Posts Tagged ‘Congreso’
Drawing lessons from the Colombian elections
The recent elections taught us that previous reforms have reduced a major problem we had in the late 1990s: extreme political fragmentation.
Read MorePraise for the average citizen
In the middle of my task as a voting jury, the following imaginary world occurred to me: what would happen if, instead of selecting the elected politicians to Congress that day, we selected a group of voting juries chosen by lottery?
Read MoreElections for Congress and parliamentarism
Many Colombians think, wrongly, that voting for Congress has little importance because the presidential election is the decisive one. A person who has all the virtues to be a great president but who does not have solid majorities in the chambers can hardly have a good government.
Read MoreCongress elections will be men’s business
A pesar de haber sido un aspecto clave del Acuerdo de paz firmado entre el Gobierno y las FARC, Colombia enfrenta un déficit frente a la participación política de las mujeres. Solo en la inscripción de candidatos al Senado, el 32.9% corresponden a mujeres.
Read MoreInabilities in the Special Jurisdiction for Peace
The Senate’s decision to prohibit people who have litigated human rights cases against the State from becoming JEP (Special Jurisdiction for Peace) magistrates is grossly unconstitutional.
Read MoreThe long wait of the JEP to the Constitutional Court and the Congress’ response
In the last six months civil society organizations, such as Dejusticia, have called on both institutions to give way to the rules that consolidate the Special Jurisdiction for Peace.
Read MoreThe long wait of the JEP ahead of the decisions of the Constitutional Court and Congress
In the last six months civil society organizations, such as Dejusticia, have called on both institutions to give free rein to the norms that consolidate the Special Jurisdiction for Peace.
Read MoreDejusticia intervened in defense of the amnesty law
Dejusticia intervened before the Constitutional Court in the process of constitutional revision of the law that grants amnesties, pardons and special penal treatments (Law 1820 of 2016).
Read MoreThe pressures that advocates for healthy food face
It is no secret that health activists, particularly those taking on the tobacco industry, have faced aggressive, illegal and corrupt tactics deployed by the industries that these activists battle.
Read MoreBorn Before Your Time
The Swiss scientist said once: “Those who believe in progress are destined to lament being born before their time.”
Read MoreIntellectual Impunity and Violence
What relationship exists between the following four individual sentences?
1) Paul Gauguin’s paintings are much more beautiful than Vincent van Gogh’s; 2) God exists as three distinct persons, Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit; 3) the protection of the environment should be done in such a manner that it does not compromise property rights; and 4) energy is neither created nor destroyed, it is only transformed.
Read MoreThe Right Against Sexual Preference Discrimination
Given the evidence of the arduous situation of people discriminated for exercising non-normative sexualities, the law appears as the quickest option in Colombia to guarantee their possibility to enjoy life fully.
Read MoreCongressional Women’s Caucus: A Story to Tell
Legislators formed the Congressional Women’s Caucus during the legislative period 2006-2010. This text seeks to give visibility to this process through the reconstruction of its history, challenges, and achievements.
Read MorePolitical Participation of Women and Political Parties after the 2011 Political Reform
This document analyzes the possible reach and limitations of two of the key requirements of Law 1475 of 2011 in order to identify strategies that will encourage the political participation of women in party politics. Historically, they have suffered from discrimination in their attempts to participate politically.
Read MoreLegislating and Representing? Female Senators’ Agenda in Congress (2006-2010)
In this book we hope to contribute empirically to the issue of women’s political representation in Colombia. Additionally, the book brings attention to the necessity to develop intermediary theoretical proposals that can open the conceptual debate regarding the inclusion and representation of women in the political arena.
Read MoreMembers of Congress by Chance
Senators Bernardo Ñoño and Musa Besaile, from Córdoba, recieved 140,000 and 145,000 votes respectively in this past election.
Read MoreDemocracy without a People
Abraham Lincoln, in his famous Gettysburg speech, characterized democracy as the government of the people, by the people, and for the people.
Read MoreThe Electoral Debate on Drugs
Congressional candidates have broken the taboo. For the first time the debate about drugs and their regulation has taken hold of the campaigns in Colombia.
Read MoreThe second round of the Legal Framework for Peace
Petro’s balcony –and now, Falcao’s knee—have managed to overshadow the recent Constitutional Court decision regarding the Legal Framework for Peace.
Read MoreA Court Scandal?
Is it, as several analysts have pointed out, an abuse, an excessive formalism or cowardice that the Constitutional Court decided to strike down the reform that broadens military jurisdiction because of a procedural problem?
Read MorePrison for Protesting?
It had been a long time since such an objectionable, anti-democratic and unconstitutional piece of legislation, like the one presented by the Minister of Defense, meant to punish with jail time those who go out in to the streets to protest, was presented in Congress.
Read MoreRequest for annulment of appointment of judges of the National Electoral Council
Dejusticia challenged the appointment of judges of the National Electoral Council by Congress. The challenge presents a unique argument according to which the election is invalid because it was done by secret ballot and not through public voting as provided by the Constitution.
Read MoreCitizen Intervention: protecting participation of minority parties in the General Committee of Congress
Dejusticia challenges the constitutionality of Article 40 of Law No. 5 of 1992 (Congress Regulation) which provides that the General Committee of Congress commissions will be chosen by majority rule.
Read MoreAnd they refounded the homeland… On how the mafia and politicians reconfigured the Colombian State
This publication discusses the implications of the capture of the Colombian State by illegal armed groups.
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