Through a tutela initiative, citizens want that the television commercial on the possible health effects of sugary drinks that the Industry and Commerce Oversight Office prohibited is played again.

In Colombia, there are increasingly more judges that step away from a rigid vision of the law, seeking to improve the human condition and the rule of law through intelligence, balance, integrity, patience, persuasion, and commitment. 

Dejusticia filed a lawsuit against the new norms related to protests and manifestations in Law 1801 of 2016 before the Constitutional Court on the grounds of being unconstitutional. 

Donald Trump’s presidency creates serious risks and challenges for human rights globally, but this victory could have an unexpected positive effect: to push the human rights movement to carry out transformations in its architecture and changes in its strategy that were imperative even before Trump, and that are now urgent.

Last week, the Senate's plenary approved in a second debate the proposal of a referendum by senator Viviane Morales, which aims to limit adoption only to heterosexual couples, excluding single individuals (both heterosexual and homosexual) and same-sex couples. Throughout a sad debate, the discriminatory spirit of this initiative became visible.

The Court's judgment on fast track was not only very difficult; it was a "tragic case", following Professor Manuel Atienza's logic, since there is no good legal solution because any decision sacrifices an important value.

The decision of the Constitutional Court on the Peace Legislative Act is at the same time reassuring and worrying.

2016 is ending and I cannot find a better title to encapsulate it that the one of Martín Caparrós' op-ed: "the year in which we crashed against ourselves.'"

I don’t believe, as some feminists would contend, that gender or patriarchy are necessarily the primary defining structures of society. And I still don’t believe that there is a special place in hell for women who don’t vote for the female candidate, even the historic one. But I have come to believe that in this moment, we ignore questions of gender at our peril