Venezuela and Human Rights
If war, according to Clausewitz, is the continuation of politics by other means, then human rights are the limit of both politics and war.
Read MoreThe Law Is Not Neutral
It is fundamental that everything in the judiciary, from the investigation by the Prosecutor’s Office to the sentence at Court, not be neutral in terms of gender.
Read MoreWhat Can We Do to Prevent the Imprisonment of Innocent People in Latin America?
Preventing erroneous detentions and wrongful convictions should be a priority of the criminal justice system.
Read MoreUniversal Transitional Justice?
Ex-President Gaviria correctly claims that a equitable and sustainable peace deal in Colombia perhaps will require transitional justice mechanisms not only to broker peace with the guerrillas, but also other actors involved in the internal conflict, such as state agents and funders.
Read MoreSex and Morals
In Christianity’s origins sex did not have much importance. The essence of Jesus of Nazaret’s message, say teologans, can be summarized into two ideas: love your neighbor and prepare yourself, with faith and repentance, for the Final Judgement.
Read MoreTransitional Justice for Everyone?
President Gaviria’s ideas about peace are extremely useful if they are taken as the author suggests: as thoughts for a debate where they would have to be made more precise and adapted. But interpreted as some have done— like finished proposals— they are as problematic as incomplete.
Read MoreReferendum and Adoption
Viviane Morales’ main argument for a referendum regarding adoption by same-sex couples bases itself on an incomplete idea of democacy: democracy as the rule of the majority. However, it is precisely this lone premise that is incompatible with our democratic model.
Read MoreHow Racism and Classism Undergird Climate Adaptation Strategies
Mitigating the harm will undoubtedly require far-reaching adaptation policies that will further benefit the North globally and middle and upper classes locally. Why? Existing knowledge and capital asymmetries.
Read MoreGay Prejudices
Promiscuity, instability, pedophilia, HIV, among other opinions, threathen the LGBTI community members’ lives and exercise of rights.
Read MoreCollective Novel
When deciding a case where the law is ambiguous, should a judge impose their moral convictions, even if it affects the law’s coherence? Or should they protect the law’s consistency, even if this goes against their personal morals?
Read MorePrivate vices, public virtues
The privacy of public figures is not the same as the one of a normal man or woman.As announced by the Hungarian movie from which I stole the title for this column, transparency in family, personal, and social relationships of public figures does care.
Read MoreImpunity, despair, and punitive populism
Violence and crime, with high doses of impunity, lead to despair and are a fertile ground for proposals of punitive tightening.
Read MoreThe abortion reform bill: will we achieve a reasonable debate?
The debate of the proposed abortion bill should be restricted to discuss the legitimacy of the three cases for non-criminal penalties established by the Court.
Read MorePenalties for discrimination
Johana Acosta, the Cartagena lawyer that was discriminated due to her skin color, has been waiting several years for justice.
Read MoreJail for discriminating?
The Congress is preparing to reconcile the passage of a law that criminalizes segregation, but more debate is needed.
Read MoreThe war on drugs: an injustice of 40 years
“Americans will always do the right thing, after they’ve exhausted all the other alternatives”.
Read MoreJudicial independence: democratic or corporative?
Judicial reform projects submitted by the Government and the State Council also had to worry about the Judiciary to make it more transparent, accountable, and democratic.
Read MoreAn anti-democratic reform
Even if the majority of Colombian population was against abortion, this would not be a valid argument to ban it. The essence of democracy is not the dictatorship of the majority, but the guarantee of the rights of everyone.
Read MoreIntervention of Rodrigo Uprimny in the case Atal Riffo and daughters vs. Chile
On August 23, at the public hearing of the Interamerican Court of Human Rights, Rodrigo Uprimny participated as an expert in the case of Atala Riffo and daughters vs. Chile.
Read MoreThe dual personality of the State
When talking about respect for labor rights the rhetoric of governments has no limits. However, at the time of recruiting the state is the first to violate the workers rights. Is it different now?
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