Progressive organisations have organised a sit-in in the Plazoleta de San Francisco, in Bogota, this Wednesday, at 5 pm, to denounce the breaches by the Colombian government and defend the peace process.
In a televised address on 10 March, Colombian President Iván Duque, announced his decision to object to six of the 159 articles that make up the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) - a structural instrument of utmost importance for the implementation of the Peace Agreement between the Colombian State and the FARC-EP (today People’s Alternative Revolutionary Force).
This decision is making the JEP functioning unviable and is distancing Colombian society, which has suffered because of the war, from advancing in the peace process with social justice.
The Peace Agreement recognises and admits that war has hit women in different ways, and therefore measures that meet our needs were established in the framework of the Final Agreement.
In the current post-agreement context, the JEP brings important challenges to the guarantee of the rights of ex-guerrilla women and requires a scenario to develop a high-impact litigation that guarantees the right to defense and due process to avoid stereotypes that limit and alienate women from access to justice, managing to bring judicial truth closer to the experiences and needs of women.
Since President Duque announced his objection to the articles of the JEP there have been dozens of initiatives to protest this decision which is really putting the whole Peace Agreement and process in danger.
