Money laundering is a risk to be taken with cryptocurrencies
Cryptocurrency offers a value exchange system based on an electronic currency in an efficient, reliable and easy-to-exchange manner, without the intervention of government agencies....
The end of a war and a date for human rights work
The situations generated in the midst of armed conflicts generally have a profound and serious impact on human rights. In 2005, the United Nations (UN)...
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Expansion and tech boom are the trends in legal services for 2019
The world is in constant transformation and that is an absolute reality. In such profound processes of change, technological development and the growth that it imposes are part of the...
Ethics and good governance were valuable themes during 2018
In 2018 we focus our efforts to offer, from this space, quality information for the professional development of the Venezuelan lawyer. Technological changes and the continuous growth of the Law as a...
To be #ConLosRefugiados is to bet on peace.
Having to leave the country and everything you know because you feel threatened is a limiting situation and causes strong imbalances to individuals and even entire family groups.....
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International Human Rights Day 2018: for equity, justice and human dignity.
"To deprive people of their human rights is to call into question their very humanity," said Nelson Mandela, South African fundamental rights activist. Every December 10...
Money laundering, a modern risk to the socioeconomic order
Money laundering is "disguising assets to be used without detection of the illegal activity that produced them", this is the term used by the Office for the Control of Assets...
Legal entities can also be sanctioned in criminal proceedings
When it is determined that a legal entity is linked to crimes that may be related to Organized Crime and Terrorist Financing, such corporation may be subject to the jurisdiction of the courts....
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In the eyes of international justice, illegal detentions are considered arbitrary.
In law, the use of terms can substantially modify a cause, its repercussions and responsibilities. Even the same term or situation may be experienced differently in different legislations,...
Pardon, a resource to pardon sentences, but not to exonerate guilt
A pardon is an exceptional measure of grace, in which a penalty is erased due to various circumstances, but without this action implying the discharge of moral responsibility....