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Victims' participation in the peace negotiation roundtable between the FARC and the national government is an iconic event for our country. Many have minimized the importance of this participation without knowing it is unprecedented in other similar negotiation processes.

Responsibility for the success or failure of the Rome system depends on all the actors involved

In the past years, various academic works have changed the discussion about social equality because, with solid empirical evidence, they allow the formulation of five powerful theses, which justify that countries like Colombia adopt a social pact in favor of equality.

The marches of the past January 11th in Paris were an impressive demonstration of republican unity, something we have not seen since the Second World War.

The silence in the face of the massacre of hundreds of people in Nigeria is just as eloquent as the global cacophony in response to the barbarous murder of 17 people in Paris. The contrast is even more revealing given the events' similarities.

The response to the attacks last Wednesday cannot be censorship but rather continuing the struggle for freedom of expression.

"Without humor we are all dead." With that phrase, Chapatte, cartoonists of the New York Times, gave homage to the memory of his Charlie Hebdo colleagues, murdered this past Wednesday in Paris.

Charlie Hebdo is a French weekly magazine that specializes in political and cultural satire. Its texts are caustic and tend to target leaders on the right, bankers, and religious prophets.

Imagine for a second that we discover that a general of many stars is not who he says he is.

Never before have governments committed to proposing and publishing precise goals regarding emission reductions.

If you want to fulfill the "American dream" and become very rich thanks only to your talent and effort you have to go to Denmark or Sweden, not the United States. That is the conclusion that emerges from the influential work of the Canadian economist Miles Corak about equality and social mobility.

At the end of the year, when increases in the minimum wage are negotiated, discussions about the meaning of wages and work are reignited. A great part of the opposition to increases to wages are related to, for example, the fact that its value serves more as a unit of value for multiple things (like warrants, taxes, compensation payments) and less as a value for the recompense for labor.