Justice’s Time
By Mauricio García Villegas |
According to the World Justice Project published this year, Colombia ranks 79th out of 99 in criminal justice effectiveness.
Read more Healthy Solutions
By César Rodríguez-Garavito (Retired in 2019) |
I was writing this op-ed when an acquaintance asked me:
Read more To whom does San Andrés belong to?
By Ana Margarita González Vásquez, Carlos Andrés Baquero Díaz |
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.
Read more Long Live the Students
By Nathalia Sandoval Rojas |
The students of Mexico and Nigeria painfully remember the importance and precariousness of the right to education.
Read more Civil Society Answers to Corporate Capture
By Ana Margarita González Vásquez |
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.
Read more Victims: Beyond Media Noise
By Nelson Camilo Sánchez León |
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.
Read more The Moral Duty to Disqualify Oneself
By Rodrigo Uprimny Yepes |
Alejo Durán, the first king of vallenato, and for many the greatest vallenato musician, not only left us the legacy of his great music, but also a lesson on dignity and ethics that we ought to remember in this time of so many indignities.
Read more The World Currently
By Mauricio García Villegas |
Around these days we commemorate the anniversary of two events that have had impacts on the world's course.
Read more Lobster for Everyone?
By César Rodríguez-Garavito (Retired in 2019) |
"The Constitutional Court wants all Colombians to eat lobster," says Alejandro Gaviria in Semana.
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