Referendum and Adoption
Vivian Morales’ principal argument for a referendum on adoption by same-sex couples is based on an incomplete idea of democracy: democracy as majority rule.
Read MoreRight to Know Ranking Improves
It is a challenge for the State to successfully implement the transparency and access to public information law.
Read MoreMemorable Moment for Medicine and Minining
Few economic sectors have as much power as mining and Big Pharma.
Read MoreThe Right Against Sexual Preference Discrimination
Given the evidence of the arduous situation of people discriminated for exercising non-normative sexualities, the law appears as the quickest option in Colombia to guarantee their possibility to enjoy life fully.
Read MorePrecaution with Fracking
According to the Precautionary Principle (PP), the government ought to reconsider its decision to use fracking.
Read MoreCan the regional tribunal end the powerful’s impunity?
The constitutional reform known as the “reestablishment of balance of powers” continues its way through Congress.
Read More‘Ad Hominem’ Debates
After seeing the last debate between Senator Iván Cepeda and former President Álvaro Uribe I found myself thinking of the following Jules Romain quote: “Elite spirits debate ideas, ordinary spirits debate events, and mediocre spirits debate people.”
Read MoreNot Everything That Shines Is Gold
Even though it has been strongly questioned by local communities, the South African company AngloGold Ashanti continues with the idea to exploit the gold mine La Colosa in Tolima.
Read MoreMy North Is Your South
Why is it important to encourage dialogue across the Global South?
Read MoreSergio Urrego’s Mirror
Sergio Urrego didn’t commit suicide: he was killed by his school’s discrimination, the State’s inaction, and society’s indifference.
Read MoreThe reasons why the election of judges of the National Electoral Council can be null.
A nullity action filed by Dejusticia argues that the Congress missed legal requirements and therefore the election of the electoral tribunal could be repeated.
Read MoreInformation: in a crystal box?
On this 28th of September, International Day of the right to know, the access to public information in Colombia fails the test.
Read MoreThe duty of remembrance
The Czech writer Milan Kundera expressed the duty societies have to remember the atrocities in a beautiful phrase from one of his characters: “The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.”
Read MoreThe Pacific of Santos
PASSING BY La Toma, Cauca, is rubbing a bomb about to explode. Down in the distance are the town of Suarez and the Salvajina reservoir, which in 1985 displaced and changed forever the life of black communities that have inhabited the area for nearly four centuries.
Read MoreLand reform and restitution
The draft law on land reform proposed by the Government should be complemented with other instruments if the goal is a true transformation of agrarian relations.
Read MoreThe dilemmas of land restitution in Colombia
In this discussion paper we will argue that while there are some strategic agreements on the subject of land restitution in different sectors of society, there are also diametrical disagreements that have not been made explicit in the debate. This, in our opinion, may not only affect the effective implementation of the land restitution process, but can also close the door to a larger democratic discussion.
Read MoreJudicial reform and public discussion
It is good that the Government is open to hear comments on its proposal for judicial reform, as evidenced by the fact that this week it called a “table of justice” to discuss the reform with the participation of representatives of the Judicial Branch, political parties, universities and some civil society organizations.
Read MoreVictims law, second time’s a charm?
The three major arguments against the victims law actually are nothing but excuses to refuse an act of justice. Will the new government do what its predecessor declined to do?
Read MoreYes to conscientious objection
The Constitutional Court released the ruling which supports that the right to object the military service can be protected through a motion for legal protection or tutela. The sentence had been delayed by dissenting vote. Congress was warned to regulate the issue.
Read MoreWhat to do with the Supreme Judicial Council?
Inadequacy of the Government proposals to reform the Supreme Judicial Council.
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