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ANIF, in its edition of its September magazine Carta Financiera, tacitly argues the following thesis: the greater the rate of incarceration (RI), which is the measure of prisoners per 100,000 people, the greater the efficiency of the criminal system.

Last month the Spanish Royal Academy released the 23rd edition of the Spanish Dictionary.

I once wrote a defense of silent concentration, so rare in a world with never-ending distractions.

A few days ago the Ombudsman's Office identified the detention centers with the highest rate of overpopulation in the country.

Since the artificial division of human rights into civil and political rights on the one hand, and economic, social, and cultural rights (ESCR) on the other, activists have struggled to ensure equal protection of the latter in domestic and international courts.

What would the great philosopher Kant say about the debate, unfortunately polarized, about the tutela granted to Camila Abuabara which obligated the State to fund her transplant procedure in the United States?

According to the World Justice Project published this year, Colombia ranks 79th out of 99 in criminal justice effectiveness.

I was writing this op-ed when an acquaintance asked me:

San Andrés is one of the most visited tourist destinations in Colombia. In 2011 the island accounted for 22% of national tourism, some 530,000 tourists, according to data presented by UN Periódico. For this reason, when people think of San Andrés, it conjures up images of crystalline beaches and its famous "sea of seven colors." However, in San Andrés there has been a dispute between the parts of the island given to tourists and commercial interests and the Raizal population's ancestral territory.

The students of Mexico and Nigeria painfully remember the importance and precariousness of the right to education.

It is important for civil society organizations and communities to understand the way in which companies act, and to design strategies to avoid their undue influence in public policy decisions.

The well-deserved recognition and the necessary protagonism of victims has created, nevertheless, serious risks like oversimplification, political manipulation, deceit, demagogy, and a lack of fulfillment and respect for their rights.