What to Do with Human Rights?
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I would like see a human rights discourse with the participation of more people, more ways of knowing, and that is more local.
Read MoreRegarding the Constituent Assembly and Posada-Carbó
A recent op-ed by Posada Carbó (El Tiempo, Feb. 18th) critiques my argument about the possibility of a constituent assembly in the post-conflict. His critique, as is his style, is careful and relevant and broaches an important debate, which deserves to be discussed.
Read MoreHume’s Farmers
In his Treatise about Human Nature (1739), David Hume narrates the following episode between two farmers:
Read MoreSolution Journalism
Now that all the heads have rolled— the Police Chief, the Viceminister, and the journalist that published the video— I fear that what I commented in my previous op-ed is happening.
Read MoreThe Reality of Early Pregnancies in Colombia
Childhood and adolescent pregnancy can be reduced with more education and less ignorance.
Read MoreThe Truth about the Stork
Sex was at the center of the news last week.
Read MoreThe Domesday Book
Almost a thousand years ago, the then King of England William I took a significant decision, one of which we Colombians can learn from, if we want to have a more solid state and a more efficient and equitable taxation system.
Read MoreCamilo Torres’ Week
Camilo Torres was a priest, poitical leader, and university professor.
Read MoreAfter Resigning
We are used to seeing resignations daily. First the Ombudsman, then the Interior Viceminister, now the Director of the National Police.
Read MorePeñalosa Is Painted There
Peñalosa is recuperating public space, isolating informal street vendors, sex workers, and homeless people so that the rest of the city doesn’t see them.
Read MoreFrom Rio to Catatumbo there are many differences
In his Op-Ed in El Espectador, César Rodríguez Garavito points out some lessons about the “Brazilian spring”, which according to him, could be useful for the Colombian case. But Rodriguez’s optimism and intense emotion contrast with the public perception regarding the protests led by farmers in Catatumbo.
Read MoreAn eye on privacy
In an imperceptible but safe way, others’ lives are becoming public or property of the state, thanks to Internet.
Read MorePeace, law and rights
A peace agreement will be very difficult, almost impossible, if FARC believes that the peace process is merely a political issue without legal limitations.
Read MoreEquality, not favors
Quotas in favor of women are not a favor, but instead a way to guarantee real equality of women in the political sphere.
Read MoreDawn for Cordoba’s great women
Dawn was breaking on June 29th in San Pelayo. The dark blue of the night dissapears and makes way to a score of bands dragging rivers of locals and visitors.
Read MoreRelocating legal general inspectors
The legal inspector generals are redundant and expensive posts. Therefore these should be suppressed or at least radically reduced.
Read MoreThe South American spring, from Brazil to Colombia
If the cordial Brazilians woke up, why the nonconformist Colombians do not protest?
Read MoreMany dummies and few organized crime barons
During the discussion of the new Penitentiary Code, the two most talked about problems of the penal system have been the impunity and overpopulation in prisons. A recent study carried out by Dejusticia shows that these two issues might be related and that strategies exist to overcome them jointly: the efforts of the criminal policy must be addressed to research and sanction what is most grave.
Read MoreThe crisis of justice in Colombia
Some months ago, when the discussion about the failed “justice reform” initiated, the constitutionalist Rodrigo Uprimny said: “The Colombian justice is ambiguous and paradoxical. Neither it is excellent nor it is collapsed. It has things that work well, but others are terrible”
Read MoreMilitary criminal justice jurisdiction: the reform’s threats
Until now the military is the winner of a imaginary legal war, which generates risks for civil society and the aftermath of the conflict. The attempts to guarantee independence and impartiality of military justice are insufficient to address these risks.
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