Women in the context of the Colombian armed conflict. Between tragedy and recognition

Abstract

Colombia, in 2016, signs the Peace Agreement with the FARC-EP guerrillas whose purpose is to end what was recognized, at the time, as the longest internal armed conflict in the Western Hemisphere. Within it, women were included as a population subject to special and differential treatment given the conditions they faced during gender-based violence.

This has allowed that, little by little, victimizing facts and situations of necessary reparation become known, as well as knowledge of the truth to allow the right not to be forgotten and symbolic reparation through the guarantee of non-repetition.

The foregoing has revealed, once again and with greater force, the need to address gender-based violence issues in the country, especially women and girls since the 1940s in Colombia. Therefore, through the qualitative approach and descriptive method, it was intended to account for the situation that occurred by women during the Colombian armed conflict, the result of which is evidenced in this article.