The victims of natural disasters also need historical memory
By Camila Bustos |
This was the same government that after the tragedy of Mocoa applied a new response apparatus that failed to take into account the 2011 rainy season.
Read more Attention to GAFA
By César Rodríguez Garavito (Se retiró en 2019) |
It's time to look at GAFA through a magnifying glass, as Google, Amazon, Facebook and Apple are known, the dominant companies of the digital era.
Read more Why we are demanding the Colombian government halt deforestation
By Camila Bustos |
We argue that deforestation in the Colombian Amazon is violating our constitutional right to a healthy environment, which in turn threatens our right to life, water, food, and health. We, the future generations, are 25 youth who will have to face the impacts of climate change and deforestation the rest of our lives.
Read more For a pact against murders
By Rodrigo Uprimny Yepes |
The photo with the honest smile of the murdered social leader Temístocles Machado and his interviews or articles about his life and his struggle put a face to the violence against social leaders.
Read more The State of Disunion
By Mauricio García Villegas |
Last Tuesday, President Donald Trump delivered his first State of the Union address. Instead of uniting the nation, as it is expected in these occasions, his words deepened division.
Read more Sexual violence in the municipalities prioritized for peace
By Margarita Martínez Osorio |
It is a priority to establish public policies that demilitarize everyday life and dismantle practices that promote sexual violence in post-conflict scenarios.
Read more They keep killing them
By César Rodríguez Garavito (Se retiró en 2019) |
It is time for civil society to finish the task and solve the problem. That is why it is a moral duty to write about the murder of Afro-Colombian leader Temístocles Machado in Buenaventura.
Read more Victims and press after the war: said and unsaid lessons
By Maria Paula Ángel |
In countries transitioning from war to peace, the search and exhumation of bodies create a tension between the victims' right to privacy and the public interest of reconstructing the collective memory. Given this, how can events related to armed conflict and the transition to peace be narrated without violating the right to privacy of victims?
Read more Silences
By Rodrigo Uprimny Yepes |
Women who have the courage to denounce sexual harassment are often revictimized when faced with numerous obstacles to access justice. In addition, their versions of the events are rarely trusted, when they are not publicly threatened and denigrated. In light of these situation, no one has the right to question the silence of women who have been raped.
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