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Technical Report for Alternatives to Imprisonment for Drug-Related Offenses

By Diana Esther Guzmán Rodríguez, Jorge Alberto Parra Norato, Rodrigo Uprimny Yepes, Sergio Chaparro Hernández | May 13, 2015

This document, which was prepared by a Technical Working Group led by Rodrigo Uprimny and made up of experts from the region, offers a range of alternatives to imprisonment that countries in the Americas could implement.

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The Right to Government: The Legal Effects of Institutional Apartheid in Colombia

By José Rafael Espinosa Restrepo, Mauricio García Villegas | February 26, 2014

This book defends the idea that people living in isolated territories have a right to institutional assistance; in other words, they have a right to government. Not just to any government, but one that that protects their dignity and their rights.

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Altered State: Clientelism, Mafias and Institutional Weakness in Colombia

By Javier Eduardo Revelo Rebolledo, Mauricio García Villegas | October 15, 2010

This book articulates a comprehensive vision of not only the the social and political effects of the paramilitary phenomenon in Colombia, but also of the institutional and legal weaknesses of the Colombian government, which has been captured by mafias and political actors.

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Judges Without the State

By Mauricio García Villegas | November 5, 2008

This book is the outcome of a research made in Colombia between 2005 and 2007 on judges working in armed conflict zones in Colombia.

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Technical Report for Alternatives to Imprisonment for Drug-Related Offenses

The Right to Government: The Legal Effects of Institutional Apartheid in Colombia

Altered State: Clientelism, Mafias and Institutional Weakness in Colombia

Judges Without the State

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