In Colombia, almost 580,000 people have been forced to internally displace since the signing of the Peace Agreement with the extinct guerrilla Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).
In addition, the country received 1.7 million refugees and migrants from Venezuela.
The Alianza Por la Solidaridad-ActionAid report focuses on the women who were forced to move and the abuse and sexual assault to which they are subjected during the process and also highlights the main risks they face, such as domestic violence, intimate partner violence, sexual violence, sexual exploitation and human trafficking, according to the Europa Press news agency.
Thus, the situation of social and economic vulnerability, the loss of employment, the overload of care work at home and the lack of information and routes to follow in the face of violence have led many women to enter activities such as prostitution, early marriages and forced relationships.
This situation is mixed with the sexual exploitation and trade that the country is experiencing, especially in the border area with Venezuela, increasing the trafficking of women, girls and adolescents carried out by different armed groups.
In addition, the NGO also denounced that there are “threats and social cleansing” against these women in prostitution.
Femicide is “the latest and most serious threat” to which they are subjected, crimes that “occur daily in Colombia” and “mainly affect women leaders and human rights defenders.”
The most affected municipality is San José de Cúcuta, the capital of Norte de Santander department.
For this reason, the Spanish organization ActionAid appealed to the Colombian authorities and denounced that there is a gap in the actions carried out for survivors of gender-based violence.
“Of all the people who have requested care, only 10% have received any help,” said the report, carried out with the support of the EU Aid Volunteers program, promoted by the Humanitarian Aid office of the European Commission.
Alianza Por la Solidaridad-ActionAid underlined the need to strengthen mitigation and prevention strategies for all types of violence in a context in which the ‘trails’ -illegal roads used by the closure of official roads due to the pandemic, plagued by smugglers who charge migrants money to cross safely – and the presence of illegal groups increase the vulnerability of refugees.
Source From: Ambito
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