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Our researcher Sebastián Lalinde analyzed for El Espectador the problems with the new Police Code that is active since January 30th. Dejusticia has led two lawsuits against this law for violating the right to protest and privacy.

In the midst of a busy traffic intersection, Beit Barakat, or the Barakat House, is an assuming edifice. Most Beirutis pass it by every day without knowing that behind its bullet hole-riddled yellow exterior lie almost a century of memories and a continuing struggle

The so called "command responsibility" is a technical topic that generates perplexities even among experts. But it is really important since the legitimacy of the special peace jurisdiction (JEP) depends greatly on the topic being adequately resolved. 

Corruption is in fashion and despite this, it has never not been.  The target is always politics, so that norms can be modified for the convenience of those who would corrupt, and they can slowly replace the State.

Something paradoxical is happening with citizen participation after the end of the war with FARC. Those who initially opposed the plebiscite but ended up winning, now suddenly embrace participation to claim that the peace accord is legitimate. Instead, those who supported the plebiscite and promoted participative democracy through the years, seem to be defensive after the October 2nd surprise.

There must be a way to incorporate the normative principles of the human rights framework in the visual comparisons that we make.

The biggest challenge of 2017 is to consolidate peace. The agreement between the Government and the FARC promises to promote comprehensive rural reform, a process of democratic openness, a system that guarantees the rights of victims of armed conflict and some solutions to the problem of illicit drug use. Promises that should materialize with a gender approach, which came to the Agreement thanks to the persistence of the social movement of women and remained in it, despite having been misrepresented during the campaign of the plebiscite.

The idea of "inauguration" of a new political era rather than a presidential period seems to be more appropriate. 

There are two ways to read the global moment that begins today with Trump as president. The possibility that it is a periodic oscillation of the political pendulum, within the basic contours of the current world order since 1945.

More than a prison crisis, massive murders in prisons are proof of the institutional weakeness when facing organized crime.

If the policy of post-truth is a threat to democracy as I argued in my last op-ed, a question arises: would the solution be that judges revoke electoral victories based on lies?