Columns & Blogs

The agreement on transitional justice achieved in Habana is much too important and complex to leave it to those, like the Solicitor General, who reduce it to demanding prison terms for the FARC.

The Colombian state is arming itself to the teeth to do mass surveillance on our communications.

"For our grandparents' lands," so says grafitti painted during the agricultural strike last year in the center of Bogotá.

This Friday will take place a forum on "Women, Drug Policy, and Imprisonment in the Americas."

Harsh Mander, Director of the Centre for the Study of Equity in India, was one of the instructors for the Intensive ESC Rights Course that took place last week in Bogotá. Carlos Baquero, researcher at Dejustcia, interviewed him for El Espectador about the fight against hunger.

In Colombia there are situations that inspire simultaneously shame and admiration, impotence and hope.

What happened this week with the attempt to bring charges against Carolina Sabino shows the schizophrenia that surrounds the issue of abortion in Colombia.

In the almost ten years I have worked in Racial Discrimination WAtch, I have never heard a diagnostic and protest so eloquent and correct like the spontanous speech of the cabinet-maker Carlos Angulo after being randomly searched by the policy in Bogotá's city center.

The perverse form in which police department sets goals induces the police to commit arbritrariness against low-income populations.