Schools with Manuals that Bully
The student conduct manuals are like a carte blanche of the small kingdoms known as schools.
Read MoreWhat Could Happen If Latin America Questions the Utopia of a World without Drugs at the UN?
The prohibitionist utopia of a “world without drugs” expressed in the Conventions on Narcotic Drugs signed in 1961, 1971, and 1988, is just that: an unreachable utopia.
Read MoreMemory and Atrocities
The French philosopher Jean Francois Lyotard proposed a suggestive metaphor about the difficulty a society has in recording the truth and remembering a period of mass atrocities, like the genocide by the Nazis.
Read MoreRadio Debates
In Colombia the radio has greatly developed, encouraged perhaps by difficult geography and poor communication among regions. Lacking highways, Colombians have communicated through radiowaves.
Read MoreThe Subtle Vengeance of the Law
“The rich don’t need the law because they already have money and power; it is the poor that need the law,” once said Albie Sachs, the lengendary South African activist that advised Mandela in the peace dialogues and became judge of the first post-Apartheid Constitutional Court.
Read MoreAsking For Forgiveness or Permission
Data management cannot be done by any means and much of that data can affect people’s privacy.
Read MoreWatching Out from the South
For now, most anti-corruption activists demand for greater transparency. My specific call is that just as the global South human rights movement has enriched the debate on human rights generally, something similar could happen with anti-corruption monitoring from our countries.
Read MoreThe Politics of Human Rights Policies at the OAS
The relationship of member states with the OAS and the structure of human rights have changed over time. This conference, given within the framework of the event “Impact and Future Directions for the Inter-American Human Rights System” May 29th in Puerto Rico, analyzes in what manner it has evolved.
Read MoreProfamilia’s Campaign
In Colombia abortion is legal in three exceptional cases: when the life or health of the pregnant woman is at risk, when the fetus’ malformations make it impossible from him/her to live outside the uterus, and when the pregnancy is a result of a carnal violation.
Read MoreMore Catholic Than the Pope
For those that were educated in Catholic schools during John Paul II’s papacy, to be more Catholic than the pope meant defending ultraconservative positions on topics like birth control or the rights of women and same-sex couples.
Read MoreCivil society campaign for the adoption of the monitoring indicators of the Protocol of San Salvador
Dejusticia invites the civil society organizations of the Americas to react, in order to secure approval of the Indicators of Progress for the measurement of economic, social, and cultural rights under the Protocol of San Salvador in the General Assembly of the Organization of the American States (OAS) in June 2012.
We’ve been waiting 24 years for the monitoring mechanism to become a reality.
Help us say: ESCR can’t wait longer!
Finally, on June 4, 2012, the General Assembly of the OAS approved indicators.
Read MoreOpen sesame
The legend says the history of the cave of Ali Baba and the forty thieves was not invented by Scheherazade to save himself in One thousand and one nights.
Read MoreLandless serfs
With the National Development Plan has opened the door to go back on what little the country has made in democratization of land ownership.
Read MoreAccess to justice for women. Ordinary justice.
In both Colombia and elsewhere in the world, women need justice services that may be, in a greater or lesser extent, different from those needed by others. In this paper, we study the demand for criminal justice services on behalf of women and the difficulties they encounter when accessing the judicial system.
Read More“RECOGNIZE THE PAST, BUILD THE FUTURE”
Report on violence against trade union members between 1984 and 2011.
Read MoreWomen candidates to the General Attorney’s Office
President Santos should propose only female candidates for the Supreme Court to elect an Attorney so that this Office continues being led by a woman.
Read More“Hyper-presidencialism is a perversion of the Rule of Law”
Latin America has made progress in their legal systems, but not all are seen on the political scene. According to the interviewee, this is due to the fact that these changes are not strongly demanded by society.
Read MoreProsecutor’s against the Court
For how long will the crusade launched by the Prosecutor against abortion be used to justify the breach of its obligations?
Read MoreA critical look at law in Latin America
There is no need to interrupt César Rodríguez Garavito.
Read MoreColombian “pigmentocracy”
Does skin color matter? Does having white skin bring advantages while being black reduce them? These are the questions being solved in a research led by Edward Telles at Princeton University.
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