Posts Tagged ‘Derechos políticos’
The World Currently
Around these days we commemorate the anniversary of two events that have had impacts on the world’s course.
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 MoreWonderful Plays
There are star soccer players who have made amazing plays outside the field. In extreme and tragic situations they displayed audaciously human gestures without concern for the risks. Now that the World Cup is getting closer, it is worth remembering these other plays by some of the greatest soccer players.
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 MoreIrrelevant political rights?
Colombia is far from being a country protective of political rights. But now, it not only fails to protect them it also openly disparages them.
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 MoreElectoral Fraud
In Colombia, politicians don’t resign themselves to losing. Once a congressional election for is over we witness the same ritual of the losers denouncing that the winners committed fraud (along with the electoral authorities).
Read MoreBlank Votes: Who Wins?
The blank vote appears to be a strike against political clientelism. But in reality, at least in the congressional elections this Sunday, it is strike against the public itself, since it favors the clientelist machinery.
Read MoreLess than What the Land Gives Us
According to a popular saying, societies have the governments they deserve, and by extension, the customs and politicians they deserve. There is something both true and false about this saying.
Read MoreThe Bullying Continues
Based on all the criticism the Inspector General´s Office received (including from those who did not support Petro), some of us thought, mistakenly, that the Inspector General would calm down.
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 MoreIntervention on the constitutionality of the re-election referendum
Intervention in challenge to the constitutionality of the re-election referendum. The intervention requests the Court to declare unconstitutional the law that calls for the aforementioned referendum.
Read MoreAmicus brief before the Inter-American Court regarding access to information in Venezuela
Dejusticia presented an amicus brief in the case of Ríos y otros vs. Venezuela in the Inter-American Court of Human Rights regarding violations of article 13 and 1.1 of the American Convention.
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