Peace Paperwork
Seeing all that has happened these last days, it occurs to me that the peace process is going well, but peace is going poorly.
Read MoreThe Era of Plastic
“Love is what will outlive us,” Philip Larking wrote in 1956. The English poet did not know that what will actually outlive us – plastic – was being invented as he composed those verses.
Read MoreThe Ophthalmology of Social Sciences
I think it is time to change glasses.
Read MoreMy Body is Mine and I Decide
On May 10, 2016, the complete criminalization of abortion ended.
Read MoreThinking with Bubbles: Human Rights, Inequality and Poverty
Statistics are a good antidote to our prejudices. And if they are presented in a pedagogical way, and even in a fun way, they have a greater potential to question them.
Read MoreThe Demands of Former Attorney General
The demands of former Attorney General, Montealegre, have good intentions and the correct starting point, but his legal approach and conclusions are all wrong.
Read MoreThe Definition of a Human Being
Right now, when everything is so uncertain, perhaps we need to go back to basic ideas. Ideas such as that man is a rational animal.
The Struggle for Black Hair
The bodies of people from excluded groups play a relevant role in the way they experience discrimination.
Read MoreAn Ungrateful Prosecutor
One thing the three candidates for Prosecutor have in common: gratitude for the government to which they belonged and were nominated by. Gratitude is usually a virtue. As the theologian, Meister Eckhart said, “if the only words you say in your life are ‘thank you,’ it will be enough
Read MoreEqual Marriage Between the Lines
The Constitutional Court ruled that same-sex couples have a right to civil marriage, but much more can be read between the lines.
Read MoreA look at Women´s Rights in Colombia
El informe “Una mirada a los Derechos de las Mujeres en Colombia” es el resultado del trabajo realizado por una alianza de redes y organizaciones de mujeres y mixtas que vienen trabajando en su elaboración desde enero del 2013. Este informe recoge los aspectos más importantes de la situación de los derechos humanos de las…
Read MorePrivate policy?
In october of 2011 it was reported that in prison La Picota, specifically in the prison yard of the so-called “parapolítica”, the future of the regional elections was being decided.
Read MoreTransit: educate to not punish?
Death due to traffic accidents are as painful as inevitable, and have led to many politicians and citizens to ask for stricter punishment against those responsible for said accidents.
Read MorePeace dialogues and drugs: possibilities in between and beyond prohibition
Las negociaciones del gobierno con las FARC en La Habana abren un espacio para nada despreciable para limitar el impacto negativo del narcotráfico sobre la violencia y la democracia en Colombia, por lo que conviene intentar desarrollar ideas que orienten los debates en este campo. El propósito de este artículo es brindar algunas herramientas teóricas…
Read MoreA peace message from South Africa
Prison is not the most direct path toward peace.
Read MoreThe selectivity of the Inspector General regarding human rights
Inspector General Ordóñez [his first name should also be used at first] has a strange relationship with international human rights law. When he talks in opposition to the Legal Framework for Peace, Ordóñez seems to be the most obedient follower of the principles advocated by international human rights bodies. But when he talks about the rights of women, the Inspector General blatantly ignores the concepts and criteria of these same international bodies.
Read MoreFrom the farm to the enterprise
Without a doubt, this government is better than Uribe’s government, which managed the country as if it were the authoritarian taskmaster of a farm and had no shame in accepting alliances with dark forces.
Read MoreWrit of Protection for the Constitutional Right (acción de tutela) to health care and the tragedy of brand-name medicine
Writs for the protection of the constitutional right to health are a product of the demand for better access to brand medicine; these writs exemplify the tension between realizing the people’s right to health care and the countervailing need to maintain the financial sustainability of the health care system.
Read MoreTrivialising racism
Major advances have taken place to make the black population and the discrimination against them more visible, as was shown in the opening acts of the World Afro Summit in Cali and Cartagena.
Read MoreMistaken interpretations or a misleading message?
About the press releases issued by the Constitutional Court on the decision about the Legal Framework of Peace.
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