PrEParing for the Neediest: How Battling Inequality is at the Heart of the Fight against HIV/AIDS
If we do not rethink our national and global healthcare strategies in terms of access and cost, PrEPwill likely deepen health inequalities pending its introduction in the Global South.
Read MoreReconciliation and Democracy
Victim delegations’ presence in Havana have focused the debate about peace on the question of reconciliation.
Read MoreMore Problems than Solutions
When I read international news I remember the following phrase by Henri Duvernois: “Everything could be better, but also everything could get worse, thus, everything is alright.”
Read MoreMany Lectures, Little Schooling
As a fellow blogger, Mauricio Albarracín, aptly stated, Sergio Urrego didn’t commit suicide: Sergio was killed by discrimination.
Read MoreWhat is the current state of the Afro-Colombian Curules?
The Higher Council of the Judiciary has in its hands an important decision to guarantee the political participation of Afro-Colombian communities.
Read MoreUsing Global South Strategies to Solve “Third World” Problems in the Global North
Activists can look to strategies activists from the South employed to claim ESCR rights before courts recognized their justiciability.
Read MoreA Rational Debate about Bulls
Bullfighting is “a civilizing act, the confrontation between reason and force, in which reason comes out triumphant,” says the Public Prosecutor Ordóñez.
Read MoreA Story about Men
The 12 members and two reporters of the “historical commission on the conflict and its victims,” created by the committee of La Havana, are respectable academics that know well the Colombian war.
Read MoreTwo Mothers, One Daughter: A Family
Two events last week gave much to talk about in Colombia. In the morning, a female minister from Santos’ cabinet spoke on a radio program about her relationship with another female office minister. These declarations unsettled a sector of society that still today reproach a same-sex couple so close to power and a lesbian education minister.
Read MoreImportant Trifles
When I go out on the street in Bogotá and I pass through busy areas, it bothers me that people bump into me, or even brush past me, without apologizing or saying “I’m sorry.”
Read MoreAgainst Facebook
JUAN GABRIEL VASQUEZ published last Friday the best critique I know of social networks.
Read MoreOn the International Day of the Disappeared
YESTERDAY, August 30th, was the “International Day of the Disappeared.”
Read MoreHelp me and I’ll help you (or helped you?)
The election of judges of the National Electoral Council will be a good opportunity to understand if political tradition weighs more than hope of change. Will the government and the coalition support the Party of National Integration?
Read MoreThe myths of the paper book
THE MOMENT FAR more revealing of the Bogotá Book Fair was the greeting of Nicholas Negroponte, the internet guru, when beginning his lecture as special guest:
Read MoreWikileaks in the Constitutional Court
It is not convenient for the Constitutional Court that confidential information about ongoing cases continues leaking.
Read More“I finally understood the iceberg of para-politics”
Claudia Lopez became famous for her research on para-politics which revealed links between politicians and paramilitaries and resulted in the judicial accusation of 97 congressmen.
Today, in the Book Fair, she launches the second chapter of this research. “And they re-founded the country … how the mafia and politics reconfigured the Colombian state.”
It is the result of an extensive research coordinated by her but realized by 15 researchers from the New Rainbow Corporation, Group Method of Luis Jorge Garay, Congreso Visible, Dejusticia and Moe. This is an interview about their results.
Read MoreNew drug policy?
I WISH PRESIDENT SANTOS would rethink the drug policy and abandon the fundamentalism that characterized the previous government, which froze the debate on this issue for eight years.
Read MoreThe Inspector General’s crusade
Voluntary interruption of pregnancy in the three extreme circumstances is part of human rights. Therefore, its guarantee and assurance is responsibility of the Inspector General, like it or not.
Read MoreTime for equal marriage rights
The time has come for the Constitutional Court to decide the right to marriage of same-sex couples.
Read MoreJudicial reform: Uribe compared to Santos
Some of Santos proposals are debatable and can be problematic. However, the tone of the new president is different from the one Uribe used and could allow reasoned debate.
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