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Publicación Are reparations impossible to pay? Colombia’s reparation policy for survivors of sexual violence and victims of the armed conflictDiana Esther Guzmán Rodríguez; Paula Valencia Cortés; Randy Villalba Arango; Paola Molano AyalaThe right to reparation for victims of human rights violations is one of the cornerstones of transitional justice and is a widely recognized principle in both the literature and human rights standards. Despite its importance, administrative reparation programs are often seen as costly and ineffective policies. Nevertheless, the literature on reparations has overlooked the question of the financial feasibility of these programs. In an effort to address this question, this text contributes to the analysis of the financing of administrative reparation programs, particularly regarding reparations for sexual violence, based on the Colombian experience. We examine how the financial feasibility of the reparations policy created in 2011 was determined, how the budget allocated to reparations has behaved between 2012 and 2022, and the role of reparations for acts of sexual violence within this framework. This study allows us to identify important methodological, conceptual, and political elements in order to establish what has worked well and what has been problematic in this process. Based on this, we discuss factors that should be taken into account in different contexts to ensure sustainable programs that fulfill the rights of victims of human rights violations, especially survivors of sexual violence.Publicación Addicted to Punishment: The Disporportionality of Drug Laws in Latin AmericaRodrigo Uprimny Yepes; Diana Esther Guzmán Rodríguez; Jorge Alberto Parra NoratoThis document analyzes the proportionality of drug related crimes in seven Latin American countries through the study of the evolution of their criminal legislations from 1950 until 2012. The study suggests the existence of a regional tendency to maximize the use of criminal law for combating this type of conducts. This is reflected in: i) the gradual increase in the number of drug-related conducts described as criminal, ii) the exponential growth of the penalties with which those conducts are punished and iii) the incomprehensible tendency of punishing with more severity the drug-related crimes rather than those more evidently severe such as homicide, rape and aggravated robbery. Those upward trends indicate that the Latin American States have become addicted to punishment because of their frequent and empirically groundless increasing of the punitive dose, regardless of its constantly decreasing benefits. Addicted to punishment is part of a series of studies carried out by the Research Consortium on Drugs and the Law (CEDD) that critically analyze the application of the proportionality principle in relation with drug crimes. The studies find that the punishments imposed and the punitive treatment of the offenders is disproportional, often generating more damages than benefits.