Yes or No to Peace? But What about Health Care?
We have all lived and suffered through the disproportionate focus on the topic of peace in the debates as the only and most important difference between the candidates. Little has been said about other substantive topics, like health care, education or the environment that are as vital as peace and in the end help realize it.
Read MoreHuman Rights: Gated Community or Ecosystem?
The global community of human rights advocates and scholars rightly criticizes the spread of gated communities worldwide, patrolled by private security and in which the elite find protection.
Read MoreShould They Search Me?
Tomorrow June 5th is the anniversary of the Edward Snowden revelations about Obama’s surveillance program. All the while, in our country we have had so much illegal wiretapping going on we could win an award. All the wiretapping makes some people blush. But why is there so much scandal surrounding some young techies who allied with political leaders want to create a society where there is nothing to hide?
Read MoreUribism’s “Peace without Impunity”
The ambiguities and contradictions of Uribism on peace. It is both paradoxical can tragic: the most popular and politicized topic in this election, peace, is at the same time the one that is less discussed.
Read MoreWho to Vote Against (II)
The presidential elections will be decided by undecided voters: the abstainers who doubt whether or not to leave their homes on June 15th, those who voted blank in the first round, the independents who voted for Peñalosa, the people on the Left who were left without a candidate and the conservatives respectful of the law who, with good reason, hesitate in following Marta Lucia jump toward Uribism.
Read MoreWithout the Right to Be Disenchanted
There are elections that are somewhat routine; they don’t entail major changes. But there are other that are decisive because they effect the destiny of a society for decades.
Read MoreThe Ethics of Responsiblity
In an interview published in this newspaper, Senator Jorge Robledo reiterated his idea that Santos, Zuluaga and Uribe are the same thing, and insinuated that to maintain ideological coherence and defend his principles, he will not vote for any of them.
Read MoreThe Doors that are Opening from Havana
The third agreement is of great importance for the country and for the construction of peace, because it substantially advances certain aspects that are key for Colombia.
Read MoreLess Jail, More Health
While in Colombia we remain immersed in the debate about the presidential elections and the second round, the agreement that they reached in Havana in the third point of the peace negotiations have passed unnoted.
Read MoreRegulating Drones to Protect Human Rights
Regardless of what we do not know about State drone surveillance activities, recent events in various States make it clear that regulation is needed.
Read MoreForced diet
The world reached a frightening number of people living with extreme hunger which nobody seems to care.
Read MoreSin and forgiveness
In Christmas times I always think that all religions, like people, have their strengths and their weaknesses.
Read MoreCopenhagen and the environmental justice
THE RESULTS of the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference are disappinting.
Read MoreSave a life at Christmas
Peter Singer argues that people can and should donate much more and thus could eliminate poverty in the world.
Read MoreWithout planet B
Many of humanity’s political changes have been generated by fear rather than ideas. Nowadays, current countries face a danger that comes from themselves, from their productive activity and the deterioration it causes in the environment.
Read MoreRadicalized opponents
The rhetoric of some government opponents show defects similar to those of the President.
Read More“Paper Norms” is considered one of the best books of 2009 by Arcadia Magazine.
As every year, December arrives, and with it the obligation to review the books that filled up the libraries of the country during 2009. These are the novels, books of short stories, essays, journalistic investigations, and the biographies that we recommend to readers.
Read MoreUribe and the pettifoggers revenge
Uribe’s country is one of lawyers. But one full of evil lawyers that are shrewd and disdain the Constitution and the law.
Read MoreDesobey or not-comply
For us (colombians) the offender does not comply with the Law, whereas for others he disobeys it. I ask myself whether that difference says something about the way we are (and that of the Spaniards).
Read MoreUN Rapporteur on the independence of Judges and Lawyers calls for combating discrimination
Gabriela Carina Knaul de Albuquerque, Special rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers, said in the Forum, where Rodrigo Uprimny also participated, that she hopes to work for the rights of people that suffer “discrimination and marginalization” in Colombia.
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