Eulogy to Shame
Only in Colombia can someone like Álvaro Uribe Vélez accuse someone like Antanas Mockus of cheating.
Read MoreThe International Criminal Court and Negotiated Peace: Lessons from Colombia
In Colombia, a too rigid understanding of the duty to prosecute and the “interests of justice” in the Rome Statute threaten the possibility of negotiating an end to the armed conflict.
Read MoreSantos’ Plan without Afros
Should the Santos administration have consulted afro-descendent communities before presenting the National Development Plan before Congress?
Read MoreTrusting Each Other’s Choices
If the Colombian Constitutional Court trusts that heterosexuals and homosexuals alike can decide who makes up their families, the debate about homoparental families should not end.
Read MoreTerritorial Peace without Environmental Peace?
Cajamarca– This week, in a session of the city council meeting of this corner of Tolima, it was clear that the future of peace is in municipalities like this one, as the national Government and the United Nations have said.
Read MoreShould the Use of the Bull Plaza for Bullfighting Be Decided by Popular Consultation?
New “For and Against” session by the newspaper @ElEspectador. Lawyer César Rodríguez-Garavito and columnist Antonio Caballero argue their positions.
Read MoreThe ICC and Negotiated Peace: Reflections from Colombia
The Colombian case shows the need for flexibility in balancing the duty to prosecute international crimes with the duty to negotiate an end to the civil war.
Read MoreState-Sanctioned Femicide: How Criminalizing Abortion Puts Women’s Lives at Risk
We know that criminalizing and limiting access to abortion does not lower abortion rates; it just endangers the lives of women who resort to illegal, clandestine, and dangerous forms of abortion.
Read MoreFrom #JeSuisCharlie to #YoSoyBonil
The court hearing tomorrow, in which the Ecuadorian cartoonist Xavier Bonil (also known as Bonil) could be convicted, evinces the Correa administration’s growing intolerance against satire and civil liberties.
Read MoreReferendum as Process
One of the problems with the discussion about a referendum on the peace accord in that many give it at least two different meanings, which are linked but are important to distinguish, to debate the issue more productively and find better solutions.
Read MoreAfro-Colombians and indigenous people in permanent session
Fourth installment of the special series of El Espectator and Racial Discrimination Watch for the Year of African Descent.
Read MoreYes ¿I do?
In a unanimous decision, the Constitutional Court just postponed the approval of civil marriage for same-sex couples, saying it is the Congress who must take charge of its regulation.
Read MoreTo Congress, for equal marriage!
Finally, the Constitutional Court acknowledged that same-sex couples are family and soon will be able to marrie.
Read MoreSecret data
Francisco Gutierrez rubbed salt in the wound we, Colombian social researchers, silently carry like a scar of the job.
Read MoreState, Constitution and Geography
The State has failed to control the whole territory, and this is the fundamental problem of Colombia. This lucid text examines the roots and the consequences of the historical neglect of the periphery, the intent of the 1991 Constitution to build state in these regions, and the serious need to strengthen its municipalities.
Read MoreWedding bells ring
We had to wait until the last possible day to see if the Constitutional Court would say I do to equal marriage. For over two years this elusive Court has had society on tenterhooks with its reply. Last year it evaded the issue arguing procedural excuses, but today is the deadline to say yes, I do.
Read MoreIs the debate on the constitutional reform to justice starting?
The debate on the constitutional reform to justice appears to be starting as the government will present its project in coming days, after trying unsuccessfully for several months to harmonize it with the high courts.
Read MoreYes or no to gay marriage?
Until next Friday can the Constitutional Court rule in depth on the possibility of same-sex couples to join legally.
Rodrigo Uprimny, executive director of the Center for the Study of Law, Justice, and Society, and José Galat, the rector of the University of La Gran Colombia, debate over gay marriage.
Read MoreSpeech by Rodrigo Uprimny in the public hearing of the Constitutional Court on the health system.
On Thursday July 7 the Constitutional Court held a public hearing on the enforcement of the decision T-760 of 2008.
To see the intervention of Rodrigo Uprimny see the video.
Read MoreThe 1991 Constitution in perspective (II)
In his column on July 7, Eduardo Posada Carbó considers it is “a poor defense of the 1991 Constitution,” to argue that it breaks with the Colombian constitutional tradition and is distinguished from ones before because it was not the imposition of the victors.
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