Victims of human trafficking: for a state protection without conditions
Keywords:
Human Trafficking, victim, mediate assistance, the principle of equality, the principle of proportionality, effectivenessAbstract
The present article makes a legal analysis regarding the rules that regulate the mediate assistance to which the victims of human trafficking are entitled and the implications of the fact of conditioning such assistance to the complaint against traffickers, before the C-470 judgment of 2016 issued by the Constitutional Court. Likewise, were identified the possible tensions between the legal obligation to denounce the traffickers, who had the victims of this crime, against the constitutional principles of proportionality and equality.
In this vein, this research is developed under the methodology of Legal Clinic which focuses on the IAP (Participatory Action Research, in English) and the strategic litigation or litigation of high impact.
This work shows the contradiction that existed between the single paragraph of Article 7 of Law 985 of 2005 with the Political Constitution and the Colombian Criminal Procedure Code, resulting in a violation of the fundamental rights of victims of Human Trafficking, which led to the Constitutional Court to declare the paragraph mentioned in sentence C-470 of 2016 unenforceable, promoting the cessation of such violation.
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Jurisprudencia
Corte Constitucional
CCons, C-047/2001, E. Montealegre.
CCons, C-619/2001, J. G. Hernández.
CCons, T-881/2002, E. Montealegre.
CCons, C-250/2012, H. Sierra.
CCons, C-365/2012, J. I. Pretelt.
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Normas y leyes
L. 906/2004.
L. 985/2005.
D. 1069/2014.
D. 484/2015.
D. 1066/2015.
D. 1036/2016.
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