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 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.
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.”
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