Columns & Blogs
Columns & Blogs
Ebola: Tragedy or Injustice?
By Rodrigo Uprimny Yepes |
Funds only appear when these illnesses get close to Europe and North America.
Read more Pat-Downs, Up to Discretion?
By Rodrigo Uprimny Yepes |
In Colombia we have not seriously debated in what cases the police in a public space can stop, ask for identification, or pat-down a person.
Read more The Prison Problem in Colombia
By Carolina Villadiego Burbano |
For Carolina Villadiego the problem in the country's prisons stems from various causes, the judicial strike among them.
Read more Intellectual Impunity and Violence
By Mauricio García Villegas |
What relationship exists between the following four individual sentences?
1) Paul Gauguin's paintings are much more beautiful than Vincent van Gogh's; 2) God exists as three distinct persons, Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit; 3) the protection of the environment should be done in such a manner that it does not compromise property rights; and 4) energy is neither created nor destroyed, it is only transformed.
Read more Brazil’s Alternative
By César Rodríguez-Garavito (Retired in 2019) |
What is at stake on Sunday is more than the presidency of Brazil.
Secrets among Company…
By Vivian Newman Pont |
Secrets serve the intimacy of its keeper. As such, last month Apple released the new iPhone 6 with a surprising technological feature: the possibility to protect your cellphone's photos, contacts, and certain information with a password that no one else can have access to.
Read more Law of Fallow Lands: A New Obstacle for Peace
By Aura Bolívar Jaime |
The Fallow Lands Bill presented a few weeks ago by the National Governments disregards the agreements crafted in Havana regarding the integral agrarian development policy.
Read more Wrongful Sentences in Latin America
By Carolina Villadiego Burbano |
Sentencing and sanctioning innocents is a severe failure on the part of the judiciary. Preventing wrongful sentences should be a priority, and thus knowing its causes is fundamental. However, to what degree is this occurring? The empirical evidence suggests it is quite common and deserves serious attention.
Read more Fracking Lessons for the Global South
By Diana Rodríguez Franco, Celeste Kauffman |
Before we undertake fracking, we should learn to listen to citizens, to make decisions about development based on the voices that live on the land and will be affected by those decisions.
Read more Increasing Military Jurisdiction
By Rodrigo Uprimny Yepes |
The government approved in first debate the bill to increase military tribunals' jurisdiction and thus revive the constitutional reform, which the Constitutional Court annulled last year due to procedural shortcomings.
Read more Lawyers and Justice
By Mauricio García Villegas |
The State has greater interest in regulating certain professions over others. That depends on how much it affects public interest.
Read more Law of Fallow Lands: Great Business through the Conquest of the Last Agricultural Frontier
By Aura Bolívar Jaime, Sergio Chaparro Hernández |
The sociologist Alfedro Molano, one of the few scholars who studied peasant migrations in the national geography, tells many stories about the rural countryside that are, in fact, a single one.
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