Daño Psicosocial del Desplazamiento Sobre la Población Afrocolombiana Asentada en Bogotá Consecuente a la Normatividad en Derechos Humanos

Abstract

Afro-descendant communities have suffered for decades the effects of the Colombian armed conflict, particularly displacement, generating a continuous violation of their human rights. The Colombian State, being subscribed to international treaties on this matter, especially the American Convention on Human Rights, is responsible for this population. Fact established according to national and international regulations and must then act through public policies and programs that allow comprehensive reparation for the victims. The following research aimed to investigate the psychosocial impact of the victims of displacement residing in Bogotá, it is possible to observe a greater presence of women with a moderate degree of education than men, which has diminished gender inequality, despite having a marked advantage of unequal knowledge, skills and abilities on the part of men and women, greater labor participation among women who are displaced reflecting rural to urban migration, the loss of social and cultural control of their territories by the displaced population, since it forces families to modify their family composition, forgetting their customs in order to adapt to a different cultural environment, which generates substantial changes in their quality of life. In the same way, it is possible to show that said population presents various psychosocial problems, which generates various obstacles such as high levels of emotional affectation, breakdown of family ties with frequent episodes of intrafamily violence, gender violence, sexual violence, violence and child abuse and community violence.

Keywords: Human Rights, Afro-descendants, State Responsibility, Obligations imposed, Compliance, psychosocial harm, Bogotá.