Posts Tagged ‘Colombia’
Law and Honor
One time I found myself with a foreign colleague that moved to Colombia. I asked how he was doing and he said he was doing very well, that he loved traveling through the country and enjoy the diversity of climates, fruits, and landscapes.
Read MoreDemocratic Judicial Independence
Jules Jouy, a nineteenth century Frenchman, said that there were three types of judges: those that decide standing, those that decide sitting in their chairs, and those that decide laying face down.
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 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 MoreEulogy to Shame
Only in Colombia can someone like Álvaro Uribe Vélez accuse someone like Antanas Mockus of cheating.
Read MoreSantos’ Plan without Afros
Should the Santos administration have consulted afro-descendent communities before presenting the National Development Plan before Congress?
Read MoreShould the Use of the Bull Plaza for Bullfighting Be Decided by Popular Consultation?
New “For and Against” session by the newspaper @ElEspectador. Lawyer César Rodríguez-Garavito and columnist Antonio Caballero argue their positions.
Read MoreThe ICC and Negotiated Peace: Reflections from Colombia
The Colombian case shows the need for flexibility in balancing the duty to prosecute international crimes with the duty to negotiate an end to the civil war.
Read MoreBetween All or Nothing
According to the government, the program “Merit Pays” (Spanish “Ser Pilo Paga”) is an educational revolution.
Read MoreThe Judiciary: Not Only Better Salaries But Also a More Horizontal Justice
One of the most famous and celebrated judges in the history of the American judiciary is Learned Hand.
Read MoreFreedom to Smoke
Smoking is an act of freedom, some say while they light a cigarette. The Marlboro man comes to time, riding through the plains to the rhythm of his smoke circles.
Read MoreIs Spraying Addictive?
Instead of once again spraying illegal crops, the government should rethink this issue and ask itself it has not fallen in to a very harmful addition. Pathological additions generate a growing need to consumer more substances that produce the desired effect less and less, and instead cause greater harm. But because of their dependence, the addict continues to consume at a great cost.
Read MoreSanctions for Teenagers in the Judicial District of Medellin
Dejusticia designed a system to monitor the sanctions imposed on teenagers by the Criminal Responsibility System for Teenagers (SRPA in Spanish). This document describes how it worked and the results of the pilot-test.
Read More#TheDayWeFightBack
The ease with which we are able scan voices and data generates abuses that affect other equally valid objectives: intimacy, freedom of expression, integrity and life.
Read MoreMonitoring Criminal Sanctions imposed on Teenagers: Formulating a Methodolgy
In this document we describe the watch group monitoring criminal sanctions imposed on teenagers under the Criminal Responsibility System for Teenagers (SRPA in Spanish).
Read MoreCancer, Biotechnology Medicines and the Debate about Market Competition
Cancer rates are growing.
The International Agency for Research on Cancer of the World Health Organization (WHO), released it’s World Report on Cancer for 2014 last Monday, February 3, 2014.
Read MoreLet’s Talk about Education
The most important questions and the best answers. A better country in the short or long term, one way or another, will come from reforming education in Colombia
Read MoreInequality
Mockingly, people used to say that middle class Latin Americans dreamed of being like the Americans from the United States, while the upper class dreamed of being like the Europeans.
Read MoreShould They Put Up with It?
Should the neighbors of a police station, who suffer damage to their property or their person from guerrilla attacks directed against the police station, tough it out and assume the cost of these injuries on their own? Or, should the state compensate them so they can rebuild their lives?
Read MorePrison laws and Drugs: Any changes?
A few days ago, the new Prison Law came into force with the goal of reducing the structural problems of the prison system.
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