Why Do So Many Latin American Women Still Have Unsafe Abortions?
Latin America is an unfortunate example of this trend, as 95 percent of all abortions performed in 2008 were unsafe, granting it the dubious distinction of the region with the highest unsafe abortion rate in the world, with 31 unsafe abortions per 1000 women.
Read MoreHIV Policy at a Tortoise’s Pace
Today more than ever we have the knowledge, technology, and capacity to stop the transmission of HIV and achieve a dignified life for the people that live with the virus. Unfortunately, in Colombia we’re going at a tortoise’s pace on this issue.
Read MoreJudicial Muddle
The lack of credibility in the judiciary is due, in large part, to its own legal mess.
Read MoreThis Is How Slavery Works in the Twenty-First Century
Contrary to popular belief, slavery did not end in the nineteenth century, not even at the beginning of the twentieth century.
Read MoreThe Ombudsman and Moral Judgement
The Ombudsman is institutionally a paradoxical public servant as he/she serves an essential role, but lacks coercive power.
Read MoreStrike at the University of Antioquia
University of Antioquia students have been on strike for a month and a half.
Read MoreTorture at a Police Station in Northern Bogotá
In the 21st century there are still parts of the Colombian police force that use torture, directing it to the most vulnerable populations.
Read MoreDefending His Post
The Ombudsman, who has done a good job carrying out his duties, unfortunately has become focused on defending his post.
Read MoreIn the Name of Islam?
Islam is not responsible for fundamentalist terrorism or the Islamic State’s war crimes.
Read MoreThe Pebble in the Shoe of Latin America
As the representative from Costa Rica expressed, participation “is the heart” of what brought them to the negotiation process.
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.
Read MoreVargas Llosas’ cultural aristocracy
After the well deserved Nobel, Vargas Llosa has turned into the ambassador of nostalgia. That’s how he was heard in the Hay Festival, when he repeated his moan for the extintion of intelectuals and the trivialisation of the culture, that he had launched in The civilization of spectacle.
Read MoreDemocracy and ICT
Do or don’t the new technologies of information and communication (ICT), such as the internet, the blogs or twitter, deepen the democracy?
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