The Banality of Evil
In a recent interview, Timochenko attempts to change the FARC’s image as a cruel and soulless group.
Read MoreWhy Not a Constitutional Constituent Assembly?
In other op-eds I have explained the enormous risks of a constitutional constituent assembly as a popular vote mechanism for the peace accord.
Read MoreThe Day the Court Heard Atrato
Last week, the members of Constitutional Court Judge Jorge Iván Palacio’s office conducted a judicial inspection of the Atrato River to determine the contamination due to illegal mining in the zone.
Read MoreJudiciary: Time To React!
The judiciary should react to its legitimacy and credibility crisis.
Read MoreThe National Museum of Memory: A Moral Duty
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“This is a permanent process of creating memory. These are the pieces of brick that we brought for the construction of this, our memory This painful clay will be transformed, and we will be strengthened in the unity of our dreams” (Reference to Salón del Nunca Más, Granada, Antioquia)
Read MoreDefending the Ombudsman’s Office
The forced and late resignation of the Ombudsman opens the possibility for president Santos to unleash a virtious cycle: reinforce a far-reaching institution like the ombudsman’s office, regain the prestige of the ombudsman’s post, and improve gender equity at the highest levels of government.
Read MorePiketty and Inequality
Professor Thomas Piketty gave a talk this week in the Universidad Externado. The auditorium was packed and what impressed me most was the attendance of a good part of the country’s economic and political decisionmakers.
Read MoreA World with Hunger
The problem of world hunger is not due to scarcity of food, but rather because of inequality accessing it.
Read MoreLessons of a Resignation
Little comes out of the ex-ombudsman Otálora’s resignation if with it the debate about sexual harrassment ends. If there was something good about the scandal, it was the collective indigation and the visibility that it gave to the mistreament that many workers bear in silence, and the sexual harrasment that many women suffer in offices, universities, and other places.
Read MoreHow Legal Is It to Record Videos of Citizens and Upload Them to the Internet?
The democratic approval of peace
The agreement about land indicates that the negotiations at Havana are advancing. This begs an important question: an eventual agreement between the Government and FARC,should be submitted to a form of endorsement or democratic approval, such as a popular consultation?
Read MoreSub-rules to access or reject access to information
In this document, Dejusitica collected the principal legal sub-rules, derived from an analysis of judicial opinions that were issued between the years 2006 to 2013 by the Constitutional Court and the Inter American Court of Human Rights. Dejusticia restricted its analysis to opinions related to access to information, the restriction of information due to public interest, particularly when this restriction is based on rationales such as security and the functioning of justice.
The applied methodology involves a critical follow-up of the judicial task, selecting the sub-rule or normative principle that served as the core for each jurisprudential decision and, at the same time, constitutes a linking norm for another similar actual situation. Additionally, the methodology includes opinions that do not necessarily include the ratio decidendi or a unique reason that explains the decision of the case, if the cases present reasonable parameters to follow, that will be useful for the solution of similar future cases.
Read MoreThe silence of the Pacific Aliance
The Pacific Aliance will be the main commercial bloc in America.
Read MoreProcuring the revocation
Counteracting the Law and common sense, the Ombudsman office pretends that the mayors that are threatened from revocation do not stand up for their government nor oppose to those who pretend to shorten their period.
Read MoreA visa for another country
I read in El Tiempo that the Colombian passport “opens increasingly more doors”, meanwhile I gather a bunch of documents required by European countries to grant us a visa. This is the third Schengen visa that I apply for in six months, because each one is useful for the short period of a trip.
Read MoreThe political participacion of former members of FARC: A thorny road, but viable
Otorgar, restringir o condicionar el ejercicio de derechos políticos a los ex guerrilleros será parte obligatoria de la transición hacia la vida civil una vez se produzcan los acuerdos de paz. Análisis jurídico, político e histórico. Balas por votos “Todos los procesos de paz exitosos en el mundo llevan a una transformación de los grupos…
Read MoreConsumers of all countries, united!
The collapse of the factory, which caused the death of hundreds of workers in Bangladesh rises transcendental questions, as César Rodríguez showed in his last Op-Ed.
Read MoreThe Superior Council of the Judiciary: an opportunity for a bad design of
The operation of all justice depends on this body, which however lacks- almost on purpose – of democratic independence, technical capacity and the necessary representativeness.
Read MoreMade in Bangladesh
If you believe the recent death of more than one thousand seamstresses in Bangladesh is a foreign issue, look at the label of your pants.
Read MoreA bittersweet anniversary
Today is the seven-year anniversary of the right to abortion in Colombia. A right in full compliance and, therefore the state has the obligation to guarantee the provision of this service.
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