Activists can look to strategies activists from the South employed to claim ESCR rights before courts recognized their justiciability.

Bullfighting is "a civilizing act, the confrontation between reason and force, in which reason comes out triumphant," says the Public Prosecutor Ordóñez.

The 12 members and two reporters of the "historical commission on the conflict and its victims," created by the committee of La Havana, are respectable academics that know well the Colombian war.

When I go out on the street in Bogotá and I pass through busy areas, it bothers me that people bump into me, or even brush past me, without apologizing or saying "I'm sorry."

Two events last week gave much to talk about in Colombia. In the morning, a female minister from Santos' cabinet spoke on a radio program about her relationship with another female office minister. These declarations unsettled a sector of society that still today reproach a same-sex couple so close to power and a lesbian education minister.

Colombia is close to legalizing medicinal marihuana. The bill drafted by senator Juan Manuel Galán seeks to authorize, in the head of government, the growing, harvest and use of cannabis for scientific research or for the creation of therapeutic or medicinal products.

The more I learn about Rafael Correa's actions in Ecuador, the more I feel transported to the Colombia of Álvaro Uribe.

Political participation of racial-ethnic minorities is fundamental to enrich public debate and pluralism in any democracy

The Court's decision to allow Verónica to adopt her partner Ana's two biological children is not only juridically correct, but also above all profoundly fair and humane.