Abortion and Public Opinion
What happened this week with the attempt to bring charges against Carolina Sabino shows the schizophrenia that surrounds the issue of abortion in Colombia.
Read MoreReady for the ICC?
A denunciation of the highest levels of the Venezuelan government before the ICC does not have, at least with the information available today, a solid legal foundation.
Read MoreBlack Man, a Pat-Down
In the almost ten years I have worked in Racial Discrimination WAtch, I have never heard a diagnostic and protest so eloquent and correct like the spontanous speech of the cabinet-maker Carlos Angulo after being randomly searched by the policy in Bogotá’s city center.
Read MoreNow We Say Yes to the IACHR?
When we play along with others’ aim to weaken the protection of human rights, sooner or later our own are weakened.
Read MoreThe Police’s Not So Reasonable Doubt
The perverse form in which police department sets goals induces the police to commit arbritrariness against low-income populations.
Read MoreThe Illegality of Venezuela’s Mass Deportations of Colombians
More than 1,000 Colombians have been deported simply for being Colombians in a certain area of Venezuela. According to the ILC, the collective deportation of foreigners is prohibited.
Read MoreThe Infamy Against Carolina
The Public Prosecutor’s Office violated Carolina Sabino’s right to privacy in three ways: it investigated her regarding a private matter that did not concern third parties, it allegedly tried to use a family conversation as evidence, and revealed this information to all Colombian media.
Read MoreWelcome, Inter-American Commission
The de-financing of the IACHR is not an accident, but rather the most effective method of governments to block it or avoid its decisions.
Read MoreThe Ayotzinapa Group
Radio shows discussing opinion polls that showed that 97 percent of the population knows about the case, and 80 percent do not believe the version of the National Attorney General.
Read MoreIntroducing the Dejusticia Blog Series: Politics, Challenges, and Opportunities of the Inter-American Human Rights System
This series aims to give readers a more in depth analysis of human rights violations and developments in Latin America than news coverage provides.
Read MoreEnvironment for peace
So that the longed for peace may also require a reconciliation among the violentologists. And a more broad politics agenda than the one that is foreseen in the agreement between the Government and the FARC.
Read More¿Should the Prosecuter remove himself from office?
If the Prosecutor Ordóñez judged himself with the same strictness that he has used to apply disciplinary sanctions to other officers, he should remove himself grom office immediately, since it seems that he has infringed article 126 of the Constitution.
Read MoreThe Assange case: some clarifications
The request of extradition of Julian Assange to Sweden and his political asylum in Equator have provoked a lot of debate. However, some of the arguments need some clarifications.
Read MoreThe world turned up side down. The high courts facing the public.
The thread of a complaint and the subsequent attack of the Penal Chamber against Cecilia Orozco is an example of what’s wrong with many magistrates. Their communication with the citizens is upside down: they react in an intese and sometimes disproportionate way before what the media says and they are not really transparent regarding the substantial core of their functions.
Read MoreWho is the one with a disability?
A couple of weeks ago, we received the olympic medallists as heroes. However no one talks about the 39 colombians with disabilities that are competing on the Paralympic Games in London today. No one talks eather about what this silence tells us about the situation of the people with disabilities in the country.
Read MoreDid the Supreme Court lost its mind?
The announcement made by the Penal Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice of the filing of a penal complaint against the journalist Cecilia Orozco because of an opinion column is a dangerous way of censorship and a serious attempt agains liberty of speech.
Read MoreIs the Ombudsman’s Office born again?
After nine years of a mute and resigned Omnudsman, it is expected from his successor to have more voice, more independence and more control over the 1400 public officials and a budget of 233 thousand millions of pesos that integrate this office.
Read MoreSome questions for the colombian government
The colombian government has sustained an ambiguos position regarding the reform process of the Interamerican commission of Human RIghts.
Read MoreAssange bound
The extreme openness of Wikileaks produces, no question, truths and sympathies. Who doesn’t want to know the content a box full of the secrets of the powerful and support he who enlightens us? However it also calls into questions, dislikes and persecutions. To avoid ending up naked, many want to bound Assange and, in doing so, they also want to know the methods and sources of this modern Prometheus that has provoked the rage of the gods by stealing their fire and giving it to the humans.
Read MoreA women for the Ombudsman Office
Today the House of Representatives faces the historical opportunity of electing the first female Ombudsman, after 20 years of masculin domain.
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