Darker Than Neymar
When a reporter asked Neymar if he had been discriminated against based on his skin color he replied, “Never, neither on nor off the playing field. Because I’m not Black, right?”
Read MoreHow Fracking and the Shale Gas Revolution Undermine Green Energy Development
The global South should avoid being drawn away from green clean energy sources by the false promises of natural gas and fracking.
Read MoreThe Rule of Law Solely Justifies the Lawsuit against the Inspector General’s Reelection
Some pundits, especially via twitter, have argued that the real reason that Dejusticia, as an institution, and I, personally, have filed this lawsuit against, alongside other organizations, the reelection of the Inspector General Ordóñez is because Dejusticia would have had annual contracts totaling 700 million Colombian pesos (350,000 USD) with Inspector General Maya, which would have been eliminated by Ordóñez.
Read MoreA Luther for Football?
Could it be that football needs some sort of Luther-like figure that can try to reform and above all make more ethical the Papacy of FIFA, even at the risk that it could lead to a veritable football schism? It’s a metaphor worth exploring.
Read MoreThe Military Service Registration Certificate and the High School Diploma
Every year I spend a few days in the Aguadas (Caldas) municipality, in a small village called Salineros located on the peak of a mountain; it provides, to my knowledge, the best view of the Central mountain range.
Read MoreIt’s Time for Transparency
In Havana peace negotiations make progress while in Colombia there is no ceasefire.
Read MorePrison for Protecting the Land
“Other indigenous communities in Peru, in similar cases regarding the protection of their land, are afraid to protest because the ghost of the Baguazo is always there.”
Read MoreThe Internal Morality of Football
Is there a morality in football and, if so, could it serve as a source of moral teachings?
Read MoreA New Development Plan?
While the Government has revisited the mining development plan because it has not performed as well as it originally hoped, a new development plan seems to have come to the fore: “fracking” or unconventional gas extraction. We still have time to stop it.
Read MoreHomeland, God and Football
The Romanian poet Lucian Blaga once said: “after having discovered that life is without meaning, what we are left with is to give it one.”
Read MorePresidential election: for a national debate agenda
THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION should not only be the selection of the ruler, but also a space for public deliberation of collective affairs since this strengthens democracy and makes possible a more just society.
Read MoreAvailable brain time
The best evidence of T.V.’s great power is that it is never forced to question what it does.
Read MoreThe Congress we deserve?
After the parliamentary elections, everybody enlists their bets for the presidential ones. But before starting the next race, it is worth pausing a second to think about the kind of Congress we will have from July 20 and what we can expect the next four years.
Read MoreBittersweet elections
I AGREE WITH THOSE WHO, on the one hand, rejoice for the triumph of the Green Party in the elections of last Sunday but, on the other hand, worry about the results of the PIN . In this op-ed I would like to add something to this bittersweet balance.
Read MoreTransitional justice from below and with a gender perspective
The document aims to contribute to the debate on how to face the atrocities committed in the context of armed conflict in Colombia. In order to do this, it presents a theoretical proposal by which it aspires to enrich the dominant approach in the field of transitional justice through: i) the inclusion of perspectives sensitive to the differential effects of violence in the lives of victims, including gender, and ii) a better articulation between the processes from above and the realities and local initiatives.
Read MoreReparation in the voice of Women from the Regions
The document is a joint construction that reflects the articulation of several organizations working directly with women victims of violence in the context of armed conflict in Colombia. In particular, it collects the work results carried out in the regions by: the Popular Women’s Organization (OFP), the Colombian Women’s Initiative Partnership for Peace (IMP), the Corporation Sisma Women, and Narrating for Living, as operator of the Network of Women in the Montes de María. Dejusticia made the drafting of the document from the inputs provided by these organizations.
Its aim is to contribute to the reparation debate in Colombia and, in particular, to emphasize the importance of designing, implementing, and evaluating public policy in the subject with a gender emphasis. This is, recognizing that in the armed conflict there have been forms of violence directed against women and the need to satisfy women’s rights.
Read MoreLand restitution to women victims of armed conflict
The document aims to contribute to the discussion on the implementation of the right to restitution for women victims of the Colombian armed conflict. To this end, the paper presents a diagnosis of the main difficulties in the Colombian context. Additionally it presents specific proposals that show the importance of incorporating into restitution public policy sensitive approaches to the various forms of discrimination that affect them and which may constitute real barriers to the satisfaction of law.
Read MoreThe centenary of the constitutional reform of 1910
THIS YEAR IS NOT ONLY the bicentennial of our independence but also the centennial of the 1910 constitutional reform, one of the most important, least studied and least remembered in our history.
Read MoreInterview to César Rodríguez Garavito in “Ámbito Jurídico”
For the first time in the history of the Law & Society Association, its board will consist of a Latin American teacher: the Colombian lawyer César Augusto Rodríguez Garavito, elected for the period 2010-2012.
Read MoreAt least honest people
WHAT IS MOST IMPORTANT, having good laws or having good rulers? Greeks discussed this 25 centuries ago.
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