Marriage Equality or Legal “Apartheid”?
The Constitutional Court should define if in Colombia there is marriage equality, which is, if same-sex couples have the same right to marry as heterosexual couples; or if they can only aspire to formalize their union and their family with a different contract, a type of “solemn union.”
Read MorePutting Aside Fury
Colombia seems to be in a crucial moment in its history; a moment where anything is possible; from the best to the worst.
Read MoreEndless Lawsuits
If the media, the Comptroller’s Office, and citizens want to avoid the next plundering of public finances, they should concentrate on the endless lawsuits that multinational announce against the state based on FTAs.
Read MoreThe Generation without Conflict
The 23rd of March passed without notice. It has been tumultuous weeks where not only we must avoid the tedium of uncertainty, but above all those of my generation.
Read MoreA Referendum of Hate
A referendum against equality breaks with the Constitution’s basic structure and seeks to collectively humiliate lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trans people.
Read MoreThe State Created a Vicious Cycle for Coca Producing Communities
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States made a mistake with coca producing communities, as they not only incentivized an illegal market that turned them into part of a criminal network, but also never addressed the causes of the increase of drug trafficking in rural areas, and responded with simplistic solutions: bullets or eradication.
Read MoreCruyff and the Argentine Dictatorship
History has odd coincidences.
Read MoreThe Week of Penance
In Holy Week, people would confess.
Read MoreThe Secret of Peace
They promised us that today, March 23rd, the agreement to end the conflict between the government and the FARC would be signed, but it did not happen this way.
Read MoreMining vs. Restitution
When land restitution conflicts with the country’s mining policy, it is necessary to make decisions that solve these tensions, prioritizing victims’ fundamental rights.
Read MoreUruguay: the conspiracy of the reasonable people
In his poem “Los Conjurados (The Conspirators),” Borges pays homage to the birth of the Confederation of Switzerland. The poem says that in 1.291 “in the center of Europe, people were conspiring,” because “men of different lineages” made “the strange resolution of being reasonable”.
Read MoreAn eye on the military
Simultaneously to the negotiations in Havana, several reforms are taking place. These reforms aim at granting the military a series of very worrisome prerogatives for a post-conflict context.
Read MoreBefore intimacy dissapears
It was after taking a look at 10 notebooks in which the Egyptian authorities showed him the printed version of all his e-mails, since he had opened his Gmail account, that Ilan Grapel knew he had to change his defense strategy. In this moment, he confirmed that he was no longer the 27-year-old- young american-israeli that had travelled to Cairo to help refugees from Iraq and Sudan. Instead he had become a dangerous spy deprived from his liberty.
Read MoreLegal Peace Framework: the hearing before the Constitutional Court
A radiography of the diverse positions regarding the Legal Peace Framework and the alternatives that the Court has in terms of punishment of authors of atrocious crimes.
Read MoreA country of sophisticated lawyers
This has not been the year for lawyers. First, was the election of Alberto Rojas as judge of the Constitutional Court, in the midst of criticisms that remain unclear.
Read MoreDemocracy, intimacy and transparency
Could an old and respectable democracy, such as the United States, be adopting authoritarian principles, characteristic of totalitarianism rather than of a state under the rule of law?
Read MoreMedicine prices: ¿how is the pie distributed?
Amid the national controversy over the exorbitant medicine prices, last thursday the Ministry of Health Alejandro Gaviria met his promise. That day, and in the name of the National Commission of Medicine Prices and Medical Devices, the minister presented the expected draft of the circular 04 of 2013, through which he aims to regulate the prices of 195 medications corresponding to 37 molecules.
Read MoreThe institutional weakness of Colombian towns
Project institutions ad hoc for municipalities in Colombia
This text is a preliminary document of research, still in process, which will culminate in a book that will be published the first semester of 2013. This book offers input for a larger project, with a collective dimension, aimed at diagnosing the municipalities’ main problems. Through this assessment, the text will build indicators that allow a focus on the disparate action by the state in specific territories of the country. Therefore this text undertakes to interact with other documents that form a part of a collective project.
Read MoreAgainst reductionist visions of human rights
César Rodríguez Garavito answers Stephen Hopgood and Aryeh Neier, criticizing both sides of the debate due to a very simplistic point of view of the actors, the content and the strategies of the international human rights movement.
Read MoreThe abuse of Riopaila and Cargill
Read the reasons why the purchase was illegal and should be anuled.
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