Throughout the meeting, which included the\nparticipation of JEP magistrate Heydi Patricia Baldosea Perea, also a member of\nboth the gender and ethnic commissions of the same institution, the\nparticipants, through a collective dialogue, delved into the violations and\ndirect effects that Afro-LGBTI groups continue to face in the territories.<\/p>\n\n
Joana Caicedo from the organization Somos\nIdentidad in the city of Cali, pointed out that LGBTI people, especially from\nthe most impoverished communities in the city, which are mostly composed of Afro-Colombians,\nhave faced and continue to face situations of violence by armed actors in the\nterritory. Armed groups during conflicts use strategies to correct of modify\nexpressions that they consider \u201cabnormal\u201d, for example, the most common forms\nof violence against LGBTI people are forced recruitment and sexual violence.<\/p>\n\n
\u00abLGBTI people are usually forced to hide and\ntry to act normal so as not to be harassed; now, living in different contexts\nas a black person is difficult, so being LGBTI in contexts of violence and\narmed conflict further exacerbates the situation,\u201d indicates Caicedo from Somos\nIdentidad.<\/p>\n\n
Vivian Cuello from Caribe Afirmativo emphasized that\nstructural racism still persists in all of society, which is why the armed\nconflict disproportionately affected Afro-descendant groups. \u201cIt is no\ncoincidence that the armed conflict mostly affected a large part of the\nracialized territories. This is due to an imminent absence of the State in\nthese territories, which allows armed groups to inhabit and take control of the\nterritories,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n\n
According to Angelo Mu\u00f1oz of the Afro-Colombian\nFoundation Arco Ir\u00eds in Tumaco, the \u00abobjectification\u00bb and\n\u00absocial normalization\u00bb of violence against LGBTI people is another one\nof the main effects diverse groups suffered in the territories where there is\nand has been armed conflict. \u00a0He also\nemphasized the state of violation that represents for the LGBTI groups in\nTumaco, not having judicial or social support when it comes to violence against\nvarious people.<\/p>\n\n
\u00abIn a territory where there is armed conflict, the black and LGBTI are a vulnerable body in an indifferent territory,\u00bb <\/em>added Mu\u00f1oz.<\/p>\n\n Judge Baldosea referred to the 7 cases that have\nso far been opened in the Special Jurisdiction for Peace, thanking and\nencouraging civil society organizations to present reports that integrate data\nthat may be related to already open cases in order to approach such\ninvestigations from an intersectional approach.<\/p>\n\n Additionally, the Magistrate carefully explained the processes and methods used by the Special Jurisdiction for Peace and the way in which these are being reviewed.<\/p>\n\n \u00abWe do not have a clear idea or exact data on\nhow many cases will be opened; to date civil society organizations have\nsubmitted an average of 284 reports and the call is open until March 2021. For\nour part, as body that has a clear mission of clarifying the truth, we will\ncontinue working to guarantee a comprehensive process for victims,\u00bb said\nBaldosea.<\/p>\n\n Likewise, representatives of Afro-LGBTI civil\nsociety recommended decentralizing the processes that are being carried out to\ndate in the JEP, to approach communities in the territories through less\ninstitutional forms, and thus generate trust and bring the necessary\ninformation in the clearest and most concise way.<\/p>\n\n Through this project, Race and Equality, with the\nsupport of the Canadian government, seeks to join the initiatives undertaken by\norganizations such as Caribe Afirmativo who have already presented documented\ncases before the JEP of Afro LGBTI victims of the armed conflict in the region of\nUrab\u00e1 (northwestern Colombia) and the municipality of Tumaco.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Leaders of Afro-LGBTI organizations from the municipalities of Cauca, Valle del Cauca, Nari\u00f1o and the Colombian Caribbean explained and denounced the effects and violence Afro-descendants with diverse sexual orientations and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":10187,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","categories":[1122,1172],"resources_country":[1191],"resources_language":[],"resources_audience":[],"resources_format":[],"resources_topic":[1104],"resources_year":[],"class_list":["post-12854","resources","type-resources","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombia","category-lgbti","resources_country-colombia-es","resources_topic-lgbti-es"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raceandequality.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/resources\/12854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/raceandequality.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/resources"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/raceandequality.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/resources"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raceandequality.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raceandequality.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raceandequality.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raceandequality.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12854"},{"taxonomy":"resources_country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raceandequality.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/resources_country?post=12854"},{"taxonomy":"resources_language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raceandequality.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/resources_language?post=12854"},{"taxonomy":"resources_audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raceandequality.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/resources_audience?post=12854"},{"taxonomy":"resources_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raceandequality.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/resources_format?post=12854"},{"taxonomy":"resources_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raceandequality.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/resources_topic?post=12854"},{"taxonomy":"resources_year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raceandequality.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/resources_year?post=12854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/raceandequality.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/WhatsApp-Image-2020-03-25-at-33211-PM-1024x768.jpeg\")