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Ciro and us

Ciro Galindo, protagonist of the documentary ‘Ciro y yo’, came to remind me where I come from, so I take his story personally. Ultimately, we are children of the same Colombia.

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Will they remain missing?

Despite the nobility and importance of its function, almost nobody knows or speaks about the Unit for the Search of Missing Persons, while every day we discuss the Special Jurisdiction for Peace.

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Disappeared

Among the infamies of our internal conflict, one of the greatest, due to it being the most hidden, is the forced disappearance of thousands of people: the students and activists evaporated at the hands of state intelligence bodies under the Security Statute 35 years ago, the “false positives” of the army a few years ago, the social and rural leaders removed by the paramilitaries in the nineties, the soldiers kidnapped by the FARC that never reappeared. All united by uncertain stops and the suffering of families that continue to search for them.

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The False Beliefs about False Victims

The processes of land restitution are complex and what seems like a false complaint could actually be a typical case of displacement included in the Victims Law.

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Safeguarding the Restitution Process

Both claimants and bureaucrats are at risk. Thus policy makers cannot take the position that they ought to be more “austere” in instituting protection measures.

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Should They Put Up with It?

Should the neighbors of a police station, who suffer damage to their property or their person from guerrilla attacks directed against the police station, tough it out and assume the cost of these injuries on their own? Or, should the state compensate them so they can rebuild their lives?

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Coalition Report UN Resolution 1325 on Peace and Democracy in Colombia

Since 2011, Coalition 1325 has drafted a report on UN Security Council´s Resolution 1325 monitoring the implementation of the Resolution in Colombia. This year, given the peace dialogues between the Colombian Government and the FARC-EP, this report is especially important because Resolution 1325 calls upon signatory states to include women in peace processes and post conflict scenarios, and to guarantee the rights of the women victims of armed conflict.

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Injustices and Wars

Injustices cause wars but wars, in turn, also cause injustices. In Colombia, for example, injustice derives from the high inequality in agrarian land ownership, which was used by the guerrillas as a justification for their armed uprising.

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Artículo de Litigio

Citizen intervention in the tutela against the Inspector General for failure to protect an individual in great danger

The intervention relates to a motion for legal protection in which a victim of a serious violation of his human rights, in spite of being in an unusual and extreme security risk, received no protection from existing security programs. Dejusticia requests the Constitutional Court to take the necessary steps in order to crease the violation of the plaintiff’s fundamental rights and to consider that this case is one of many that exist today in the country, where victims and witnesses of the conflict did not receive effective, adequate, and specific protection, and, therefore, declare that there is an unconstitutional state of affairs. If this were the case, the Court should issue the necessary orders for the different institutions that are responsible of protection programs to appropriate them to the minimum of rationality imposed by the Court and to adapt them to the conditions of the Colombian context.

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