Human rights in Colombia: a review of the reports of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (2003-2015)

Abstract

The purpose of this work is to review the reports made by the United Nations High commissioner for Human Right on human rights about Colombia, in search of for evidence that demonstrates the nullifying interrelations between social actors of the armed conflict against the dignity of the victims. Violence and any act of terrorism emerging from the armed conflict increase vulnerability, the silencing of memory, impunity and to a large extent, promotes an evasive logic of responsibilities and reparations that are necessary to clarify the victimizing facts and give voice to those affected . The armed conflict brings victims together in a dynamic of terror that impacts all their areas of development and limits their sense of security, trust and credibility in each other and in social institutions.