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With the march of the members of the FARC to the selected zones and the sessions in the Congress that have been integrating the agreement to the Colombian legislation, the Peace Agreement becomes a tangible reality. Not without uncertainties and without much bullying.

The question about mandatory voting resurfaces with the Government's proposal to include it in the package of reforms derived from the peace agreement. The discussion is deep, has occurred in many countries and involves arguments and studies that must be considered with pause.

To guarantee a proper normative implementation of the peace accord, we need an independent and very strong Constitutional Court both in the political and in the technical sense.

In the last two years, every three days on average, a social leader or human rights defender was murdered.

The new Police Code confuses privacy with staying at home and targets the right to privacy. 

The end of war, as war itself, has paradoxical effects on nature. The most well-known impacts are the destructive ones: the poisoning of rivers through illegal mining that has financed guerrillas and paramilitaries alike; the contamination of soil due to the bombing of oil pipelines by the ELN, the rents imposed by FARC for coca crops in national parks, the forever dried-up wetlands by paramilities who cultivated palm. 

On February 7th, 2007, the Constitutional Court ended with the legal apartheid against same-sex couples by recognizing their constitutional protection and extending the patrimonial protection under the same conditions as heterosexual couples.

Colombia has a new Police Code. The law that created these new rules for "coexistence" has 241 articles, was drafted by the Ministry of Defense in the company of the same National Police and had the approval of Congress. Its spirit, the document says, is "preventive."

Human groups have the tribal tendency to deny the humanity of anyone who belongs to a different culture.

The first days of the new U.S. government have produced commotion around the world.