Vulneración de los derechos a la vida y a la seguridad personal de los líderes sociales en contextos de violencia en Colombia

Abstract

Since the mid-twentieth century Colombia has been subject to an internal armed conflict with the participation of a multitude of actors, namely: the State itself through its Military and Police Forces, subversive groups, paramilitary groups, drug trafficking cartels and criminal gangs - bacrim, generating institutional and social chaos, as well as a systematic violation of human rights in identified cases of the civilian population, which have been previously denounced; However, it has not been largely possible to prevent, investigate and punish these behaviors, a sector of civil society called social leaders have been given the task of publicly denouncing them as being creditors of threats and attacks against not only their lives and your personal integrity, but also that of your relatives. In this regard, and prior presentation of guardianship actions, the Constitutional Court has carried out a developed jurisprudential on the special protection that should be provided to social leaders and some members of their family for the development of their humanitarian activities. A jurisprudential line is thus constructed in the period 1998 to 2018.