Tackling Income Inequality to Combat Climate Change
If we want to combat climate change, we must start with combatting economic inequality at the national and international level.
Read MoreThe Illegality of Massive Deportations
The Maduro government’s massive expulsion of Colombians is an inacceptable violations of international law, as shown by the simple contrast between some of the known facts and the standards that internationally regulate the expulsion of foreigners.
Read MoreFatherlands of Paper
In the middle of so many impassioned discussions about the situation in the Colombian-Venezuelan border, I remembered a passage from The World of Yesterday, one of my favorite books.
Read MorePeace, Black Folks, and Indigenous Peoples
Even though unfinished, the peace negotiations between the government and the FARC are giving unexpected results, that show both the opportunities and the most difficult challenges of post-conflict.
Read MoreFraming Climate Change as a Human Rights Issue
States have the responsibility of protecting human rights violations that arise not only from climate impacts, but from actions taken to mitigate emissions or adapt to climate change.
Read MoreKiller Palm?
In the face of expansive palm oil plantations, rural communities demand food sovereignty.
Read MoreGreece and Legacies of Violence
What if we considered these problems not simply as a threat to a notion of peace undergirding the European project, but also as part and parcel of that project’s related legacy of violence?
Read MoreEndorsing the Referendum
Neither the government nor the FARC should break their promise that the eventual peace accord will involve some kind of citizen referendum, that is, that there will be an opportunity for citizens to express their approval or disapproval of the agreement. Indeed, they should take care to ensure there are no ambiguities about this point.
Read MoreReason’s Passion
A couple of weeks ago I wrote an op-ed in which I talked about the two positions regarding the peace process: on one hand those that want to negotiate with a cool head, taming their hate in order to end the subversive cause; and, on the other hand, those that only want to destroy and kill the enemy.
Read MoreEating Mercury
To understand the problems and options of Colombia today, nothing is better than to look into mercury.
Read MoreConsumerism, happiness, and environment
The video of the Uruguayan José Mujica scolding his fellow presidents at the summit of Rio +20 has traveled the world. A speech full of simple questions, the kind that occur to a man who donates 90% of his salary because the rest is enough to sustain his simple life on a farm and get to work on a Volkswagen Model 87.
Read MoreHow is peace going
Latest report by International Crisis Group on BACRIM.
Read MoreThe dangers of the revocation of the Congress
From outrage to cool head.
Read MoreQuota Act in Colombia: Progress and challenges ten years of Act 581 of 2000
This paper explores the effects of the Quota Act in Colombia (Act 581 of 2000). In this sense, it shows that, after ten years of its entry into force, the Quota Act has shown many important instrumental and symbolic effects. However, it hasn’t been fulfilled in a comprehensive way and, in fact, many of its errands have had poor compliance.
Read MoreA black hole in the constitutional reforms
That catastrophe was the so-called justice reform revealed that besides the political responsibility of some key players, there are rules on the operation of Congress to allow things like that happen.
Read MoreThe presidential objection to the justice reform
The Santos government (and not only the Minister of Justice) has a clear political responsibility in the fact that the reform of justice became the institutional tangle that is threatening the country today. Not only did it presented the reform and impulsed it but it even asked its majorities in the Congress to aprove the text that merged from the conciliation.
Read MoreReasons for the referendum
To tackle the grotesque judicial reform, both law and politics point out the same solution: sign the citizen referendum to repeal it.
Read MoreTake advantage, no one is watching
“Don’t give papaya” and “at given papaya, splitted papaya” are Colombian social commandments that prevent citizenship projects like public bike sharing systems.
Read MoreCan Santos return the justice reform? (updated)
Constitutionally, return the reform to the Congress is difficult.
Read MoreCivil society organizations call on the Congress to speed up the discussion of the Draft Law on Access to Public Information
The fourth and final debate of the Statutory Law shall be held on Tuesday 19 June in the House of Representatives. The guarantee to the fundamental right of access to information is racing against the clock in this legislature that ends on Wednesday.
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