Colombia’s Environmental Near-sightedness and Clumsiness in ECLAC
In contrast to the majority of countries that want a treaty that guarantees the right to the free access to information in Latin America, Colombia has done everything in its power to make the instrument simply a declaraton of principles without teeth.
Read MoreThose without Rights
The prison population has had its political rights and liberty curtailed legally, but the rest of its rights are illegally violated.
Read MoreEconomic Thinking, Economists’ Education and Human Rights
Economic thinking and education must have an approach that protects what really matters: human rights
Read MoreThe Palace and the Bogotazo
The taking and re-taking of the Palace of Justice was not only were atrocious and painful events; they were also moral and institutional ruptures that generated a vicious cycle of violence, from which we are still not free.
Read MoreViolentologists
In 1987 the administration of President Barco hired a group of academics from the National University in order to do a study on the causes of violence in Colombia.
Read MoreThe Injustice of Beef
“To eat a big chunk of beef is one of the most efficient forms to validate and take advantage of an unjust world,” judged recently writer Martín Caparrós in one of the best op-eds I have read in years.
Read MoreTo Grow!
Urban agriculture not only provides healthful food, but it also helps to ameliorate food insecurity and build environmental and consumer consciousness.
Read MoreJudicial Election Goes Unnoticed
The entire year what was most discussed in my country was the famous “Balance of Powers Reform.” However, its implementation process goes unnoticed, likely because we are a country of short memory.
Read MoreLeonidas or On Santanderean Dignity
I have never seen such a happy loser.
Read MoreWhy do Women Bear the Costs of Drug Policy?
There is nothing more erratic than a policy focused on persecuting the easily exchangeable parts of the drug trafficking market.
Read MoreColombia, the Vatican and Human Rights
If the posture of the Holy See is so clare on abortion and equalitarian mariage, why do these topics remain in the bilateral agenda with Colombia?
Read MorePunitive addiction
In Latin America it is legally worst to traffic cannabis or cocaine with the purpose of being sold to someone who wants to consume it, than to rape a women or kill someone voluntarily.
Read MoreClimate change’s tsunami
If you’re not terrified by what happened in the summit on climate change in Doha the reason is you’re not paying attention. “Which summit, where?” – you may be probably wondering -. “What happened?”
Read MoreDejusticia’s comments to the Constitutional Reform to the Military Jurisdiction
Notes of public interest by Dejusticia regarding the constitutional reform to the military criminal justice jurisdiction, which constitute an academic explanation to this issue.
Read MoreEgalitarina marriage
The only real reason to the rejection to the egalitarian marriage is the repulsion to homosexuality. All the other arguments are only week shells that hide this aversion.
Read MoreA military jurisdiction, broaden de facto
Those who have opposed ourselves to the reform that expands the military jurisdiction are told that we are wrong: that that broadening doesn’t exist.
Read MoreGeneral Prosecuter by nock out
It must be recognized: in Congress, the old politics of Prosecuter Ordóñez won by nock out to the new one of the social networks, independent opinion and civil organizations.
Read MoreThe non reasons for the extended the military jurisdiction (III)
I think I have shown in the last two columns that neither the technical justifications (absence of military knowledge of ordinary judges) nor the normative ones (absence of clarity on the rules that regulate the military combat) are acceptable to extend the military jurisdiction.
Read MoreChronicle of an announced reelection
The reelection of the Ombudsman was obvious. But hopefully in his second period he will devote himself to observe the jurisprudence and not his believes.
Read MoreAnd now, taxes to the retirement’s pensions?
When Minister Cárdenas proposes to tax the retirement’s pensions, ones heart shrinks. Imagine the neverending lines of older people, charging their monthly installment in the unfortunate last days of their lifes. And, to crown it all, they would now be forced to pay taxes for what their saved with the swet of their brows.
However, that’s not the case. The proposal goes in another way: it is about charging 5% over pensions starting at 10 millions pesos a month. The intention is to invert the actual decline of the pensional system, where there are, not only in little opportunities, great differences between what is contributed as a worker and what is received as a retiree.
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