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 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.
Read MoreThree myths about the consultations with indigenous and afros
In an unfortunate article, El Tiempo announces that several Ministers will gather themselves tomorrow with the Constitutional Court to “look for ways out of the juridical tangle” of the previous consultations.
Read MorePrison crisis
A brave and well founded tutela fo the 56 criminal judge of the circuit of Bogota put salt on the wound regarding the prison situation of the country, because she concluded that in the Prison Modelo of Bogota an inconstitutional state of affairs (ECI, for its initials in spanish) and ordered strong measures to confront the situation, one of wich says that no more condemned accused may be received at this center.
Read MoreLessons of the fall of the law Lleras 2.0
Several of us took notice once ti was approved in the Congress: The Law Lleras 2.0 would not pass the exam in the Constitutional Court
Read MoreFake witnesses and bad management of the criminal policy
El fenómeno de los falsos testigos pone en evidencia graves fallas de gestión en la Fiscalía y en el Consejo Superior de la Judicatura: decisiones que se toman a ojo, falta de pruebas técnicas, de investigación dirigida y de visión estratégica. Problema de gestión Los escándalos de falsos testigos en los procesos contra el estudiante…
Read MorePrecisions on drugs and law
The controversy untied by the proposal of the Ministry of Justice of establishing a personal dosis for synthetic drugs (similar to the one that exists for marihuana or cocaine) has been full of conceptual faults. It is a good thing then make some precisions in order to have a reasonable discusion in this regard, that is hard and disunited.
Read MoreWomen, Drugs and Prisons
Crimes related to drugs have been “feminized” in Colombia. By analyzing the composition of the prison population, it is evident that most of the women imprisoned are there because of these types of crimes, and the percentages seem to be increasing.
Read MoreAn unjustified delay
This monday 4th of february a colombian girl celebrates her fifth birthday with her family – her mother and her younger brother.
Not long ago, they celebrated another anniversary.
Rojas Operative vs Freedom of expresion
Programa de Semana en Vivo, en el que participó Rodrigo Uprimny, debatiendo sobre las tensiones entre libertad de expresión, interés prevalente de un menor de edad e intimidad, a raíz de la película Operación ·E, suspendida por una tutela de Clara Rojas.
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