New Documentary on Coal and Human Rights in the Global South
“Promises of Lavender” explores the stories of individuals and communities affected by coal in India, Colombia, South Africa and Egypt, with a focus on the violations of their rights by the industry.
Read MoreCoal Is Not in Decline; It Is Thriving in the South
The Global North may be enforcing strict limitations on coal to curb their emissions at home, but somebody else is eating it up.
The Santadereanos That Did Not Love Women
The murder of women occurs before our very eyes, in our neighborhoods and at any hour of the day.
Read MoreAn Index and a Thumbs Down
With 50/100 in the Freedom of Expression and Information Index, it’s clear that it is not only risky to be a journalist in our country, but also that all of Colombia is poorly informed.
Read MoreDo We Know What Is Happening with Colombians’ Money?
Government budgetary decisions, when they are not inclusive, end up costing lives.
Read MoreI Also Denied Being Black
Threshold for Peace
A recurrent attack towards the so-called plebiscite for peace is that it would be a rigged tool that seeks to force the citizenry to accept the possible peace accord, as it would reduce the threshold to only to 13%, with which only a minority of four million of the 33 million people that make up the electoral census could impose their vision of peace on all of Colombia.
Read MoreIncendiary Language
Elides J. Rojas, a Venezuelan journalist, published in January 2013 a list of the insults that Chavismo has used against the opposition. These are only some of them: nation sellers, rogues, thiefs, worms, dogs, flies, insects, vipers, rats, cowards, necrophiles, blood-suckers, drug addicts, mercenaries, quacks, leeches, puppies of the empire, soulless, pro-yankees, satraps, wretches, bacterias, terrorists, war dogs, messengers of death, intellectual dwarves, spirit killers, sackers, child eaters, slavers, grave diggers, carrion, history’s garbage, etc.
Read MoreA Bloody Difficult Problem
If you are troubled by the climate summit in Paris, you are not the only one.
Read MoreA Human Rights Based Approach to Climate Change in Latin America
We cannot forget to humanize climate change and remember that those who have contributed to the least to the problem are and will continue to be the most affected.
Read MoreThe strategy of Colombia before the Interamerican Court of Human Rights in the case of the Palace of Justice: ¿poor or malintentioned?
En my previous entry, I showed, without pretending to be exhaustive, some punctual but huge mistakes and contradictions of the pledge of Colombia before the Interamerican Court of Human Rights in the case of the Palace of Justice. In this entry, as I had said, I will analice the strategy of defense. I again apologize for the extent and the excess of technico-juridical arguments, but I think that this examination is necessary.
Read MoreThey are still disappeared
Colombia sustains before the Interamerican Court of Human Rights that it cannot be condemned for the disappereances of the Palace of Justice, because there are no proofs that show that this 12 people left the Palace alive and that they were disappeared ny a state’s agent. But this thesis is false, both a probatory and at a normative level.
Read MoreWoman can have it all?
Why are there so few women in directive positions? Is it because of the rules of the game that are discriminatory or because of decisions that they make themselves that relegate them to the middle management?
Read MoreArrogant, bur juridically very poor
Few times have I read a document as offensive, in a human sense, as the answer brief of Colombia, elaborated by Rafael Nieto Loaiza, in the case of the Palace of Justice before the Interamerican Court of Human Rights, where the responsibility of the Colombia is judged for the disappearances that happened after the reclaim. And that is why the indignation about that brief of many commentarists, is justified. Indignation that I share.
Read MoreAn offensive defense
The defense of Nieto Loaisa before the Interamerican Court on the case of the Palace of Justice is truly offensive: instead of being a goor juridical representation of the Colombian State, it is an attack to the national justice, and his brief is an offense to the intelligence, the truth and the victims.
Read MorePalace of justice: The best defense is attack?
In this case before the CIDH, the nation decided to disappear the disapeared.
Read MoreCarnival and sex
The campaigns on safe sex during the Carnaval de Barranquilla are an example worth following for the rest of the authorities in the country.
Read MoreMore myths on the consultation with indigenous and afros
The misinformation of the ministers pf Agriculture and of influent journalists such as Isabel Rueda and Felipe Zuleta about what’s going on in the territories of indigenous communities and afros is surprising.
Read MoreDrugs: The sophisms of the Prosecuter
The prosecuter, by opposing himself to the proposition of the Farc of legalizing the ilegal crops, repeated again his thesis that states that behind the legalization of the drugs are the financial and pharmaceutical companies, that are seeking to take over this profitable ilegal market, of about U$400.000 millions.
Read MoreInnecesary imprisionments (by pressure?)
The recent liberation of expiry of terms of alias Biófilo, he who was captured with lots of noise due to the scandal for the fake desmobilisation of the Block Cacica Gaitana, shows the pernicious role that preventive detention can play on our penal system.
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