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Carolina Moreno

Lawyer, PhD. and associate professor at the Law School of the Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá), Colombia. Director of the Center for Migration Studies (CEM) and co-founder of the Legal Clinic for Migrants at the same university.

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The disconcerting lethargy of the migration agenda in Colombia

Coauthor Stephanie López The ostracism in which the immigration policy has been placed has the worst impact for migrants living in the country.

Yes, migrant women have abortions and their rights matter too

On February 21, 2022, the Constitutional Court of Colombia issued an extraordinary relevant ruling in the fight for the decriminalization of the voluntary interruption of pregnancy (VTP), not only for the local Colombian context, but also for the region.

The Darien (un)Plug: the “other migration”

In Colombia, both the massive Venezuelan migration and the lesser known "extracontinental" migration converge, either in transit or as a destination. But the position of the Colombian authorities with regard to both, as well as the measures adopted, are diametrically different.