Dejusticia and IDEP launch two books about education and human rights
Dejusticia and IDEP launch “Serious Social Rights” and “Six cities, tour countries, one right”, two investigations about education in Colombia and Latin America. Attend: December 5, 2007 at 7pm, Lerner Bookstore (Calle 92 – Cra 15)
Read MoreDejusticia, ILSA, and Fescol invite a forum on ‘Is the FTA constitutional?’
To debate positions about the FTA from a constitutionality point of view, Dejusticia proposes a forum for a respectful and informative debate on this theme on December 4th beginning at 8:00am at the University of Rosario.
Read MoreJudicial Roles, the case of the Lorica judge
In zones of armed conflict there is an official justice that competes with an illegal (or harmless) justice.
Read MoreChávez: Pocket Constitution
César Rodríguez, of Dejusticia, maintains that with Sunday December 2nd referendum in Venezuela, Chávez will have a pocket Constitution.
Read MoreThe vote for social politics
Helena Alviar García considers that the triumph of the Pole in Bogotá’s city hall should be interpreted as a call to continue social politics.
Read MoreThe Political Function of Judges
In recent studies, the role that the Constitutional Courts play (and generally the control of constitutionality of laws) within the political system of the state has been examined. Authors such as Tom Ginsburg and Pedro Magalhaes on one side and Ran Hirschl on the other have opened a controversy that perhaps would be interesting to review in light of the Colombian case. Ginsburg studied the process of establishment of Constitutional Courts in Taiwan, Mongolia and Korea.
Read MoreHypocrisy: the Government against the Pole
The Government’s strategy against the Pole is to cause its leaders to been seen as politicians close to the guerrilla warfare.
Read MoreThe democractic instant
Danilo Rojas, professor at National University and member of Dejusticia, discusses that the only instant which is truly left to feel the constituent power, is each time that there are elections.
Read MoreThree lessons from the elections
The elections leave us with several lessons that should be considered upon debating the proposals of electoral reform.
Read MoreThe Collapse
A good portion of Colombians think that there are many reasons to disobey laws. The problem with disobedience by subjective reasons is that each one overestimates the gravity of his circumstances.
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