Jun
28
2019

Observatory of Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law in the Meta is born

This would be the seventh national scenario created by the Presidential Council for Human Rights and International Affairs, the Unit for Victims and the Ministry of Interior, in addition to those already existing in the departments of Nariño, Cauca, Chocó, Antioquia, Huila and Norte of Santander.

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The Presidential Council for Human Rights and International Affairs, together with the Victims Unit and the Ministry of the Interior, have made progress since 2016 in the consolidation of the National Network of Observatories on Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law (RODHI) in the framework of decree 1084 of 2015.

"In Villavicencio, the Meta Node of this network was formally presented, which becomes an inter-institutional body that promotes articulation for the exchange of information, methodologies and structural and circumstantial analyzes on human rights violations and breaches of International Humanitarian Law, among observatories institutional, social and academic institutions existing at the national and territorial levels, "he said.   Gelman   Andrés Cárdenas Herrera, official of the National Information Network of the Unit for Victims.

For his part, Juan Felipe Acosta, territorial director (e) for Eastern Meta and Llanos, stressed that this information that will compile from various sources the Meta Node, will be input for making decisions on prevention, protection and guarantees of non-repetition in the Llanos region.

This would be the seventh national scenario, in addition to those already existing in the departments of Nariño, Cauca, Chocó, Antioquia, Huila and Norte de Santander, made up mostly of territorial observatories of civil society, academia and government, with allies of government agencies. international cooperation, doing a collaborative work in which the Human Rights situation is monitored in each of these departments.

(End/EVA/CMC/LMY)