Criterios orientadores para el acompañamiento y asesoría psicojurídica a víctimas de tortura o tratos crueles, inhumanos o degradantes en colombia.

Abstract

In Colombia, torture is conceptualized as the conduct intended to carry out physical or psychological punishment on a person in order to punish them, and in recent decades it has been a conduct used as a means of political persecution, obtaining information, as a method of submission. , mechanism of discrimination, instrument of repression or simply to sow terror in the population or specific communities; even knowing that it is a crime that is identified in the sanctioning legislation, present in the Colombian Penal Code in its article 178, in International Humanitarian Law under the four Geneva conventions in article 3 and in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Article 5 "No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment." In Colombia, the Ombudsman's Office (2012) raises the concern of the invisibility of this crime and the great difficulties in accessing justice, in many cases the impunity of this crime prevails, because they are behaviors that are not investigated and evaluated correctly and sanctioned by the administration of justice, even so, in Colombia there is the International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims, which is the international council for the rehabilitation of torture victims (ICRT, 2009), with a CAPS psychosocial assistance center -CO in the city of Bogotá, which provides service provision and treatment methodologies under an interdisciplinary team that serves torture victims and their families in order to help them overcome their trauma and rebuild their lives. Interdisciplinary work in the psycho-legal field must be carried out by psychologists and lawyers, who, through the expertise of their discipline, work together towards the reparation and psychological well-being of the victims, whose objective is the defense of human rights, seeking negotiation, mediation, conflict resolution among others that are in favor of the victims. The orientation criteria that will be established in this document seek to offer legal psychologists tools that allow them to guide and advise victims of torture in an ideal way, on the particularities and strategies that must be followed in the criminal process, it is explained to which entities they can go, assistance and attention is provided to a process that entails the empowerment of rights, pro-activity, meaningful memory and resilience.