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Voices from the Coca Fields
Colombia’s response to the country’s drug problem has been based on the repression of the weakest links in the drug chain—namely consumers and small farmers—which has led to disproportionate rates of imprisonment and has involved a heavy focus on forced crop eradication. Not only has such an approach failed to effectively control the cocaine market, but it has also unleashed harmful side effects in terms of security, social development, and human rights as they concern communities in coca-growing areas. Moreover, although scholars and practitioners have analyzed Colombia’s drug problem from a variety of perspectives, these efforts have tended to overlook women’s experiences. This...
Femicide in War and Peace
This book discusses the phenomenon of femicide—the killing of women globally because of their gender—in peacetime and in war. Femicide in war is different from femicide in peace, and yet the dividing line between the two is thin. Violence against women happens in many forms—from emotional, psychological, and financial abuse, and barriers to personal autonomy, to physical and sexual abuse terminating in murder. It includes infanticide, sex selection, misogynistic laws and cultural practices and can include genital mutilation, forced sterilization, or forced pregnancy. Women experience these forms of violence during peacetime, as well as in times of crisis, conflict, or national insecuri...
Dime dónde estudias y te diré qué comes
Los entornos escolares son fundamentales para definir los hábitos de consumo de los niños y las niñas. Teniendo en cuenta este contexto, visitamos 21 colegios en Bogotá a los que asisten alumnos con distinta capacidad económica. El sobrepeso y la obesidad infantil son un problema que va en aumento en Colombia. De hecho, en los últimos 40 años se ha multiplicado por diez el número de personas entre 5 y 18 años con obesidad y, para 2022, se espera que los niños, las niñas y los adolescentes sufran más de obesidad que de bajo peso. Esto es grave, pues la obesidad infantil se asocia con muerte prematura, dificultades respiratorias, enfermedades vasculares y efectos psicológicos. Est...
Asesinatos a líderes sociales en Colombia en 2016–2017
Este análisis de Dejusticia y del Human Rights Data Analysis Group agrupa la información compilada por distintas organizaciones sobre los homicidios de líderes sociales en el país y concluye, a través de un método estadístico, que la problemática tiene una magnitud mayor a la que se reporta. Se realizó la estimación con el insumo de las cifras de seis distintas instituciones que hacen un seguimiento a la evolución de la temática en Colombia. Se tomaron los datos de las organizaciones de la sociedad civil: Somos Defensores, Indepaz y Cumbre Agraria, así como del Alto Comisionado para las Naciones Unidas para los Derechos Humanos en Colombia, la Defensoría del Pueblo y la organiz...
Sobrepeso y contrapesos
Mediante un trabajo de campo en doce colegios de Ciudad Bolívar en Bogotá, este texto muestra la necesidad de que el Estado regule y monitoree la oferta y la publicidad de productos comestibles ultraprocesados en entornos escolares. ¿La regulación en materia de oferta y publicidad de productos comestibles ultraprocesados funciona en Bogotá? ¿La autorregulación por parte de la industria de bebidas azucaradas se está cumpliendo? ¿Los rectores de los colegios de Ciudad Bolívar se preocupan por la alimentación de sus estudiantes? Para responder a estas preguntas se llevó a cabo un trabajo de campo en doce colegios de Ciudad Bolívar en Bogotá. Este texto aborda estas preguntas a par...
Advances in Computing
This book constitutes revised selected papers from the refereed proceedings of the 17th Colombian Conference on Computing on Advances in Computing, CCC 2023, held in Medellin, Colombia, during August 10–11, 2023. The 22 full papers and 11 short papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 68 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Industrial Applications - Industry 4.0 - Precision Agriculture, Artificial Intelligence, Distributed systems and large-scale computing, Computational Statistics, Digital Learning - E-learning, Software Engineering, Human Machine Interaction, Image processing and Computer Vision, Robotics in Industry 4.0 and Scientific Applications.
Standing up for a Sustainable World
The world has witnessed extraordinary economic growth, poverty reduction and increased life expectancy and population since the end of WWII, but it has occurred at the expense of undermining life support systems on Earth and subjecting future generations to the real risk of destabilising the planet. This timely book exposes and explores this colossal environmental cost and the dangerous position the world is now in. Standing up for a Sustainable World is written by and about key individuals who have not only understood the threats to our planet, but also become witness to them and confronted them.
The Colombian Peace Agreement
This book is the first systematic, interdisciplinary examination of the peace agreement signed between the Colombian Government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia to end one of the largest and most violent conflicts in the Western Hemisphere. It discusses the achievements, failures, and challenges of this innovative peace agreement and its implications for Colombia’s future. Contributors include negotiators of the Agreement, judges of the Special Jurisdiction for Peace, representatives of the civil society, and leading academic experts in peace studies, human rights, international law, criminal law, transitional justice, political science, and philosophy. Based on the premise that peace is a form of transferable social knowledge, and therefore necessitates transformative social learning, the volume also discusses what other countries can learn from the Colombian experience. This book will be of much interest to students of peace and conflict studies, transitional justice, Latin American politics, human rights, civil wars and International Relations.
Fraught with Pain
This books seeks to facilitate linkages between discussions on the right to health and discussions on drug policy reform. The populations we talk about here are the noes most in need of a change whereby drug culture measures cease to stand in the way of a life free from pain. The suffering and pain experienced by people with terminal illnesses and people with heroin use disorder can be alleviated through opioids. At the same time, the enforcement of international drug control treaties means that these medicines are subjected to strict controls that create excessive red tape and contribute to generalized fear among patients and health professionals concerning these medicines’ use. Although ...
