César Rodríguez Garavito coordinator of the Observation of Racial Discrimination analyzes an exclusive of the forms of racism in Colombia for “semana.com”.

Diana Rodríguez Franco, from Dejusticia, maintains that the decision from the Government of the United States of modifying the Free Trade agreement opens a door for changing the clauses from the Treaty that are not convenient and unconstitutional.

The Center of Socio-legal Investigations (CIJUS) at the University of the Andes in collaboration with the Process of Black Communities (PCN) and the Center for Studies of Rights, Justice and Society (Dejusticia), began today May 17th the job workshops about racial discrimination in Cali and Buenaventura.

This article, through an analysis of the evolution of anti-drug politics in 1989, develops the metaphor of the addictive character to the “war on drugs”. The central thesis is that, just as an addict feels the compulsion to consume more of certain substances each time they use with each use a production of a less pleasant effect, the anti-drug strategy resorts to increasingly more intense repressions with very few effects on the supply of drugs. On the other hand, that repression causes serious evil effects, such as the increase of violence and corruption associated with the drug trafficking mafia, or the development of an authoritarian and invasive criminal law. The article finishes with a so-called lucky detoxification of the anti-drug politics that achieves responsible criminal politics set against drugs.

Rodrigo Uprimny, director of Dejusticia, argues that the governmental proposal to penalize drug use is because of the addictive nature of the repression of drugs.

More than 20 journalists of the most important mass media participated in the Course in International System of Human Rights, promoted by Dejusticia and the Spanish Agency of International Cooperation. The wealth and the severity of the information about human rights are fundamental in countries with serious humanitarian crisis, such as Colombia.