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 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?
Read MoreThe high functionaries’ pensions: ¿a decision to frame?
Lawyers usually call “decisions to frame” those that do not produce any effect in the reality, that its utility doesn’t go far beyond a simple decoration. Well, it is possible that the Constitutional Court will soon dictate on the pensions of the congressmen and other high functionaries of the State will be one of those that are only good to frame. Unless the Court gets into the discusion of the already acquired rights.
Read MoreThe Rose of India
The six violators destroyed her intestins with a metal stick. During the horror, the university student may have seen the luminous blemish of the elegant neighborhoods from New Delhi through the windows of the microbus of death. So far, so close: the Rosa Elvira Cely of India. With her dead, the indignation of the biggest democracy of the world woke up as in an electrical shock.
Read MoreEquity and priviliged retirement’s pension
Is it fair that all the colombians, even the poorest ones, finance with our taxes the payment of the high pensions that the congresmen and judicial magistrates receive?
Read MoreRich garbage, poor garbage
If we don’t want to throw the world to the garbage, we have to learn to recicle it.
Read MoreThe National Park Tayrona, or environmental policy through Twitter
The environmental policy of the Government look as capricious as the tweets. For the third time in only two months, the ministers and the president are improvising mends to the abuses that the social networks and the media denounce.
Read More“The responsibility of thinking”
That is the title of a very valuable book compiled by Alfredo Rocha and published in 2008 that collects 21 texts of well known academics that wrote to rend homage to Guillermo Hoyos Vásquez, one of the most recognized filosofers in Colombia, who unfortunately died last week.
Read MoreStop having a hard time! You are in one of the happiest countries of the world (again)
The last Win-Gallup survey on the (in)happiness in the world counterattacks. Colombia is placed in the first happiness place of the world.
Read MoreVenezuelan constitutionalism
The unedited situation that has presented itself in Venezuela due to the sickness of Chávez has caused a bitter constitutional in the neighbor country. To some, the decision of giving continuity to the living government until the possession and oath of Chávez is a clear fraud to the Constitution. It has been even been spoken of power usurpation and Coop d’Etat. To others the decision of preserving the popular will expressed in the elections in wich Chávez was elected is not violating the Constitution but honoring it.
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