For a serious abortion debate
Last week, Nicolas Uribe, a columnist of this newspaper, recalled the importance of confining ourselves to serious arguments in the abortion debate.
Read MoreUniversity and tolerance
One of the most difficult questions to resolve in a society open to dialogue is: how far should we tolerate the intolerant?
Read MoreThe equality of the equals
Aristotle said that fair or equal treatment was all about treating equal cases equally and different cases differently.
Read MoreThe list of our sorrows
I DON’T MEAN TO spoil the party of the 20th of july, but I think a celebration like this should not only be a reason to exalt our glories (rather rare, in fact), but also an occasion to reflect on our mistakes as a society or what we have not been able to achieve in these two centuries of republican life.
Read MoreHow are we the Mexicans?
All societies (like people) at some point ask for their identity.
Read MoreConstitutional optimism
Faith in God is not the result of reason but of will.
Read MoreTwenty years of the Constitution
NEXT MONDAY, the 20 years of the 1991 Constitution will be celebrated.
Read MoreWhy obey the law?
Now that President Santos’ first year of legislature has ended and many rules have been voted and promulgated, perhaps it is worth asking one of the oldest and most fundamental questions of law and power theory: what makes people obey the law?
Read MoreThe two black hands
This week the tensions between President Uribe and former President Santos heightened. According to the media, what caused the deterioration were Uribe’s statements to the newspaper La Tarde of Pereira, where he said that the present Government wanted to pass him off as corrupt.
Read MoreThe Constitution and its critics
MANY HAVE praised this week the 1991 Constitution on the eve of the celebration of the twenty years after its promulgation. This should not make us forget, however, that in Colombia there are people who oppose the Constitution.
Read MoreEl Espectador talks about the new investigation from Dejusticia “Judges with no State”
Tales of how the actors of the armed conflict mine the works from judges and prosecutors in Colombia.
Read MorePublic Interest Corporation from Chile, by its director Nicolas Espejo Yaksic, supports the lawsuit Dejusticia presented against the laws that regulate social interest housing.
Dejusticia presents the Amicus Curiae sent by a Public Interest Corporation from Chile that supported the lawsuit against the laws that regulate social interest housing in Colombia.
Read MoreJuridical Ruses against Victims
Government seems determined to keep away victims caused by state agents from the project on the Statute of the Victims Rights that is now before the Chamber of Representatives for approval. That is why everyday it invents juridical ruses to justify what evidently is a form of discrimination.
Read More“Government is Asked to take ´urgent´actions in order to stop discrimination against afro-descendants”: EFE
Washington – Organizations on the defense of the human rights denounced the “structural” discrimination against the afro´descendant community in Colombia and asked for an “urgent” action from the State in order to stop wit this situation.
Read MoreComisión Colombiana de Juristas supports Dejusticia`s Lawsuit against Laws on Social Interest Housing
Document presented by the Comisión Colombiana de Juristas before the Constitutional Court supporting the lawsuit by Dejusticia on a dignified living.
Read MorePolitics and Faith
Never before in a developed occidental democracy, I believe, a religious group had so much political power as the one who had the Evangelical Christians during the 8 years of the presidency of George Bush.
Read MoreFalcons, Pigeons and Human Rights
Anyone who has followed the recent polemic on the human rights policy may be thinking, that in fact, this is a crazy country.
Read MorePurge to the Army: Needed but it is not Enough
There are thousands of documented cases on military collusion with armed groups that state strong reasons for dismissing those involved immediately.
Read MoreAnti-elitism
Few weeks ago, while putting forward his campaign in Toledo streets in Ohio, Barack Obama was approached by a man named Joe Wurzelbacher, plumber, who questioned the kindness that his economic plan could have with small entrepreneurs like him.
Read MoreVictims from Law
Why are there so many requisites for reparation if when the massacre occurred we had none?
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