibly unrelated news stories, each one discussing events in different parts of the world.
Read MoreJudging the Bad Man
If the debate about the “Super Court” that would judge judges and high-level bureaucrats is so terrible, it is because it encapsulates some of the most complex problems of constitutional design.
Read MoreEarly childhood education: law and investment
There are few investments as just and economically effective as public expenditure to provide an early and qualified education to children from poor and discriminated families.
Read MoreTaking seriously the women victims of conflict
Colombian women have been disproportionately affected by armed conflict. In this week of non-violence against women, it is important to analyze how the state should advance through legislation and public policies to eradicate violence against them.
Read MoreThe forced displacement of Afro-Colombians.
This monitoring report assesses the degree of implementation and government compliance orders issued by the Constitutional Court in 2009 (Auto 005), to protect the rights of Afro victims of forced displacement.
Read MoreWhat if the British had colonized us?
THAT IS THE QUESTION THAT Marianne Ponsford launches in SoHo.
Read MoreFor a plan
Santos’ new nominees for the Attorney General’s Office have a better profile than some of the people Uribe had used us to. Now, what is important is that the one selected will formulate a policy of serious criminal investigation.
Read MoreRecorded op-ed. Dejusticia presents the book The Altered State.
Javier Revelo, of Dejusticia, presenting the book The Altered State.
Read MoreThe Palace of Justice and the 1910 reform
By a strange irony, last week held both the 100 years of the constitutional reform of 1910 and the 25 years of the double occupation of the Palace of Justice.
Read MoreHere’s the new Attorney
Independence from governments and political forces is the fundamental virtue of a good Attorney for Colombia. So, even though the Court could choose anyone from the group of three put forward, I dare to propose my “ranking” of eligibility.
Read MoreThe Colombian State is “Altered” according to DeJusticia
In their latest research, the organization DeJusticia puts the magnifying glass on the main problems of Colombian democracy: clientelism, mafias and institutional weakness.
Read MoreMedicines: secret business
In three months, this administration has done more to address the health crisis than what Uribe did in eight years.
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