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Embracing Truth: Gender-based violence

Sexual violence has been used strategically in Colombia’s armed conflict to breakdown community ties, to punish, humiliate and subordinate, and to silence those who denounce atrocities. But the magnitude of conflict-related sexual violence against women and LGBTI people in Colombia is yet to be fully understood. It is a crime that remains massively underreported, silenced and denied.

Guarantees for Transition Towards Peace

With the signing of the Final Peace agreement with the FARC-EP in 2016, victims became the central focus of it.