Afrontar el problema del maltrato infantil requiere de la intervencion de grupos interdisciplinarios, interinstitucionales e intersectoriales, por lo que es necesario conocer el problema en el mayor numero de sus componentes y poder asi explicar sus origenes y plantear las posibles soluciones. De alli, la necesidad de incluir los aspectos clinico terapeuticos, socio-juridicos, de salud publica y de vigilancia epidemiologica, de educacion y participacion ciudadana para entender y poder manejar la problematica del maltrato infantil como problema social, educativo, juridico y de salud publica. Mirando esta complejidad se hace necesario establecer el estado actual de la situacion del maltrato en Colombia y las posibilidades de intervencion como problema de caracter interdisciplinario. Para ello se propone trabajar sobre los siguientes objetivos: 1) Describir y analizarla situacion del maltrato infantil en Colombia. 2) Describir las estrategias existentes en Colombia y en el mundo, enfatizando su desempeno, para la resolucion del problema de la violencia. 3) Determinar el estado del conocimiento de las diferentes estrategias existentes en los grupos de trabajo colombianos. 4) Proponer investigacion metodologica y de campo para intervenir el problema de la violencia en Colombia, enfatizando el maltrato infantil. 5) Divulgar las diferentes instancias para asesorar y/o financiar investigaciones en el campo del maltrato infantil.

Abortion and Democracy offers critical analyses of abortion politics in Latin America’s Southern Cone, with lessons and insights of wider significance. Drawing on the region’s recent history of military dictatorship and democratic transition, this edited volume explores how abortion rights demands fit with current democratic agendas. With a focus on Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay, the book’s contributors delve into the complex reality of abortion through the examination of the discourses, strategies, successes, and challenges of abortion rights movements. Assembling a multiplicity of voices and experiences, the contributions illuminate key dimensions of abortion rights struggles: health aspects, litigation efforts, legislative debates, party politics, digital strategies, grassroots mobilization, coalition-building, affective and artistic components, and movement-countermovement dynamics. The book takes an approach that is sensitive to social inequalities and to the transnational aspects of abortion rights struggles in each country. It bridges different scales of analysis, from abortion experiences at the micro level of the clinic or the home to the macro sociopolitical and cultural forces that shape individual lives. This is an important intervention suitable for students and scholars of abortion politics, democracy in Latin America, gender and sexuality, and women’s rights.

Philosophical realism has taken a number of different forms, each applied to different topics and set against different forms of idealism and subjectivism. Maurizio Ferraris's Manifesto of New Realism takes aim at postmodernism and hermeneutics, arguing against their emphasis on reality as constructed and interpreted. While acknowledging the value of these criticisms of traditional, dogmatic realism, Ferraris insists that the insights of postmodernism have reached a dead end. Calling for the discipline to turn its focus back to truth and the external world, Ferraris's manifesto—which sparked lively debate in Italy and beyond—offers a wiser realism with social and political relevance.