Columns & Blogs

This year, the judiciary has a temporary status that seems to matter very little. For example, the Superior Judiciary Council, which exists until the end of the transition period to the Balance of Powers reform, has less than half of its judges sworn in.

It's true that the current market does not give us the best and most accurate information about the quality of the products we eat and drink.

The end of 2015 marked important milestones for the protection of ESCR in the UN and OAS human rights systems, in which both systems determined that these rights are justiciable.

Some have been outraged by Peñalosa's suggestions in interviews or books flaps that he has a Ph.D. , when he doesn't, and that he hasn't had the decency of at the very least making a public apology for his ruse.

The last two mayors of Bogotá have led citizens to believe that they had a Ph.D., when in reality they only did "Ph.D. studies"; that is to say, they only took coursework in a Ph.D. program that makes part of the long process that eventually leads to the conferral of a Ph.D. degree.

Why are medicines so much more expensive in Colombia when compared to other countries? The debate about a cancer treatment drug (Imatinib) exemplifies the reasons, documented in a study that we published with the expert Rochelle Dreyfuss and specialists of the Americas.

We either change drug policy to weaken paramilitarism and the strongholds of organized crime that remain from the internal conflict, or the possibilities for peace building will be much more difficult and uncertain. 

Last week, at the Book Fair, I participated in a discussion that revealed that sexism is present in our society with a rare force and that feminism is a disregarded voice in our public debates.

Colombia insisted at the UN that the War against Drugs has failed, it's time to implement more intelligent policy domestically.

When we give swashbucklers like Duterte and Trump the absolute power to decide who is the good person and the bad, to remake what innocence and justice mean, we corrupt them absolutely. A leader who comes to power will eventually do anything to stay in power–including turning his back on those who put him there. And when we realize that we have unleashed a monster, it is already too late to put the genie back in the bottle.

The "United Nations General Assembly Special Session" about dugs (known as UNGASS) leaves a mixed balance for those that consider the international prohibition regime irrational and unjust and hence should be deeply reformed.

Dilma Rousseff, President of Brazil, is accused of fiscal coverup and bad management of public accounts.