Publicado por La Silla Vacía el 18 de noviembre de 2020.
A synthesis, based on three recent oversight reports, of 10 ways that peace accord implementation is falling short of its gender focus goals.
November 18, 2020
Publicado por La Silla Vacía el 18 de noviembre de 2020.
A synthesis, based on three recent oversight reports, of 10 ways that peace accord implementation is falling short of its gender focus goals.
November 18, 2020
On August 26, the United Nations Security Council received a statement, signed by WOLA and a wide array of Colombian and international organizations, advising the council’s members to ensure the complete implementation of the final peace accord signed by the Colombian State and the FARC.
The statement underscores the Colombian government’s lack of political will to comprehensively fulfill the final peace accord. This weak approach has resulted in significant delays in achieving the accord’s goals of comprehensive rural reform, political participation, substitution of illicit crops, and dismantling of organized crime.
To enable the full implementation of the final peace accord, the organizations recommend:
You can read the original, Spanish statement here.
The English text is below:
The organizations and platforms signed would like to express our gratitude to the United Nations, Secretary-General António Guterres, countries belonging to the Security Council, and the Verification Mission on Colombia for supporting the Final Peace Accord for the Termination of the Conflict and the Construction of a Stable and Lasting Peace, signed November 2016, and for verifying its implementation, especially points 3.2 and 3.4 which concern the End of the Armed Conflict.
We recognize that the disarmament of the FARC’s former guerilla and the more than 13 thousand people currently undergoing the reintegration process are important steps forward. However, three and a half years have passed since the start of the final accord’s implementation, and four months since the official declaration of the social emergency caused by the pandemic. We have observed with profound concern the national government’s lack of political will to implement the peace accord. We can support this claim with the testimonies of communities and national and international verification reports. We have confirmed that most ex-combatants do not have land to work on and significant delays in the relative points of Comprehensive Rural Reform (part 1), political participation (part 2), the dismantling of organized crime (part 3), the substitution of illicit crops (part 4) and the institutional conditions that guarantee the implementation and monitoring of the accord (part 6).
Militarized presence in the territories fails to secure the life and liberties of citizens and peace. In Colombia, since the signing of the final peace accord and up until July 15, 2020, 971 social leaders and 215 individuals undergoing the reintegration process have been assassinated in these militarized zones. In other zones with territorial perimeter controls, criminality and the power of various armed groups has increased.
We advocate for respecting and fully implementing the final peace accord signed by the Colombian State and the FARC; the adoption of effective measures that guarantee reintegration; the due functioning of the agreed instances in the agreement like the CSIVI, which monitor implementation and the security guarantees of individuals undergoing reintegration; and the National Security Guarantees Commission, for the full completion of the mandate concerning the dismantlement of groups and conduct that threaten the country’s social leaders.
With the purpose of completely fulfilling the final peace accord and recognizing the important monitoring task that the Verification Mission–created by the UN Security Council–has accomplished for Colombia, we solicit the renovation of the mandate and the explicit inclusion of:
1) Verifying the fulfillment of sanctions by the Peace Tribunal of the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) for all parties, which is included in part 5.1.2, numeral 53 d) of the final accord. The sites where sanctions will be implemented, in addition to the security and vigilance plan that guarantees the lives and physical integrity of the sanctioned and the victims of these territories, needs to be verified.
2) Monitoring the implementation of the differentiated gender dimension of the final peace accord, which is a recognized achievement, but also one that requires additional human and financial resources. It needs continuous precision and verification processes in its implementation with regard to commitments to women and ethnic peoples.
3) Supporting and possibly verifying Resolution 2532 of July 1, 2020 of the UN Security Council, and to invite the Colombian government and all who still find themselves armed to welcome the cease fire as an imperative, ethical need that will secure the signed peace process and provide humanitarian relief to rural communities violently targeted by multiple groups. The final peace accord established its centrality in the victims. Therefore, creating an enabling environment for peace is fundamental to providing a suitable response to the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic and advancing in the achievement of a complete peace.
Colombia has a social movement shaped by people that have contributed to the construction of peace. We have immense gratitude for the international community, because we have unitedly advocated for negotiated ends to armed conflict, the adoption of mechanisms for judicial placement of various armed groups, and an impetus for humanitarian initiatives as forms of resolving our conflicts and reconstructing a democratic society in a socially and environmentally conscious state of law.
September 4, 2020
We’re pleased to share video of last Tuesday’s two-panel discussion of the state of Colombia’s peace accord implementation. The first panel presents the principal findings of the fourth comprehensive report on the peace accord by Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame. The second includes insights from experts on women’s rights, gender, and LGBT+ provisions.
This video does not include the translators’ track: speakers choose the language in which they prefer to speak. The first panel is in English, the second is in Spanish.
July 27, 2020
Publicado por Rodeemos el Diálogo el 22 de julio de 2020.
A discussion with a leader of a community from the Montes de María that suffered a major paramilitary massacre in 2000.
July 22, 2020
Published by the Washington Office on Latin America on July 21, 2020.
Two panels, hosted by WOLA: a presentation of the latest Kroc Institute report on accord implementation, and a discussion with women, Afro-Descendant, indigenous, and LGBT+ leaders.
July 21, 2020
Publicado por Rodeemos el Diálogo el 18 de julio de 2020.
A discussion of the challenges facing women victims’ activism with Claudia Quintero, director of the Corporación Anne Frank.
July 18, 2020
Publicado por la Comisión de la Verdad el 13 de julio de 2020.
A women’s singing group raises awareness of forced disappearance, of which there are more than 1,400 victims in Tumaco.
July 13, 2020
Publicado por la Coordinación Colombia-Europa-Estados Unidos el 13 de julio de 2020.
The latest pandemic human rights update from the non-governmental platform looks at recent allegations of sexual abuse by military personnel around the country.
July 13, 2020
Publicado por la Comisión de la Verdad el 7 de julio de 2020.
Presentation of a report about the experience of women and young people in the the National Association of Campesinos (ANUC).
July 7, 2020
Publicado por El Espectador Colombia 2020 el 4 de julio de 2020.
A Bogotá meeting between mothers of soldiers killed in combat and former women members of the FARC leads to a reconciliation process.
July 4, 2020
Publicado por El Espectador Colombia 2020 el 3 de julio de 2020.
Mothers of soldiers killed in combat and ex-FARC leaders discuss a reconciliation process.
July 3, 2020
Publicado por la Comisión de la Verdad el 26 de junio de 2020.
Victims of sexual violence in the conflict reflect on their processes a year after their first encounter with the Truth Commission.
June 26, 2020
Publicado por la Comisión Colombiana de Juristas el 19 de junio de 2020.
An exchange between experts and female social leaders from rural areas about the challenges rural women face.
June 19, 2020
Published by One Earth Future on June 11, 2020.
In Valle del Cauca, Sandra and Dora, members of CORTUCAN, tell how they are making ecotourism a sustainable livelihood for their families.
June 11, 2020
Published by the Notre Dame Journal of International and Comparative Law on June 2, 2020.
Finds that the process of selecting justices for the Special Jurisdiction for Peace was a model of inclusiveness.
June 2, 2020
Publicado por la Comisión de la Verdad el 29 de mayo de 2020.
A presentation and discussion of the causes and impacts of sexual violence during the conflict in the Caribbean region.
May 29, 2020
Publicado por la Comisión de la Verdad el 28 de mayo de 2020.
Launch of a report about the experience of Afro-Descendant women during the armed conflict.
May 28, 2020
Published by One Earth Future on May 28, 2020.
Saura and Johana tell how they came back to their lands in Catatumbo and how, after subscribing to the National Comprehensive Program for the Substitution of Illicit Crops (PNIS), they began to grow food where there were once coca crops.
May 28, 2020
Publicado por la Comisión de la Verdad el 27 de mayo de 2020.
A dialogue about the causes and impacts of sexual violence in Arauca.
May 27, 2020
Publicado por la Comisión de la Verdad el 25 de mayo de 2020.
A discussion of challenges facing non-repetition guarantees for victims of violence against women in Norte de Santander.
May 25, 2020
Published by One Earth Future on May 21, 2020.
Socorro attends the Rural Alternative School (ERA) of San José del Guaviare.
May 21, 2020
Published by One Earth Future on May 8, 2020.
In Anorí, Antioquia, Mirian tells how PASO Colombia’s Contingency Plan To Support Ex-coca Grower Families enabled her to receive the first formal payment of her life.
May 8, 2020
Published by One Earth Future on April 30, 2020.
Nancy tells how she has implemented her leadership and gender-related insights in the municipal nursery of Anorí, Antioquia.
April 30, 2020
Publicado por la Corporación Sisma Mujer el 20 de abril de 2020.
A meeting of a collective of women, victims of the conflict in Tolima and Valle del Cauca, to rebuild memory and build solidarity.
April 20, 2020