Posts Tagged ‘Pobreza’
Insecurity: desperate measures
Justice through people’s own hands and the deaths in neighborhoods fights show the failure of the State in several sectors of the city, especially those that are outside the tourist circuit.
Read More“La señorita María” will not make part of the census
The census that began this week does not have the questions to properly account for the LGBT population, or the peasant population, or to evaluate multidimensional poverty.
Read MoreWhy talk about rural Cartagena?
91.1% of Cartagena is rural: according to the SISBEN, approximately 70,000 of those who live in the 551 square kilometers face a situation of vulnerability. There, extreme poverty is four times what it is in urban areas.
Read MoreGoing beyond Numbers: Energy Poverty and Coal
Fighting coal should not only be a matter of number, but of rights.
Read MoreGreece and Legacies of Violence
What if we considered these problems not simply as a threat to a notion of peace undergirding the European project, but also as part and parcel of that project’s related legacy of violence?
Read MoreBefore the Courts: Judicial Needs and Access to Justice in Colombia
This book aims to be the most comprehensive diagnosis of legal needs and access to justice conducted in Colombia.
Read MoreRace and Housing in Colombia: Residential Segregation and Life Conditions in Cities
This report presents the results of a study on living conditions and residential segregation in twelve cities of Colombia
Read MoreEthics and Economics
Some weeks I can’t find a topic to write about and on others I have too many topics. On this occassion I have in mind three topics: one about the Oxfam report about global inequality published on January 20th, another about President Obama´s State of the Union last Tuesday, and another about a conference that Michael Sandel gave last Thursday at Los Andes University.
Read MoreShopping in Bogotá
For this new year of 2014, I decided to leave behind my usual cheapness. On Christmas Eve, keeping in mind that the traditional wishes for peace and harmony never come true, my wishes took a radical turn.
Read MoreKirchner’s “nac&pop” project
Cristina Kirchner’s government illustrates the risks that populism has for democracy without offering any of its advantage in exchange.
Read MoreScholars and Journalists
It is regrettable that the debate about academic fraud in Colombia has broken out surrounding the case of the scientist Raúl Cuero. But it would be even more regrettable if the debate turned against the researcher Rodrigo Bernal, who did nothing more than what his job demands: to rigorously investigate and publish what he finds (in this case, Cuero’s real record).
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