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Despite the setbacks, the Transitional Justice System is already working. However, the sustainability of the process will depend on the decisions of the Constitutional Court and the proper processing of amnesties.

Latin American countries need to strengthen both their legislation and access to justice mechanisms, particularly those involving civil and consumer rights, in order to stop the use of asbestos and similarly harmful substances.

The university does not only have the task of preparing good professionals, but of forming honest citizens, and teachers are key in that mission. The book Academy and Citizenship explores the fulfillment of academic and citizenship standards by teachers in Antioquia.

Governments have taken advantage of a legal and informative vacuum to turn their critics' cell phones into surveillance devices. It is essential to update the legislation and require government entities to disclose how they use electronic surveillance systems.

One of the most difficult wounds to heal from the armed conflict is closely related to the democratic debate. In the post-conflict period, democracies tend to be at their weakest point. Hence why a sensible dialogue between political forces is a condition for the prosperity of peace.

By not recusing himself from voting on a fast track ruling, Justice Bernal violated his judicial duties and placed the Court and the country in a difficult situation: the possibility of revoking the sentence increases legal uncertainty and political polarization.

Although women growers face particular contexts of discrimination, poverty and workload, the decree creating the Program for the Substitution of illicit crops did not include a gender approach.

The case of Justice Bernal, who would be unable to vote in a fast track ruling, is easy: it should lead to the nullity of that sentence.

Instead of contemplating the greatness of disarmament, which opens the door to peace, many critics have stubbornly sought out the "frog" and say that the process was all a farce. Even if it received UN verification.

Perhaps the next great revolution in the history of mankind will no longer happen in a country (as in Russia in 1917 or in France in 1789), but throughout the world and be the result of the coordination of actions of millions of people.

The history of art is plagued with censorship. Ulysses, by the Irish author James Joyce, was banned for more than ten years and went to trial three times for being considered obscene.

The investment treaty with France, which provides clauses of arbitration and indirect expropriation, was approved during a third debate in Congress. The treaty could be approved in the next few days without much analysis or discussion. And it should not be so because the risk of these treaties is enormous.