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Guillermo Roque Fernández De Soto Valderrama

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2020-07-17
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2021-04-08
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  1. “Despite the important advances and significant achievements registered in recent years, Colombia continues to face challenges due to the continued use of improvised anti-personnel mines by organized armed groups. We are grateful for the technical and financial cooperation of the international community to strengthen comprehensive mine action. We also call for intensified efforts in order to advance that goal. In conclusion, I wish to reiterate Colombia’s unswerving commitment to achieve the goal of a mine-free country by 2025. In that regard, we reaffirm our readiness to share with the international community the best practices and lessons learned over the years.”

    2021-04-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/346 (2021) · source

  2. “Among the good practices being carried out in Colombia I wish to highlight the creation of the Comprehensive Care Pathway, which ensures that victims receive assistance, attention and reparations, and, likewise, the establishment of the National Network of Survivors of Anti-personnel Mines, as a means of building trust between the State and the victims. I would also highlight the successful humanitarian demining pilot project implemented in Colombia in 2015 together with the Geneva-based International Centre for Humanitarian Demining. The efforts carried out jointly with United Nations agencies have helped to promote the reintegration of ex-combatants under the guidelines established by the National Government.”

    2021-04-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/346 (2021) · source

  3. “As of February, 20,939 mine-risk education activities had been carried out — 35.03 per cent in emergency situations, 34.62 per cent in humanitarian demining operations, 20.45 per cent in rapid response and 9.9 per cent in education — benefiting 570,805 people. The ultimate goal of mine-risk education and humanitarian demining operations is to ensure that no more Colombians are the victims of those devices and, in that way, to restore their right to use their land in full freedom. Therefore, in 2020 the Government of Colombia allocated significant resources to the development of direct activities with six survivors’ associations, thereby maintaining its commitment to the victims.”

    2021-04-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/346 (2021) · source

  4. “In 2020, despite the challenges posed by the coronavirus disease pandemic, Colombia made progress in the area of demining. It is expected that before the end of April 2021, the national Government will declare 18 additional municipalities free of anti-personnel mines. That will be in addition to the 154 municipalities already cleared since 2018, and thus Colombia is approaching the goal set out in the national development plan of 180 municipalities cleared by 2022.In terms of mine-risk education, efforts have been made using a differentiated approach for various population groups, including indigenous and Afro-descendant communities.”

    2021-04-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/346 (2021) · source

  5. “The first humanitarian demining operations began in the country in 2004. In the past 12 years, as a result of coordinated and strengthened State action, we have gone from clearing 119,161 square metres in 2009 to 1,365,547 square metres in 2020 — that is, 10 times more land. In addition, 108 explosive devices were destroyed in 2009, a figure that has now risen to more than 575. In order to continue making positive progress, the national Government established the Comprehensive Action against Anti-personnel Mines programme, which is aimed at mitigating the social, economic and environmental impact of anti- personnel mines and unexploded ordnance through the design and implementation of projects focused on protecting and ensuring healthy coexistence in the territories.”

    2021-04-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/346 (2021) · source

  6. “Its mandate is to ensure an effective response based on three pillars: humanitarian demining, comprehensive assistance to victims and mine-risk education. Those pillars are mechanisms that enhance peacebuilding and the culture of legality as State policies, especially in those territories most affected. That is possible thanks to an adequate coordination of policies with the territories, including a synergetic relationship with other key public policies aimed at the stabilization of territories. We are implementing the strategic plan entitled “Colombia free of anti- personnel mines 2020-2025” and the Operational Plan on Humanitarian Demining 2020-2025, which serve as the basis for the elaboration and implementation of actions that will make it possible to declare the country free of mines by 2025.”

    2021-04-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/346 (2021) · source

  7. “Such illegal action, which is closely linked to illegal economies, has affected the civilian population and the armed forces, in contravention of the applicable national and international regulations. Colombia has worked for years to confront that scourge and eradicate it definitively, honouring its commitment to the international obligations set out in the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on Their Destruction and in Additional Protocol II to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons. In our country, the Office of the High Commissioner for Peace is the National Technical Authority for Comprehensive Action against Anti-personnel Mines.”

    2021-04-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/346 (2021) · source

  8. “Colombia congratulates Viet Nam on having convened this open debate. We are convinced that this debate will lead to a broader and more complete understanding of the importance of enhancing cooperation and multilateral efforts aimed at identifying the new threats and challenges posed by anti-personnel mines, unexploded ordnance and improvised explosive devices. Strengthening action in this area in a comprehensive manner is a key objective given the humanitarian dimensions of the issue. Our country has been affected by this type of weapon, with non-State armed actors, organized criminal groups and residual organized armed groups being responsible for their indiscriminate use.”

    2021-04-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/346 (2021) · source

  9. “The Government has publicly and insistently requested that progress be made in criminal investigations both in the course of ordinary justice and with respect to disciplinary investigations in the Office of the Attorney General against the perpetrators of these crimes. Furthermore, the Ministry of Defence and the military forces have shown no tolerance for such acts. The Colombian State calls for strengthening the fight against the crime of sexual violence in all its forms and dimensions, which necessarily requires mechanisms for comprehensive reparation for the victims, as well as effective sanctions and condemnations imposed by the international community against the illegal armed groups, which are the main perpetrators of these practices.”

    2020-07-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/727 (2020) · source

  10. “It is important to highlight that, under the leadership of President Iván Duque Márquez, the State’s public policy line for the prevention of the recruitment or use of children and adolescents and for the prevention of sexual violence against them by organized armed groups and organized criminal groups was updated and formulated. With respect to criminal conduct involving uniformed members of the public forces, it must be made clear that under no circumstances do such acts correspond to any State policy. On the contrary, President Duque Márquez has emphatically stated that the State will not tolerate any type of abuse of minors.”

    2020-07-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/727 (2020) · source

  11. “However, despite ongoing efforts and the progress made in this area, Colombia continues to face great challenges owing to the persistence of criminal actions by residual groups of the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia, the Ejército de Liberación Nacional and other armed actors that continue to commit violations, thereby undermining the rights of women and children in various parts of the country. These armed groups and criminals are seeking intimidate and control the community through sexual violence. The State, under the leadership of the Presidential Counsellor’s Office for Human Rights and through the Intersectoral Commission for the Prevention of the Recruitment and Use of and Sexual Violence against Children and Adolescents, monitors and coordinates actions to counter these types of crime in the territories.”

    2020-07-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/727 (2020) · source

  12. “For its part, the Special Jurisdiction for Peace, a mechanism that administers justice to strengthen the transition towards peace, is equipped with a standing body, the Gender Commission, tasked with promoting the effective implementation of a gender-informed approach in the justice component of the Comprehensive System of Truth, Justice, Reparation and Non-Repetition. The efforts of the Government have not been decimated during the coronavirus disease pandemic. The Gender Technical Working Group of the National Reincorporation Council has been working since the onset of the pandemic to develop methods to address cases of sexual violence that occur during these conditions that enable appropriate action and prevention.”

    2020-07-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/727 (2020) · source

  13. “Likewise, the Office of the Attorney-General gives serious priority to investigations involving gender-based violence, with a view to ensuring that perpetrators are duly prosecuted and victims protected. Through the Transitional Justice Steering Group and Victims’ Registry, the Attorney-General places emphasis on problems affecting the rights of children and adolescents, gender-based violence and crimes committed against protected categories, with a view to providing appropriate support to victims.”

    2020-07-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/727 (2020) · source

  14. “Moreover, the Constitutional Court in 2008 recognized the commission of acts of sexual aggression in conflict as violations of international norms, such as the Geneva Conventions and article 7 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. In addition, the Victims’ Comprehensive Support and Reparation Unit — the State entity tasked with attending to and meeting the needs of victims of the armed conflict in Colombia — recently published a document containing guidelines for psychosocial support to victims of sexual violence in armed conflict. This was the result of joint work by the International Organization for Migration and the United States Agency for International Development, organizations that share Colombia’s interest in addressing this phenomenon in the most comprehensive and precautionary way.”

    2020-07-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/727 (2020) · source

  15. “The Government of Colombia categorically rejects sexual violence in all settings, including armed conflict. Based on our belief that this problem needs to be addressed with a gender-informed approach, Colombia has adopted measures to safeguard the rights of women, girls and boys in conflict settings. To that end, the State of Colombia has enacted national laws applied through the development and implementation of public policies, plans, programmes and projects to support victims and prevent crimes of sexual violence. Colombia’s normative framework includes 15 provisions that comprehensively ensure the protection of victims, access to justice, reparations and psychosocial support and uphold their reproductive and sexual rights.”

    2020-07-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/727 (2020) · source