International justice: as fragile as it is necessary
Is international justice effective? We analyze the fragility, lack of budget, and political tensions and global courts.
By Paula Andrea Valencia Cortés | | Human Rights, ICC, Impunity, Inter-American System, International Criminal Court, International Justice, Multilateralism Crisis.
With judges on the chopping block, who will defend us?
With the global Rule of Law in decline, Latin America has become a political chessboard. Who protects us when judges lose their power?
By Kelly Giraldo Viana, Sofía Carrerá Martínez | | Authoritarianism, Brazil, Ecuador, El Salvador, Judicial Independence, Rule of Law, Venezuela, World Justice Project
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Contradictions made by President Uribe
By Mauricio García Villegas |
En la guerra los disidentes son enemigos y basta con que alguien sea identificado como tal para que se acepte su denuncia, su castigo y hasta su eliminación. En la ...
Lea más The Bolivian crisis and the Parliamentarism option
By Rodrigo Uprimny Yepes |
La reciente crisis boliviana parece poner nuevamente en el tapete el debate sobre la conveniencia o no de que América Latina abandone el presidencialismo y adopte fórmulas parlamentarias. Y es ...
Lea más Defense of TransMilenio
By Juan Fernando Jaramillo (Deceased) |
El TransMilenio es una de las mejores cosas que nos ha pasado a los que vivimos en Bogotá, y ha contribuido enormemente a la humanización de la ciudad. He andado ...
Lea más The census of what?
By Danilo Rojas (Retired in 2019) |
Luego de 10 años de haberse iniciado la planificación del censo poblacional en Colombia, el Consejo Nacional de Política Económica y Social -Conpes- aprobó su realización en marzo de 2004, ...
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By Diego E. López Medina |
El secretario general de las Naciones Unidas, Kofi Annan, lanzó durante el Foro Económico Mundial de 1999 en Davos, Suiza, una iniciativa a la que se le dio el nombre ...
Lea más Is the United States-Colombia Free Trade Agreement Constitutional?
By César Rodríguez-Garavito (Retired in 2019) |
En medio de las carreras para firmar el TLC cuanto antes, tanto el equipo negociador del gobierno como los juiciosos analistas que han seguido el tema han pasado por alto ...
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I don’t care if they call me a dictator.
By Nina Chaparro González | | bukele, Democracy, Dictadura, El Salvador, Program for strengthening - Others
During his six years in office, Bukele has consolidated his power, paving the way to become the dictator he appears to be announcing himself as.
Lea más NGOs at risk of global extinction
By Nina Chaparro González | | financiación internacional, NGO, Program for strengthening - Others
How can non-governmental organizations transform themselves? What were they like when they did not depend on international funding?
Lea más Colombia: going back to the original balance of justice
By Paola Molano Ayala | | gorillaz, JEP, Transitional Justice, Victims
There is a crucial aspect of Colombia’s transitional justice model that is worrying: the current inability of the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) to offer legal security to those who participated in the conflict, including in human rights violations, and have not been identified as among the most responsible. And making sure they also contribute to the satisfaction of the rights of the victims. The JEP must avoid keep moving towards maximalist approaches and go back to the balance in the Peace Agreement.
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We travel with 20 indigenous activists of the world to the heart of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta. Listen to this story about the Kankuama Resistance.
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Discover some of the documentary pieces that we have made. Indigenous resistance, migration of Venezuelans to Colombia and stories of women coca growers, are some of our topics of interest.
