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 MoreThe Moderate Voice Outlines Camilo Sánchez Op Ed “A Gross Mistake”
Obama Win Could Cost Colombia Dearly: Semana of Colombia
After Colombian President Uribe’s embarrassingly obvious support for Republican John McCain during his campaign for the U.S. presidency, the people of that country are now grappling with the damage that such support is likely to have done to relations with President-elect Obama’s Administration.
Read MoreSuppress Violence against Women
The celebration, this 25th of november of the “International Day for the Eradication of all Forms of Violence against Women” must help us remember the gravity of this phenomenon in latin America, specifically in colombia.
Read MoreThe Measure of Things
There are many things you have to measure in a society: taxes, vacations, prison penalties, the presidential period, interest rate, legal age, military expenses, minimum wage salary, social interest housing and much more.
Read More“How is it to do justice under cross fire”: Report from Semana Magazine on Dejusticia´s investigation
State agents told Dejusticia their stories about the investigations and judicial rulings that they have delivered in regions where armed illegal groups still have control and power.
Read MoreA Gross Mistake
The democratic victory in the United States could send a very expensive bill to the colombian government.
Read MoreThe Drug Dealing Business of the Pyramids
¿How is it possible that pyramids gets us on such a mess? Even though many believed in them because of necessity or for being naive, the most common case is that of “taking advantage” the colombian way wanting to do money the easiest and fastest way. This is what grandma´s from the Antioquia region say:
“go and make money honestly. If you can´t, go and make money.”
Forums
In a democratic society and pluralist everyone must be able to say what they want, even though when what they say is openly with no support at all.
Read MoreHearing at the Interamerican Commission of Human Rights on Racial Discrimination
In October 23 of 2008, Dejusticia, the Observatory on Racial Discrimination from Los Andes University, the Colombian government and others were present in Washington, at the Interamerican Commission on Human Rights discussing issues of racial discrimination and access to justice in Colombia.
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.
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