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This research paper presents a method for the analysis of codes of ethics driven by the strategic interests of the organization. For the review of codes of ethics it is important understand your value structure. The first step consists in a statistical analysis of terms that denote values. The second step consists in a semantical network analysis of the code. This method is presented on the example of the code of ethics of the Fiscalía General de la Nación, Colombia (2008). The proposed method is able to detect, in a detailed manner, emphasis as well as biases in the values' structure of codes of ethics. Thus, it is possible to propose revisions of codes of ethics that are guided by the organization's strategic values. The proposed method fills a void in the literature in relation to general methods for the analysis of codes of ethics with strategic goals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article attempts a bibliographic review of the growth and the characteristics of the population identified as atheist, agnostic or non-affiliated to any religion in Colombia. Based on the review of research papers press articles and information available on blogs and web pages on the subject, it aims to characterize this population in aspects such as its positions about spirituality, ethics, science, and politics. It also proposes some hypothesis about the causes of the growth of this sector of the population and on the relationship of this growth with the secularization of Colombian society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In 1997, Colombia's Constitutional Court decriminalized the medical practice of euthanasia in patients with serious and incurable diseases. Decision C-239 became one of the most radical advancements on the right to die debates in the world. At the time, European countries who have led this discussion, such as the Netherlands, hadn't legalized and incorporated the right to die into their own legal systems. In 2015, Colombia's Constitutional Court authorized the first legal clinical euthanasia in the country through a constitutional process also known as tutela on behalf of 79-year old Ovidio González. Mr. González decided to die at a clinic due to the suffering that he was experiencing while battling throat cancer. In this paper, I analyze the reasoning behind Decision C-239 and the long pathway to its implementation in the first Latin American country to legalize euthanasia. I will also examine other constitutional actions presented by terminal patients in defense of their right to die. The objective of this article is to provide routes of constitutional strategic litigation for advocates in other countries by building upon Colombia's experience, and to study the role of the Constitutional Court in shaping ethical debates such as euthanasia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

One of the press means to distinguish or delay a piece of news, whether because of liking or disliking, is to deliberately display it in a better or worse place on the issues' pages. Neither objectivity nor neutrality are usually present when the piece of news to be edited is somehow against the interests of the publishing company. Subjectivity is at its height. From that remark, the author has created a method to take into account neutrality deviation in the cases of controversy between two characters, a "duel" which becomes a mass media one as it's on the papers for various weeks, with obvious sympathies favouring one of the contenders and manifest antipathies against the other participant in the controversy, with expressions of mass media preferences. The devised methodology has been applied to the analysis of the message originated between 23rd November 2007 and 10th January 2008, with the controversy between the Presidents of the Republics of Colombia, Álvaro Uribe, and Venezuela, Hugo Chávez, because of the steps given by the latter in favour of the release of hostages of the Colombian FARCs. The units of analyses have been the 43 texts published by El País (Madrid), a newspaper in open belligerence against the Bolivarian government of Caracas and with great investments in Bogotá, whose president decorated the owner of the paper's publishing company. The rehearsed method is applicable to any treatment which a newspaper may give during weeks to any other "mass media duel". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

What should we make of appeals to human rights in the context of struggles against dispossession or armed repression? After the ‘death of man’ as transcendent ground of all right, critics have highlighted the disciplinary effects and absolutist tendencies of human rights discourse. However, attempts have been made to ‘rescue’ human rights – and wider forms of humanistic advocacy – as an immanent, self-grounding ethical practice. Drawing on analysis of struggles over natural resource extraction and indigenous rights in Latin America, this paper argues that such accounts mirror the assumptions of a predominant mode of international humanitarian activism. By reifying humanistic ideals, without sufficient attention to the effects of practices within which rights are invoked, both obscure entanglements between humanist interventions and logics of dispossession. This is particularly significant at the current juncture. Through these interventions rights have been absorbed into a neoliberal regime of truth in which the subjects of rights are interpellated as parties to private contract, such that rights themselves become tools of exception. Taking struggle as a starting point, by contrast, highlights not only the indeterminacy of rights but also the potential of human rights discourse to disrupt these logics. Through ethnographic engagement with ‘people’s hearings’ into ‘Multinational Corporations and Crimes against Humanity’ in Colombia, I revisit the questions of ‘the human’ and ‘rights’ and propose a more dialectical approach to the relation between normative principle and immanent critique. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This paper propose an additional plan of production in a Company, including employees in a handicap condition, which will count with different times to execute the different tasks and sometimes incompatible in specific activities. The Model of mixed integer linear programming seeks to maximize production as well as the respective cash flow. The tributary benefits of the Colombian government associated to the inclusion of handicap condition personnel, are considered for the model. The Model is validated with a case study. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Often, communication by ratio, television and press, and various internet sources, report inadequate practices during signature of contracts or during the building process. However, rules contained in the Anti-Corruption Statute, enforce transparency and promote punishing corruption due to bad government activity, although sometimes the punishment is not effective due to the benefits by collaboration with justice. This paper shows the results of research that exposes unethical activities reported in construction of highway, which undermine the principle contained in the deontology of each professions, and particularly occupational exercise and performance of civil engineer. For doing the historical reconstruction were used consulted press and magazines. This study focused on road projects where there has been significant, inappropriate behavior, and also gaps that have favored contractual manipulation. It is concluded from the study that the Procurement Information System is a useful tool to keep abreast of progress in public investment projects, but that is necessary and relevant updates it and, in that way, the community is kept informed of the investments being made in their zone, and also emphasizes the importance of good deontological practices in all professions, looking for the general goals over the particular interest. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines how the principles of corporate social responsibility are included in the Colombian legal system. This is a descriptive and cross-sectional research based on qualitative data, which examines the legal regulation of CSR in Colombia, from the analysis of the principles of Global Compact grouped into four areas: human rights, labor, environmental and fight against corruption. It is concluded that the different aspects of CSR are regulated to a greater or lesser extent in the Colombian legal system, which shows that this is not, at least not entirely voluntary and that the regulation in this area as well as voluntary initiatives are appropriate and necessary, not contradictory, but are complementary instead. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We explore the traits that characterize the codes of conduct with the aim to understand the parameters of responsibility and ethical performance that Colombian oil companies define for themselves and for their stakeholders. The paper is exploratory and descriptive and uses the method of multiple case study. The codes are grouped in three blocks according to their structure. We show the philosophical roots of codes. codes of global companies are extensive and legal. Local companies with international ambition have less extensive codes, but maintain their legal nature. Codes of small local enterprises are short and mission-focused by this tone. Virtually all codes have their roots in utilitarian ethics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to show the possibility of the agen-cy from an ethics course as part of executive training the force. Be part of the progress made in discussions on the concept of agency, particularly in American sociology. Next, we proceed to present the practices developed with students, in order to suggest possi-bilities for the agency from themselves. Finally, we discuss about the possibilitiesthat this proposal may be useful in the institutional development of the Na-tional Police of Colombia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We explore the traits that characterize the codes of conduct with the aim to understand the parameters of responsibility and ethical performance that Colombian oil companies define for themselves and for their stakeholders. The paper is exploratory and descriptive and uses the method of multiple case study. The codes are grouped in three blocks according to their structure. We show the philosophical roots of codes. Codes of global companies are extensive and legal. Local companies with international ambitios have less extensive codes, but maintain their legal nature. Codes of small local enterprises are short and mission-focused by this tone. Virtually all codes have their roots in utilitarian ethics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]