Memory help
Danilo Rojas insists on the role of the chronicle of the reconstruction in our historic memory.
Read MoreDrug Trafficking, politics and the paramilitary
Rodrigo Uprimny argues that the Supreme Court decision shows that the responsibility of the paramilitary in Colombia is not just of drug trafficking but of the persistence of antidemocratic structures in agrarian property and in Colombian politics.
Read MoreThe cause of the fault
Vice President Santos, launches an advertising campaign in Europe, in which he suggests a relationship between consumers and drugs, confusing the cause with the fault, and he declares that this type of advertising pokes the American prohibitionist spirit in Europe.
Read MoreDelivering the Constitution?
Juan Fernando Jaramillo affirms that the Constitution of 1991 represents an important civic conquest and that it requires leaving behind the idea that all future processes of peace automatically implies the assembly of the National Constituent Assembly.
Read MoreLand and impunity
Danilo Rojas, of DeJuSticia, calls attention to the need to articulate regular public politics and those related to the demobilization process.
Read MoreDreaming of what we have?
This article comments on a book by Eduardo Posada Carbó and concludes that the country thinks the author doesn’t give a sufficient answer to the problems of democracy and human rights that face Colombians.
Read MoreWhy the fright of equality?
Helena Alviar García analyzes why the governmental bill #130 of the 2005; by which measures relating to the social protection of same-sex couples is dictated, generates so much fear.
Read MoreAgainst nationalism
The author considers that to surpass insecurity it is necessary to change the current political organization to a cosmopolitan organization that surpasses the old notion of state sovereignty.
Read MoreShould Courts enforce social rights? The Experience of the Colombian Constitutional Court
The debate about the convenience of the judicial enforcement of social rights is one of the major issues that theories of law and democracy are facing today. It is a very difficult discussion, because there are strong arguments in favor of both positive and negative answers. While some argue that social rights must be judicially protected or else they are not real rights, others fear this protection will unavoidably drive to an antidemocratic government by judges.
Read MoreThe presentation by the Director of DeJusticia before the First Commission of the Honorable House of Representatives
The presentation by Rodrigo Uprimny (Ph.D) in the debate organized by the Honorable House of Representatives, for the discussion of different proposals presented before the legislature on the theme of guardianships against judicial sentences (TCPJ) – Project of Legislative Act No. 133/06 House and No. 13/06 of Accumulated Senate.
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