Hacked
By César Rodríguez-Garavito (Retired in 2019) |
Governments have taken advantage of a legal and informative vacuum to turn their critics' cell phones into surveillance devices. It is essential to update the legislation and require government entities to disclose how they use electronic surveillance systems.
Read more For a stable peace, a sensible opposition
By Daniel Marín |
One of the most difficult wounds to heal from the armed conflict is closely related to the democratic debate. In the post-conflict period, democracies tend to be at their weakest point. Hence why a sensible dialogue between political forces is a condition for the prosperity of peace.
Read more Judicial impartiality
By Rodrigo Uprimny Yepes |
By not recusing himself from voting on a fast track ruling, Justice Bernal violated his judicial duties and placed the Court and the country in a difficult situation: the possibility of revoking the sentence increases legal uncertainty and political polarization.
Read more The debts we owe to female coca growers
By Margarita Martínez Osorio |
Although women growers face particular contexts of discrimination, poverty and workload, the decree creating the Program for the Substitution of illicit crops did not include a gender approach.
Read more The easy case of Justice Bernal
By César Rodríguez-Garavito (Retired in 2019) |
The case of Justice Bernal, who would be unable to vote in a fast track ruling, is easy: it should lead to the nullity of that sentence.
Read more The Salamanca frog
By Rodrigo Uprimny Yepes |
Instead of contemplating the greatness of disarmament, which opens the door to peace, many critics have stubbornly sought out the "frog" and say that the process was all a farce. Even if it received UN verification.
Read more A hint of cosmopolitanism
By Mauricio García Villegas |
Perhaps the next great revolution in the history of mankind will no longer happen in a country (as in Russia in 1917 or in France in 1789), but throughout the world and be the result of the coordination of actions of millions of people.
Read more The luck of prohibition: Bloomsday
By Vivian Newman Pont |
The history of art is plagued with censorship. Ulysses, by the Irish author James Joyce, was banned for more than ten years and went to trial three times for being considered obscene.
Read more Dangerous arbitration
By Rodrigo Uprimny Yepes |
The investment treaty with France, which provides clauses of arbitration and indirect expropriation, was approved during a third debate in Congress. The treaty could be approved in the next few days without much analysis or discussion. And it should not be so because the risk of these treaties is enormous.
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