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 MoreAbortion, pluralism and criminal policy
A sober and well supported intent of showing that there values in common and proven facts to approach national agreement on this decisive subject.
Read MoreElementary, my dear Watson
I don’t understand why the Constitutional Court has taken so long in deciding in favor of the adoption demanded by the lesbian mothers of Medellin.
Read MoreThe country of Pacific Rubiales
From hearing over and over that “Pacific is Colombia and is for you”, one starts to doubt.
Read MoreThe rectification that wasn’t one
With the half done rectification of the prosecuter Ordóñez, it is clear that he will continue to partially fulfill with the jurisprudence and to miss his functions.
Read MoreJudical career and democracy
The civil wars of the XXth century in Colombia where essentially a confrontation between aan armed crowd of public employed
Read MoreWho removed the Minister of heatlh?
The appointment of Alejandro Gaviria as the minister of health has been rightly celebrated. However, no one has asked themselves why his predecessor, Beatriz Londoño, only lasted seven months in office.
Read MoreShortlist of three candidates conformed by one person
In Colombia, conforming shortlists of three candidates to elect high functionaries in a rigged and deceptive way has comed into fashion.
Read MoreMr. Prosecuter: lets debate with height
How unfortunate that the prosecuter Ordóñez avoids, with personal attack, a substantive answer to my last column, where I pointed out that he had violated article 126 od the Constitution.
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 More