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The Guantanamo detention center symbolizes the way in which a democracy should never fight democracy.

One of the invitees to the UN meeting about climate change reflects on the feeling of failure for a handful of soft regulations on one hand and the hope that 1% of the governments will follow through with their commitments on CO2 emission reductions.

One would hope that there would be a certain correspondence between the diplomas that are awarded by universities and society's needs.

The UN Rapporteur for the rights of these peoples says that they can help mitigate the impacts of global warming and ensures that it is time for Governments to include them in their discussions.

What are the challenges of the Climate Green Fund? What should be the purpose of this money? In an interview with El Espectador, Andrea Rodríguez, Legal Counsel for Climate Change of AIDA, answers these questions and says that up until now expectations have not been met.

A new controversial topic of the peace process has circulated the public debate in the past few days: the possibility of considering "drug trafficking" as a crime related to political crimes.

Lima - Perhaps the most lasting lesson that we the assistants of the global climate change summit leave with is that with it ends the era of big treaties.

Interview with Cándido Mezua In the COP20 in Lima, Peru, the leader of the Mesoamerican Alliance of Peoples and Forests assures that indigenous communities are indispensable in protecting ecosystems. "We need resources in order to protect the environment," he says.

To definitively end a war one must create a balance of responsibilities. The sentence against Salvatore Mancuso and a recent book provide clues to understand why some try to place all of the blame on combatants, exonerating the war's makers.

Peru has one face for the international community in the COP 20 and another that its citizens see. Analysis by Dejusticia from Lima.

Dejusticia interviews Adriana Soto, ex-Vice Minister of Environment and Director of The Nature Conservancy for Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela.

The Constitutional Reform proposal that aims to expand the military's court jurisdiction, driven by the Government and supported by almost all political forces, probably would imply that many of the so-called false positives, which today the civilian judiciary processes, will pass to the military, with huge risk that they remain in impunity.