Friday, December 02, 2011

A Legal Wasteland – Lawyers, Murder, Democracy, and Justice in Colombia

[1] ‘Colombia: The Legal Profession Still Under Attack – Report of the second international lawyers’ delegation to Colombia’. Lawyers Without Borders Canada and Colombian Caravana UK Lawyers Group. July 6 2011.
[2] Ibid.
[3] ‘No Justice Without Lawyers – Report of the Caravana Internacional de Juristas’. Lawyers’ Human Rights Delegation to Colombia. August 2008. http://international.lawsociety.org.uk/files/Caravana%20Report%205%2005%2009%20FINAL.pdf
[4] ‘Colombia: The Legal Profession Still Under Attack – Report of the second international lawyers’ delegation to Colombia’. Lawyers Without Borders Canada and Colombian Caravana UK Lawyers Group. July 6 2011.
[5] Ibid.
[6] ‘Promotion and Protection of all Human Rights, Civil, Political, Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Including the Right to Development – Report of the Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights Defenders, Margaret Sekaggya’. United Nations – Human Rights Council. March 4 2010. http://daccess-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/G10/116/15/PDF/G1011615.pdf?OpenElement.
[7] Ibid.
[8] Ibid.
[9]Crandall, Russell. Driven By Drugs – US Policy Toward Colombia. London; Lynne Rienner, (2008)  ;  Macy, William L.  The Politics of Cocaine – How US Foreign Policy Has Created a Thriving Drug Industry in Central and South America. Chicago; Lawrence Hill Books, (2010)
[10] Stokes, Doug. America’s Other War: Terrorizing Colombia. London; Zed Books, (2005); Isacson, Adam. ‘Optimism, Pessimism, and Terrorism: The United and Colombia in 2003.’ Brown Journal of World Affairs. X (2) (Winter/Spring 2004).
[11] ‘Colombia: The Legal Profession Still Under Attack – Report of the second international lawyers’ delegation to Colombia’. Lawyers Without Borders Canada and Colombian Caravana UK Lawyers Group. July 6 2011.
[12] DeShazo, Peter. and Vargas, Juan Enrique. ‘Judicial Reform in Latin America – An Assessment’. Center for Strategic and International Studies, Policy Papers on the Americas, Volume XV11, Study 2, http://csis.org/files/media/csis/pubs/0609_latin_judicial_reform.pdf 
[13] ‘Text of the Constitution of Colombia’. The People of Colombia. 1991.
[14] ‘Colombia: The Legal Profession Still Under Attack – Report of the second international lawyers’ delegation to Colombia’. Lawyers Without Borders Canada and Colombian Caravana UK Lawyers Group. July 6 2011.
[15] Ibid.
[16] Ibid.
[17] Ibid.
[18] ‘Basic Principles on the Role of Lawyers’. Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, United Nations, 1990. http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/3ddb9f034.html
[19] Ibid.
[20] Ibid.
[21] ‘Files Point to DAS “Political Warfare” Plan Colombia and Beyond, The Center for International Policy’s Colombia Program. http://www.cipcol.org/?cat=57
[23] Kutner, Jeremy. ‘How Colombia’s President Santos made peace with the judiciary.’ The Christian Science Monitor. April 7 2011.  http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Americas/2011/0407/How-Colombia-s-President-Santos-made-peace-with-the-judiciary
[24] The Colombian government also had to meet a number of additional requirements laid down by the U.S. for the consideration of a new FTA, particularly on the protection of trade unionists and teachers. For more, see Peters, Toni. ‘Colombia has met US FTA requirements: Bogota.’ Colombia Reports. 16 May 2011. http://colombiareports.com/colombia-news/news/16304-colombia-has-met-us-fta-requirements-govt.html
[25] Ellingwood, Ken. ‘Law student clinic in Mexico aims high.’  Los Angeles Times. June 14 2011. http://articles.latimes.com/2011/jun/14/world/la-fg-mexico-legal-clinic-20110614
[26] Rodríguez Múnera, Mauricio. ‘Letters: Colombia Defends its Justice System.’ The Guardian. May 7 2011. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/07/colombia-defends-its-justice-system
[27] Universities and College Union. ‘Colombia’s Dr Miguel Ángel Beltrán absolved of all charges.’ Universities and College Union. June 2011. http://www.ucu.org.uk/drbeltran
[28] Múnera, Mauricio. ‘Letters: Colombia Defends its Justice System.’ The Guardian. May 7 2011. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/07/colombia-defends-its-justice-systema

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