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The selection of the Justice of Peace

With the march of the members of the FARC to the selected zones and the sessions in the Congress that have been integrating the agreement to the Colombian legislation, the Peace Agreement becomes a tangible reality. Not without uncertainties and without much bullying.

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Reasons for mandatory voting

The question about mandatory voting resurfaces with the Government's proposal to include it in the package of reforms derived from the peace agreement. The discussion is deep, has occurred in many countries and involves arguments and studies that must be considered with pause.

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It’s not Trump, it’s the United States: a history of racism and xenophobia

The idea of nation is beautiful. But I believe, as a US citizen, that as long as fear subsists, the idea will remain just that.
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Trampling on rights by judicial order: the risks of presidential appointments of judges in a personalist era

Since Trump ascended to the seat of Lincoln, political personalism has taken over the most powerful nation in the world.  Now with the selection of the ultraconservative Neil Gorsuch as nominee to the Supreme Court, the politicization of justice is sharpened, and so is the scrutiny of the system to designate judges to the high courts. Read the…
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A weak and temporary court does not serve peace

To guarantee a proper normative implementation of the peace accord, we need an independent and very strong Constitutional Court both in the political and in the technical sense.

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Enough is enough!

In the last two years, every three days on average, a social leader or human rights defender was murdered.

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Private life in a public way

The new Police Code confuses privacy with staying at home and targets the right to privacy. 

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From guerrilleros to forest rangers

The end of war, as war itself, has paradoxical effects on nature. The most well-known impacts are the destructive ones: the poisoning of rivers through illegal mining that has financed guerrillas and paramilitaries alike; the contamination of soil due to the bombing of oil pipelines by the ELN, the rents imposed by FARC for coca crops in national parks, the forever dried-up wetlands by paramilities who cultivated palm. 

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A decade of dignity

On February 7th, 2007, the Constitutional Court ended with the legal apartheid against same-sex couples by recognizing their constitutional protection and extending the patrimonial protection under the same conditions as heterosexual couples.

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