War on Drugs, War on Women
The War on Drugs has been, principally, a war against vulnerable populations. Among its victims are many low-income women and their families.
Read MoreWhere Are Taxes in Human Rights?
How are taxes connected to human rights or how should they be? Why should human rights researchers and activists in the Global South care about taxes?
Read MoreThe Duty to Resign
The Judge Pretelt’s denial to resign for the grave accusations levied against him raises a question, which is abstract but relevant not only in this case, but also many other similar cases: does a public servant’s duty to resign exist or not in these type of circumstance?
Read MoreHans Kelsen in the Tropics
Abelarde De la Espriella, Jorge Pretelt’s lawyer, published this week a column in El Heraldo, where he responds to those who criticized him for saying that ethics have nothing to do with law.
Read MoreMulticulturalism or “Apartheid”?
I do not share the deluge of personal attacks agains Senator Paloma Valencia for her unfortunate proposal to split the Cauca Department in two: “one indigenous department so that they can strike, protest, and invade, and one department dedicated to development, where we can invest in infrastructure, promote investment, and where there can be decent work for its inhabitants.”
Read MorePurge or the Oppression of the Boots
The greater the difficulty a survivor of sexual violence has telling what happened, the greater the recipient’s responsibility to understand it.
Read MoreU.S. Success in Colombia?
The potential success of the peace process will be hard won, not through U.S. foreign assistance in the War on Drugs or the War on Terror, but through the effort and sacrifices of millions of Colombians, over many years.
Read MoreThe Court in Its Labyrinth
The accusations against Justice Pretelt and ex-Justices Rojas and Escobar of the Constitutional Court (CC) are very serious and cannot be brushed under the carpet. It is right that it should generate a strong citizen rejection and that we demand that there be more transparency, definition of responsibilites, and adoption of structural reforms. But it is necessary to distinguish between possible individual transgressions and the CC’s institutional problems.
Read MoreLaw and Ethics
Societies that constantly experience scandals, like ours, suffer from a type of collective squizofrenia. Each story of corruption produces two opposite reactions: while some, the moralists, throw up their hands in horror and clamer for exemplary punishments, others, the cynics, shrug their shoulders and say that nothing has happened until there’s a final conviction.
Read MorePreserve the Court
There are two ways of seeing the justified citizen and media indignation in response to the serious accusations against Judge Jorge Pretelt and the ex-Judges Rodrigo Escobar and Alberto Rojas. And two corresponding forms of navigating out of the Constitutional Court’s crisis.
Read MoreWhen hygiene violates fundamental rights
Arguing hygiene, women are seeing their right to conjugal visits in prisons limited.
Read MorePetro or the last chance of the left
From the government of Gustavo Petro in Bogota depends, not only a city in crisis, but the future of the left.
Read MoreExpanding military justice?
Is it convenient or not to extend military jurisdiction, this is, the competence of the military justice?
Read MorePeople with Disabilities in Colombia
Characterization paper of the population with disabilities in Colombia of the Convention on the Rights of Persona with Disabilities of the UN.
Read MoreTaking Brazil seriously
Sao Paulo. The air breathed in Brazil seems to blow towards the future. In the stores, the 20 million people who came out of poverty during the government of Lula hustle each other to buy their first refrigerator or washing machine.
Read MoreAbortion: first round
The criminalization of abortion under any circumstances would have serious and little known legal consequences, would contradict international law, would violate fundamental rights of women and is being defended based on lies. A reasoned review of the debate, as announced, will continue in the coming days.
Read MoreThe Colombian Constitutional Court’s Response to the Accountability Challenge: the Case of the Displaced Persons
Colombia is experiencing a huge deficit of decent work
The study on decent work in Colombia reveals the decline of the country in labor issues and proposes to reform public policy. This is the conclusion of the investigation performed by Dejusticia for the Special Prosecutor for Labour and Social Security Affairs.
Read MoreMinimum dose, maximum discussion
Regarding the personal drug consumption, things in this country have not been established.
Read MoreHelena Alviar’s intervention in the VII Encounter of the Constitutional Jurisdiction
On October 10th-12th, 2011, the VII Encounter of the Constitutional Jurisdiction. This time, the Constitutional Court commemorated the 20th anniversary of the 1991 Constitution, in an event called “Constitutional dialogues with the world.”
This encounter was attended by two founding members of Dejusticia: Rodrigo Uprimny and Helena Alviar.
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