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Creating visual benchmarks for human rights practice

There must be a way to incorporate the normative principles of the human rights framework in the visual comparisons that we make.

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Peace for women

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.

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Trump’s inauguration

The idea of "inauguration" of a new political era rather than a presidential period seems to be more appropriate. 

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The new world disorder

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.

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Violence Against Prisoners

More than a prison crisis, massive murders in prisons are proof of the institutional weakeness when facing organized crime.

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Judges, elections and post-truth

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?

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Of espionage and bullying

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. 

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Antidemocratic referendums

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. 




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Bojayá, the town we left without a voice or a vote

"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.

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