Hacking Is More Than Wiretaps
Who oversees the National Police’s hacking?
Read MoreA Woman Nominee
The replacement of Mauricio González in the Constitutional Court provides President Santos with a golden opportunity: decisively achieving greater gender equity in the courts.
Read MoreThe Beginning of All Things
Thales of Miletus was the first philosopher of Classical Greece that tried to find the origin of everything; something that could explain what exists. This origin, which he called Arche, he found in water. Everything is made up of water, said Thales, “the earth rests on water, like an island.” His disciples later added three elements to this explanation: earth, air, and fire.
Read MoreSéptimo Día’s Indigenous People
The television program Séptimo Día found a curious way of celebrating the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples. Over three Sundays, through specific denunciations, it aired generalized conclusions so tenuous that it gave the impresion to its thousands of viewers that corruption, alcoholism, sexual violence, guerrilla infiltration, and land grabbing are the rule among indigineous peoples.
Read MoreProhibitionists and Gangsters: Two Faces of the Same Coin
“Colombia has an alcohol market, but there is no Pablo Escobar of beer or vodka. And it is not because vodka is better than cocaine, but rather because it is legal,” explains Johann Hari.
Read MoreIf They Globalize Exploitation, Let’s Globalize Resistance
The struggle to protect land is a shared mission in the Americas that has been globalized together with exploitation.
Read MoreHiroshima and Szilárd
Today 70 years ago Nagasaki was bombed, which alongside Hiroshima, caused nearly 250,000 deaths.
Read MoreWooden Language
There is nothing more natural than politicians’ use of language that is both pompous and unnecessary at the same time.
Read MoreSoft Drinks and Cigarettes
We have to begin by tying loose ends with other countries and other industries. In this way we can not only see why it is a wise proposal, but also why it does not go far enough.
Read MoreThe False Beliefs about False Accusations
Although 98% of sexual assault accusations are real, the other 2% determine how we treat survivors of this type of violence.
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.
Read MoreIn the Presidential Palace, the Quota Act does not stick
A few years ago, a professor gave a lecture in a town on the Law 80 of administrative contracts, which had just been approved, so that the local government could comply with it.
Read MoreThe State and sexual violence against women in the context of socio-political violence in Colombia
Report submitted by women’s and human rights organizations to the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict, Margot Wallstrom, on the occasion of her visit to Colombia. The report relates the situation of sexual violence against women in the context of socio-political violence in Colombia, and the state response to it.
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