For the first time, the Board’s Coordinator will be a woman: Eucaris Salas Salas, a business administrator from El Piñon (Magdalena).

In a democratic event attended by nearly 400 delegates from all the country's departments, which was supervised by the Ombudsman's Office and supported by the Unit for the Victims, the new National Effective Victims Participation Board was elected for 2021-2023.

The new Board was left with 58 people, and its new coordinator is Eucaris Salas Salas from Magdalena Department, who also is part of the LGBTI approach. She is the first woman to enforce this position, a business administrator who was also a Councilor for El Piñon. "To articulate processes with the victims in the territory" is her main challenge.

The new Board was structured like this:

Executive committee

The Executive Committee was made up of Eucaris Salas Salas (Magdalena), Jose Mendoza (Afro), Adriana Perez (Antioquia), Blanca Yoli Real (Vichada), Ludirlena Perez (Caldas), Laura Borrero (Atlantico) and Telemina Barros (La Guajira).

Ethics Committee: Fabio Machacado, Nhora Eliza Velez and Fleyder Pimiento.

By victimizing event

Forced disappearance: Liliana Gutierrez (Arauca) and Adriana Perez (Antioquia).

Displacement: Jose David Negrete (Cordoba), Orlando Burgos (Santander), Jose Alirio Barrera (Casanare), Zaida Vasquez (Bolivar), Idali Londoño (Risaralda), Rosa Libia Cuellar (Meta), Ana Guetio Caso (Cauca), Blasney Mosquera (Choco), Claudia Rosa Cueto (Sucre) and Jose Antonio Coral (Nariño).

Sexual violence: Yolanda Perea (Antioquia) and Ludirlena Perez (Caldas).

Life and freedom: Maria Moreno Africano (Atlantico) and Nhora Elisa Velez (Quindio).

Physical integrity: Humberto Ariza (San Andres y Providencia) and Ivonne Fierro (Atlantico).

Antipersonnel mines: Fleyder Pimiento Ortiz and Gladyz Zarate Fierro.

By focus

Woman: Blanca Yoli Real (Vichada) and Telemina Barros (La Guajira).

LGBTI: Eucaris Salas (Magdalena) and Felipe Valencia.

Young people: Laura Borrero (Atlantico) and Maria Teresa Salas (Magdalena).

Disability: Nidya Mercedes Bermeo (Huila) and Diana Patricia Ramirez (Cundinamarca).

Older person: Fabio Machacado (Magdalena) and Maria Lucia Giraldo (Risaralda).

Victims abroad: John Jairo Romero (Spain) and Milena Garcia (Canada).

Ethnic:

For the rrom people: David Gomez and Eduardo Gomez.

For the Afro people: Jose Mendoza (Cesar) and Martin Carabali (Norte de Santander).

Collective reparation: Fernando Varon (national Collective Subject) and Lubis Cardenas (departmental Collective Subject).

Victims’ organizations: Tu verdad cuenta (Guais Yuni Aracely), Red Nacional de Mujeres Desplazadas y Víctimas del Conflicto Armado (Marlene Florez Lizarazo), Fundacion por la Dignidad de los Heroes de Colombia (Giomar Patricia Riveros), Alianza Iniciativa de Mujeres Colombianas por la Paz (Angela Ceron Lasprilla), Fundacion Rostros Diversos LGBTI (Luis Edwin Patiño Riveros), Asodescat (Fabian Andres Caceres), Ordevive (Mayerlis Sanjuan) y Corporación Paz, Amor y Vida (Sandra Rocio Lozano).

Delegates by department

Juan Carlos Martinez: Amazonas

María Fernanda Arboleda: Bogota.

Manuel Ivàn Monroy: Boyaca.

Marlon Yesid Calderon: Caqueta.

Oscar Moreno: Cesar.

Elvira Valencia: Guainia.

Jhon Fredy Martinez: Guaviare.

Milton Antonio Hostia: North of Santander.

Yessica Arenas: Putumayo.

German Dario Bernal: Tolima.

Víctor Gomez: Vaupes.

This Board will be installed this Wednesday 15^th in Bogota, during an event with Government’s spokespersons, along with officials from the Ombudsman and the Attorney General's Office, among others.

(End/CMC/COG/RAM)