Creating visual benchmarks for human rights practice
By Andrés Castro |
There must be a way to incorporate the normative principles of the human rights framework in the visual comparisons that we make.
Peace for women
By Ana Jimena Bautista |
The biggest challenge of 2017 is to consolidate peace. The agreement between the Government and the FARC promises to promote comprehensive rural reform, a process of democratic openness, a system that guarantees the rights of victims of armed conflict and some solutions to the problem of illicit drug use. Promises that should materialize with a gender approach, which came to the Agreement thanks to the persistence of the social movement of women and remained in it, despite having been misrepresented during the campaign of the plebiscite.
Trump’s inauguration
By Nelson Camilo Sánchez León |
The idea of "inauguration" of a new political era rather than a presidential period seems to be more appropriate.
The new world disorder
By César Rodríguez-Garavito (Retired in 2019) |
There are two ways to read the global moment that begins today with Trump as president. The possibility that it is a periodic oscillation of the political pendulum, within the basic contours of the current world order since 1945.
Violence Against Prisoners
By Luis Felipe Cruz |
More than a prison crisis, massive murders in prisons are proof of the institutional weakeness when facing organized crime.
Judges, elections and post-truth
By Rodrigo Uprimny Yepes |
If the policy of post-truth is a threat to democracy as I argued in my last op-ed, a question arises: would the solution be that judges revoke electoral victories based on lies?
Of espionage and bullying
By Vivian Newman Pont |
Two intelligence reports that entangle Donald Trump with the Russians have just been published: the Russian hacking against Hillary Clinton and the espionage against Trump from the Kremlin. Both reports have different origins and credibility, but once again, they reflect the black clouds threatening the neighborhood.
Antidemocratic referendums
By César Rodríguez-Garavito (Retired in 2019) |
Days after the Brexit vote, the economist Kenneth Rogoff publicly opposed referendums and plebiscites like the British one on the European Union or the Colombian one on the peace accord.
Bojayá, the town we left without a voice or a vote
By Daniel Gómez |
"The paramilitaries enter, two weeks later, the FARC enters, and kills half the town." This is how Maxima, a black woman in the Committee for the Rights of the Bojayá Victims, summarizes what happened on May 2, 2002.
