Columns & Blogs
Columns & Blogs
The Coal Industry Has to End if We Want to Meet the Goal of Global Warming
By Krizna Gomez |
We want climate justice now!
Colombia and South Africa
By Rodrigo Uprimny Yepes |
I suspect that many of those who consider the victims and justice agreement reached by the FARC and the government unacceptable, due to it supposedly permitting impunity, are also Mandela admirers and the South African transition. This is paradoxical as its contradictory to admire Mandela and consider unacceptable this agreement with the FARC.
The Physical Therapy of Peace
By Mauricio García Villegas |
Due to tendinitis in one of my legs from falling off my bike, I had to visit the doctor.
Loose Cannon
By Vivian Newman Pont |
The whole world thinks the battle is lost. That there were wiretaps in the 60s, in the 90s, last year, and that there will be next year as well. That we are all wiretapped and that there isn't a commission that could fix the police.
The Magic of Words
By Carlos Andrés Baquero Díaz |
Names and their meanings define the relationship between social movements and states.
To Die in Detention
By Mauricio Albarracín |
This past 5th of December, between 9:15 and 10:20 p.m., a trans person died while she was detained by the Police of the Permanent Justice Unit (UPJ) of Puente Arandoa in Bogota.
This is How Slavery Works in the 21st Century
By Paola Molano Ayala |
Opaque Justice (II)
By Rodrigo Uprimny Yepes |
The creation of governmental bodies in the judiciary, emerging from the constitutional balance of powers reform, has hardly been transparent, which is worrisome, as the tangible functioning the judiciary highly depends on the quality of those bodies.
The Planet in Brackets
By César Rodríguez-Garavito (Retired in 2019) |
Here at the climate change summit in Paris, the future of the planet is in brackets.
Writing and Thinking
By Mauricio García Villegas |
In a recent op-ed Piedad Bonnett regretfully discusses just how common poor writing is in Colombia.
New Documentary on Coal and Human Rights in the Global South
By Krizna Gomez |
Coal Is Not in Decline; It Is Thriving in the South
By Krizna Gomez |
The Global North may be enforcing strict limitations on coal to curb their emissions at home, but somebody else is eating it up.
