Support, Don’t Punish
The 26th of June, the United Nations celebrates the International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking.
Read MoreThree Lessons from the Elections
With Santos, the mandate for peace, democracy and hope rose to victory. Since mandates must be fulfilled and hope easily turns into disappointment, the goverment has just a short period of time to extract the lessons from the election and begin to make changes.
Read MoreCourts and Forced Displacement: International Lessons from the Colombian Paradox
Forced displacement does not only occur in places where the state has collapsed. It also happens in national contexts where the State does have the institutional capacity and favorable judicial frameworks to protect human rights.
Read MoreThe Victims’ Moment In Havana
The new peace agreement between the government and the FARC is a historic event, but it is just the beginning of a negotiation that affects us all, especially the millions of victims. What was agreed upon, what is missing and what are the biggest challenges pending?
Read MoreThe Other “Paisa” Country
In the last electoral round, Óscar Iván Zuluaga won in almost every territory from Cartagena to Caucasia and from the central mountain range to the top of the western mountain range.
Read MoreThe Protests about Water and the Silence.
Amidst the presidential elections, the mobilizations over water and the environment have begun to grow, revealing the government’s profound silence.
Read MoreCritical Juncture
Social scientists use a concept called “critical juncture” that shows how much is at play in next Sunday’s elections, despite what those who are promoting abstention or blank voting say.
Read MoreLet’s Talk about Religion
I want to argue for the importance of talking about religion as part of advocacy work. Not just to defend the freedom to practice it, not just in the context of religious war, and not just because religious organizations might be strategic allies. But rather, because faith in a God or gods is often a crucial part of the social worlds in which we work.
Read MoreFive Decisive Differences
There are at least five differences that separate the republican right of Santos and the extreme right of Uribe. The first one, is the peace process.
Read MoreThe Lesser Evil
In his opinion piece last Sunday, William Ospina said that if he had to choose between two evils, Santos and Zuluaga, he prefers Zuluaga because he is the lesser evil.
Read MoreHaiti and global prevention of disasters
There is something that can be added to the reflections and actions that have derived from the Haitian tragedy: the lack of coordination to meet the victims’ needs and the sense of lawlessness on the island.
Read MoreYoung informers, students at risk
Rodrigo Uprimny, Dejusticia’s Executive Director, is quoted as a source in explaining the situation resulting from President Uribe’s announcement of students as informers.
Read MoreA plan against racism
THE CURIOUS photo of President Uribe receiving in his farm the U.S. State Deputy, James Steinberg, has filled up the newspapers these days. What has not been discussed is an agreement signed at the meeting which may be significant for millions of Afro-Colombian and indigenous discrimination victims.
Read MoreToo many fines and few collection
These days, I took a cab to go downtown. The driver was one of those who like to talk. He asked me if I had news of the strike. What strike?, I said. The transport strike, he replied.
Read MoreProhibition equals regression
Colombia has recently made an amendment to the Constitution which bans the carrying and use of personal doses of narcotics. This report shows the changes involved in this reform and assesses the main implications, at least, at policy level
Read MoreThe concept of the Solicitor General.
THE INSPECTOR GENERAL’S CONCEPT on the re-election referendum is, from a strictly legal point of view, very poor because of serious methodological flaws, serious regulatory improprieties, logical inconsistencies, and a risky constitutional philosophy for those who defend the Rule of Law.
Read MoreRodrigo Uprimny and Mauricio García Villegas in Veredicto
Rodrigo Uprimny and Mauricio García Villegas faced Rodrigo Rivera in the program Veredicto of Canal Capital.
Read MoreReductio ad absurdum
POLITICAL POSITIONS have their typical ways of interpreting the Constitution.
Read MoreChavez and the U.S. bases
Chavez’s reaction to the loan of Colombian bases to the US was predictable. Yet, the reaction of the Colombian government was very surprising.
Read MoreAlbert Camus today
YESTERDAY, JANUARY 4th, was the 50th anniversary of the senseless death in a traffic accident of the theorist of the absurd, the French writer, and philosopher Albert Camus.
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