The Constitutional Court sent the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) all the information it has on acts of forced displacement during the armed conflict, including problems related to the care that different authorities give to the displaced.
The delivery of this information was part of a request from the JEP in the framework of the investigations into case 09 on “crimes committed against ethnic Peoples and Territories” located in the departments of Amazonas, Putumayo, Caquetá, Vaupés, Guainía, Guaviare, Meta, Casanare, Vichada, Arauca, Norte de Santander and Boyacá.
In 2004, the Constitutional Court declared the massive violation of the rights of victims of displacement through a tutela ruling against the Government for the lack of attention to victims.
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In the midst of following up on this ruling to overcome the crisis, the Court has issued close to 80 orders, including one that refers to the rights of displaced women, others on the protection of children and adolescents who are victims of displacement and another on indigenous peoples displaced by the armed conflict.
The Court has stated that “Colombian children and adolescents in a situation of forced displacement they are the weakest and most defenseless victims of the entire displaced population due to the armed conflict in the country.
In another of the reports on the Awá community, the Court has warned that its attention “has been very deficient and precarious, given the dimension of the humanitarian crisis it faces, precisely because the response given to their requests has been scarce and has not had, in practice, repercussions in terms of the effective enjoyment of their rights, which would allow them, as a displaced and confined ethnic community with reinforced constitutional protection, to effectively enjoy their rights. ”.
Case 09 on displacement in the JEP is part of the macro-cases that this peace jurisdiction opened to clarify the events that occurred during the conflict.
