Schools with Manuals that Bully
The student conduct manuals are like a carte blanche of the small kingdoms known as schools.
Read MoreWhat Could Happen If Latin America Questions the Utopia of a World without Drugs at the UN?
The prohibitionist utopia of a “world without drugs” expressed in the Conventions on Narcotic Drugs signed in 1961, 1971, and 1988, is just that: an unreachable utopia.
Read MoreMemory and Atrocities
The French philosopher Jean Francois Lyotard proposed a suggestive metaphor about the difficulty a society has in recording the truth and remembering a period of mass atrocities, like the genocide by the Nazis.
Read MoreRadio Debates
In Colombia the radio has greatly developed, encouraged perhaps by difficult geography and poor communication among regions. Lacking highways, Colombians have communicated through radiowaves.
Read MoreThe Subtle Vengeance of the Law
“The rich don’t need the law because they already have money and power; it is the poor that need the law,” once said Albie Sachs, the lengendary South African activist that advised Mandela in the peace dialogues and became judge of the first post-Apartheid Constitutional Court.
Read MoreAsking For Forgiveness or Permission
Data management cannot be done by any means and much of that data can affect people’s privacy.
Read MoreWatching Out from the South
For now, most anti-corruption activists demand for greater transparency. My specific call is that just as the global South human rights movement has enriched the debate on human rights generally, something similar could happen with anti-corruption monitoring from our countries.
Read MoreThe Politics of Human Rights Policies at the OAS
The relationship of member states with the OAS and the structure of human rights have changed over time. This conference, given within the framework of the event “Impact and Future Directions for the Inter-American Human Rights System” May 29th in Puerto Rico, analyzes in what manner it has evolved.
Read MoreProfamilia’s Campaign
In Colombia abortion is legal in three exceptional cases: when the life or health of the pregnant woman is at risk, when the fetus’ malformations make it impossible from him/her to live outside the uterus, and when the pregnancy is a result of a carnal violation.
Read MoreMore Catholic Than the Pope
For those that were educated in Catholic schools during John Paul II’s papacy, to be more Catholic than the pope meant defending ultraconservative positions on topics like birth control or the rights of women and same-sex couples.
Read MoreLand restitution: “truths and lies”
A calm look at the arguments of the critics shows that they help to improve policy in three aspects and instead make three errors. Beyond the debate about numbers, we should clarify the scope, the context, and the barriers of land restitution while avoiding political polarization and support to those who perpetrated the spoil.
Read MoreAre Viviane Morales’ acts valid?
The invalidity of the election of Viviane Morales can disrupt the criminal procedures of several former government officials, especially those who are charged directly by the Prosecutor.
Read MoreIs the Prosecutor superflous?
We Colombians have the bad habit of institutional redundancy. That was once told to me by Hamergen Linn, a scholar of judicial reforms in Latin America.
Read MoreSeeking crusades
While his re-election is being discussed, the crusade that the Prosecutor began in 2010 against Misoprostol is working.
Read MoreTraining in Victims law and land restitution
Intensive Training course for the Implementation of Act 1448 of 2011
Read MoreWhy a coffin is cheaper than a medicine?
That’s the question being asked by Juan Gossaín in his recent chronicle of medicines in Colombia, much more expensive than in other countries. And he let this one in the air: “Can anyone explain Colombians what explains those monstrous price differences?”.
Read MoreWhy no prosecutor should be reelected
Brilliant legal explanation of the inconvenience and lack of legitimacy the re-election of the head of a watchdog agency would represent.
Read More“I would be surprised if a serious country gives asylum to Restrepo”
Executive Director of Dejusticia analyzes the tense public climate created by recent court decisions that affect senior ex-officials of the Uribe government and the military.
Read MoreThe offense of failure to pay alimony and/or child support: diagnosis regarding their suitability.
In this paper we study how advantageous it is to keep the offense of failure to pay alimony (IA) in Colombia and make some proposals for it to be more convenient. We analyze the relative magnitude of AI, its relative weight in the Colombian criminal justice system, the problems that arise in its procedural process, and its effectiveness in resolving conflicts protecting victims.
Read MoreSeeking reelection
Even if Alejandro Ordóñez was the best prosecutor we could have, his reelection would be inconvenient for the rule of law.
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