The Good Racist
The good racist has evolved so much that sometimes he cannot see color, the color of blacks who have been displaced, blacks who have disappeared or blacks who lack freedom. He is incapable of questioning why is it that the gym he goes to, the restaurants in which he eats and the places where he buys things are all racially homogeneous.
Read MoreLand Restitution in Free Fall
During the first term of the Santos administration, the Victims and Land Restitution Law was passed (Law 1448 of 2011).
Read MoreCan the Peace Accord Be Put to a Popular Vote?
Some have argued that whatever popular vote mechanism for the peace accord is unconstitutional, as it would not be legitimate to subject a peace accord to a citizen vote.
Read MoreSidewalks and Territorial Peace
Written from Puerto Asís, Putumayo.
Read MoreParamos and an Ecological Constitution
The Constitutional Court’s ruling about the National Development Plan is much more than the prohibition of mining in paramos.
Read MoreMarriage Equality is Unstoppable
Last February 7th was the nine-year anniversary of the Constitutional Court’s ruling recognizing the legal existence of same-sex couples and their inheritance rights through the institution of “de facto marital unions”, or popularly known as free unions.
Read MoreThe Peace Agreement in Colombia Matters, and it Could Set an Example for Entrenched Conflicts Elsewhere
The international community is engaging productively in a peace processes whose success is looking more likely by the day. And it’s worth taking note, because this peace negotiation process is yielding important innovations to balance justice and peace, and to focus the process on victims’ rights and reparations.
Read MoreWe Don’t Understand Feminism
Blu Radio, Héctor Abad and Mauricio Pombo show us that in reality we don’t understand feminism.
Read MoreThe Alarming Rate of Imprisoned Women for Drug-Related Offenses
In Latin America the use of prison as a response to drugs have disproportionately affected women.
Read MoreReferendum and Constituent Assembly
One thing is to think about bringing together in a couple years and in a post-conflict context a constituent assembly, with a limited mandate, to define the essential issues that have not been adequately dealt with in Congress, like rural land management. Another very different thing is to think to bring together a constituent assembly to conduct a referendum and implement the peace accord with the FARC.
Read MoreThe democratic approval of peace
The agreement about land indicates that the negotiations at Havana are advancing. This begs an important question: an eventual agreement between the Government and FARC,should be submitted to a form of endorsement or democratic approval, such as a popular consultation?
Read MoreSub-rules to access or reject access to information
In this document, Dejusitica collected the principal legal sub-rules, derived from an analysis of judicial opinions that were issued between the years 2006 to 2013 by the Constitutional Court and the Inter American Court of Human Rights. Dejusticia restricted its analysis to opinions related to access to information, the restriction of information due to public interest, particularly when this restriction is based on rationales such as security and the functioning of justice.
The applied methodology involves a critical follow-up of the judicial task, selecting the sub-rule or normative principle that served as the core for each jurisprudential decision and, at the same time, constitutes a linking norm for another similar actual situation. Additionally, the methodology includes opinions that do not necessarily include the ratio decidendi or a unique reason that explains the decision of the case, if the cases present reasonable parameters to follow, that will be useful for the solution of similar future cases.
Read MoreThe silence of the Pacific Aliance
The Pacific Aliance will be the main commercial bloc in America.
Read MoreProcuring the revocation
Counteracting the Law and common sense, the Ombudsman office pretends that the mayors that are threatened from revocation do not stand up for their government nor oppose to those who pretend to shorten their period.
Read MoreA visa for another country
I read in El Tiempo that the Colombian passport “opens increasingly more doors”, meanwhile I gather a bunch of documents required by European countries to grant us a visa. This is the third Schengen visa that I apply for in six months, because each one is useful for the short period of a trip.
Read MoreThe political participacion of former members of FARC: A thorny road, but viable
Otorgar, restringir o condicionar el ejercicio de derechos políticos a los ex guerrilleros será parte obligatoria de la transición hacia la vida civil una vez se produzcan los acuerdos de paz. Análisis jurídico, político e histórico. Balas por votos “Todos los procesos de paz exitosos en el mundo llevan a una transformación de los grupos…
Read MoreConsumers of all countries, united!
The collapse of the factory, which caused the death of hundreds of workers in Bangladesh rises transcendental questions, as César Rodríguez showed in his last Op-Ed.
Read MoreThe Superior Council of the Judiciary: an opportunity for a bad design of
The operation of all justice depends on this body, which however lacks- almost on purpose – of democratic independence, technical capacity and the necessary representativeness.
Read MoreMade in Bangladesh
If you believe the recent death of more than one thousand seamstresses in Bangladesh is a foreign issue, look at the label of your pants.
Read MoreA bittersweet anniversary
Today is the seven-year anniversary of the right to abortion in Colombia. A right in full compliance and, therefore the state has the obligation to guarantee the provision of this service.
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