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The International Criminal Court and Negotiated Peace: Lessons from Colombia

In Colombia, a too rigid understanding of the duty to prosecute and the “interests of justice” in the Rome Statute threaten the possibility of negotiating an end to the armed conflict.
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Territorial Peace without Environmental Peace?

Cajamarca-- This week, in a session of the city council meeting of this corner of Tolima, it was clear that the future of peace is in municipalities like this one, as the national Government and the United Nations have said.

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Trusting Each Other’s Choices


If the Colombian Constitutional Court trusts that heterosexuals and homosexuals alike can decide who makes up their families, the debate about homoparental families should not end. 

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Santos’ Plan without Afros

Should the Santos administration have consulted afro-descendent communities before presenting the National Development Plan before Congress? 

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Should the Use of the Bull Plaza for Bullfighting Be Decided by Popular Consultation?


New "For and Against" session by the newspaper @ElEspectador. Lawyer César Rodríguez-Garavito and columnist Antonio Caballero argue their positions.

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The ICC and Negotiated Peace: Reflections from Colombia

 

The Colombian case shows the need for flexibility in balancing the duty to prosecute international crimes with the duty to negotiate an end to the civil war.

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State-Sanctioned Femicide: How Criminalizing Abortion Puts Women’s Lives at Risk

We know that criminalizing and limiting access to abortion does not lower abortion rates; it just endangers the lives of women who resort to illegal, clandestine, and dangerous forms of abortion.
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From #JeSuisCharlie to #YoSoyBonil

The court hearing tomorrow, in which the Ecuadorian cartoonist Xavier Bonil (also known as Bonil) could be convicted, evinces the Correa administration's growing intolerance against satire and civil liberties.

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Referendum as Process

One of the problems with the discussion about a referendum on the peace accord in that many give it at least two different meanings, which are linked but are important to distinguish, to debate the issue more productively and find better solutions.

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