Defensores de derechos humanos: Los ecos de un pasado que la violencia no ha podido silenciar

Abstract

Taking into account the constitutional transition made by the Colombian legal system in 1991, through which it advocated the creation of a social State governed by the rule of law, the primacy of which lies in the realization of constitutional rights, fundamental and of course human, whose existence converges in human dignity as its ultimate goal, however, given the socio-political conditions that identify the country’s insecurity, a series of transgressions were presented to them as a consequence of the constant disputes for power and the difference of ideologies that demarcated Colombian society since the sixties, in such a way that the nation, in an attempt to realize the minimum conditions of life, would be prepared to create groups to combat ignorance of the aforementioned precepts, inspired by the work of foreign groups and of course by international conventions, such as the Pact of San José and Law 16 of 1972, whose premise would give rise to the struggle for human rights and would set the perfect precedent for understanding that Colombia, like any other Latin American country, is constantly struggling with the danger to which these groups are exposed, allowing the analysis of existing legislation and its level of effectiveness in countering the proliferation of kidnapping cases, murder, torture against him.