In Defense of the Defense
The application of human rights is only possible if there exists criminal due process, which includes the right to effective criminal defense.
Read MorePandora’s Box
On security issues, it seems that authorities care more about perception than action. When what matters is what citizens perceive, strategies lend themselves more to the marketing of problems than substantive solutions.
Read MoreWhite, Black and Blues
I like the blues. It’s a musical genre based on a 12-beat rhythm that is accompanied by a kind of wail that produces a sensation of sweet melancholy.
Read MoreWhat Are the Roots of the Countryside?
Today, in the middle of Bogotá, people say that the roots of business are in the countryside.
Read MoreXenophobic Racism?
“I’m not racist, but I don’t want Black immigrants in my country.”
Read MoreThe Solicitor General’s Invalidity
The Solicitor General, in an interview last Wednesday, stated that the litigation that seeks for the Council of State to anull his reelection does not have any legal substance and are motivated by criminal and political interests.
Read MoreAn Ultimatum for the FARC?
Last week, The Economist commented on the peace process in Colombia. In an editorial titled “Time to Call the Farc’s Bluff”, the magazine recognizes the process’ progress, but worries about the critical moment that the process finds itself in given recent violence and the lack of concrete agreements regarding transitional justice.
Read MoreThe Hacked Hacker
If someone wanted to know the most information possible about a person, ideally one would embody them. Given that this is impossible, it leaves the option of hacking a person’s computer or phone to read their emails, chats, google search history, as well as turn on their camera and film what happens in their surroundings and their microphone to hear everything… almost like becoming that person at a distance.
Read MoreWho Says the Truth?
Unfounded and uninformed criticism only serves to deepen the crisis that the Peace Process is currently experiencing and places in jeopardy the best opportunity we have had to overcome the armed conflict.
Read MoreMarriage Is Not Enough: Beyond Legal Recognition
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The U.S. became the twenty-second country in the world to approve marriage equality nationally following the U.S. Supreme Court ruling on Obergefell v Hodges.
Read MoreThe paramilitaries and the campaigns of Uribe
Two academic studies found statistically significant relationships between the ratings of former President Uribe in 2002 and 2006 and the degree of control exercised both by paramilitaries and guerrilla groups in the municipalities.
Read MoreJustice reform and cooptation
As in the classic western of Sergio Leone, you may find in the bill of the justice reform the good, the bad, and the ugly.
Read MoreDrug Courts: achievements and challenges of an alternative to prison
This document emphasizes that drug courts are an interesting model due to the fact that they constitute an alternative to imprisonment for drug offenses, however, it also recognizes that it has serious limitations that challenge its convenience.
Read MoreIn the closet: Santos and gay couples
Viewing Obama’s statements in favor of gay marriage, I wondered: what does President Santos think about it? What has he said about the rights of LGBT people? Has he given a nod to his party in Congress to protect same-sex couples families as demanded by the Contitutional Court?
Read More“Dignifying” prostitution
After the scandal of the U.S. Secret Service agents, a bill to regulate prostitution in Colombia is being prepared.
Read MorePublic information and perception of journalists
If we compare ourselves to other countries in the region, we can conclude that the situation of access to information in Colombia is far from being a rose garden.
Read MoreStrengthening Indigenous Rights through truth comissions: A Practitioner’s Resource.
This resource book focuses on truth commissions mandated to look at a period of human rights violations that particularly affected indigenous communities. It is an initial effort to systematically organize lessons learned and make further progress by designing truth processes that are fully compliant with the rights of indigenous peoples.
Cesar Rodriguez and Yukyan Lam contributed with chapter of the book.
Read MoreSuperior interest of the child and equalitarian adoption
Those who oppose adoption by same-sex couples now argue that they do not do it out of prejudice against homosexuals but for one reason above suspicion: the protection of the superior interest of minors.
Read MoreThe FARC and humanitarian law
At the time when the debate on the legal framework for peace is at height, the FARC have helped with their actions to make it difficult to even consider a possible scenario of politically negotiating the armed conflict.
Read MoreThe political reform of the justice reform
Instead of addressing the underlying problems in the justice reform has focused on the legal problems of the Congress. Some of these changes are legitimate, but others are doubtful, or are just monkeys. A rigorous and comprehensive assessment of the reforms for Congress.
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