The Coal Industry Has to End if We Want to Meet the Goal of Global Warming
We want climate justice now!
Read MoreColombia and South Africa
I suspect that many of those who consider the victims and justice agreement reached by the FARC and the government unacceptable, due to it supposedly permitting impunity, are also Mandela admirers and the South African transition. This is paradoxical as its contradictory to admire Mandela and consider unacceptable this agreement with the FARC.
Read MoreThe Physical Therapy of Peace
Due to tendinitis in one of my legs from falling off my bike, I had to visit the doctor.
Read MoreLoose Cannon
The whole world thinks the battle is lost. That there were wiretaps in the 60s, in the 90s, last year, and that there will be next year as well. That we are all wiretapped and that there isn’t a commission that could fix the police.
Read MoreTo Die in Detention
This past 5th of December, between 9:15 and 10:20 p.m., a trans person died while she was detained by the Police of the Permanent Justice Unit (UPJ) of Puente Arandoa in Bogota.
Read MoreThe Magic of Words
Names and their meanings define the relationship between social movements and states.
Read MoreThis is How Slavery Works in the 21st Century
The International Labor Organization (ILO) estimates that there are approximately 20.9 million slaves, of which 26 percent are children. This is more enslaved people than during any other point in history.
Read MoreOpaque Justice (II)
The creation of governmental bodies in the judiciary, emerging from the constitutional balance of powers reform, has hardly been transparent, which is worrisome, as the tangible functioning the judiciary highly depends on the quality of those bodies.
Read MoreWriting and Thinking
In a recent op-ed Piedad Bonnett regretfully discusses just how common poor writing is in Colombia.
Read MoreThe Planet in Brackets
Here at the climate change summit in Paris, the future of the planet is in brackets.
Read MoreThe Hilton, the Tayrona and the abuses of hotels
In a historical decision against the Hilton Hotel of Cartagena, the Council of State put hotels that take over the beaches back in their place. It also reminded other who wish to do the same – like the Hotel Las Américas in Cartagena os Sis Senses and Los CIruelos in the Tayrona National Park – that the public space is for the use of everyone.
Read MoreEqualitarian adoption and surrogate
The discussion about adoption by same sex couples or equalitarian adoption is different to the debate on surrogate, this is, the possibility for a couple to pay, though not necessary, to a women to use her womb for the procreation of their baby.
Read MoreThe land that the Incora plundered
The plundering of lands was caused not only by ilegal actors, but also by the State, according the first decision on restitution in the Cesar.
Read MoreKenia and Colombia: so close, so far
The distance of the equatorial paralel that takes us from Colombia to Kenia is so big, that it would seem that the two countries have nothing to do with each other. But, we have not only borrowed drums from them, skin color and tubercules. Nor is it only their emerging economy from wich other countries in Africa depend on, nor the conflict that is generated with the extraction of natural resources that puts us in similar situations. This african country is close to us in many issues in which, for now, one could remark the Political Constitution and the role of the judicial branch.
Read MoreFuture university
Universities haven’t changed much during the last one hundred years. The idea is still the same: presencial lessons directed by a professor that repeats, semestre after semester, the contents of a class; written exams to discipline students periodically; programs and professors separated by the disciplinary frontiers of a century ago: still textbooks that loose their actuality as they are published.
Read MoreThe legal limits to the reforms to the Statute of the Interamerican Comssion of Human RIghts
Document on the process of reform of the Interamerican Comision of Human Rights, signed by 139 academics of different universities.
Read MoreLess flowers and more recognition
Colombia should abandon the logic of flowers, celebrations and congratulations. Women’s day wasn’t made to do an homage to the “female atributes” but to remember the inequalities and discrimination that women all around the world have to face.
Read MoreSantos and gender equality
The celebration of women’s day, last friday, is a good opportunity to think about the politics of the government to erase gender discrimination agains women. The balance is mixed.
Read MoreSteping toes in the healthcare reform
The announced healthcare reforme shows that the Government is up to step on the powerful toes of the responsible of the crisis of the system. We still have to wait and see the details of the law, but starting now, the radical opposition of sectors as the EPS is a sign that the project is going in a good direction.
Read MoreOur debts to Angélica
We still owe Angélica Bello and the victims of the conflict recognition and the warranty of their rights.
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