We want you alive to continue moving against war, for peace, for the guarantee of rights and democracy!

We, Colombian women, from our identitary, sexual, ethnic, spiritual, political, and territorial diversities, participants in the III National Summit of Women and Peace, coming from territories that struggle and claim the right to live free of violence, in peace and with social justice, are historical defenders of life and the protection of the planet because for decades we have lived in our bodies, territories, and families the persistence of a war that day by day is getting worse.

Therefore, we affirm that:

• It is urgent that the Colombian State face the crisis of the current economic development model that generates poverty, hunger, exclusion, socio-ecological problems, and global warming, which affect women and their diversity in a differentiated manner. We require decisive action by the State, through social investment and political dialogue, to put an end to the worsening violence, power disputes, and control of natural resources by armed actors.

 

• The State must guarantee the right to life, to participation, to peaceful protest, and to generate the conditions for women to have a life free of violence in the public and private spheres.

 

• We demand the guarantee of the right to life with dignity and to personal and sexual integrity, in order to continue demanding full compliance with the Final Peace Agreement; the expansion of democracy in favor of women; and the effective enjoyment of our rights to truth, justice, reparation and the guarantee of non-repetition.
  We want you alive to continue moving in favor of life, rights, and democracy, in order to advance in the construction of peace and a reconciled society, respectful of diversities, protective of nature and non-human living beings! A society in which dialogue is the main instrument to deal with public and private conflicts.

Reafirmamos:

• Our unwavering commitment to defend full compliance with the Final Peace Agreement because what has been agreed is an ethical, humanitarian, environmental, social, cultural, political, economic, constitutional, and legal imperative. It is a historic opportunity that we must not squander or postpone. It is the least we owe to present and future generations.

 

• The need for the State and the National Liberation Army (ELN), and other armed groups, to advance in humanitarian commitments, in dialogues for a negotiated political solution to the internal armed conflict and to reach definitive agreements that contribute to complete peace and the good living of the Colombian people.

 

• That, in order to achieve a stable and lasting peace, it is necessary to comply with point 3.4.3. of the Final Peace Agreement, regarding the National Commission of Security Guarantees for the dismantling of criminal organizations and behaviors responsible for homicides and massacres, that attempt against human rights defenders, social movements or political movements or that threaten or attempt against people who participate in the implementation of the agreements and the construction of peace, including criminal organizations that have been denominated as successors of paramilitarism and their support networks.

 

• Our rejection of the unnecessary, excessive and disproportionate use of force by agents of the National Police, its Mobile Anti-riot Squadron (ESMAD), and the Army to disperse and restrict the right to social protest.

 

• Our rejection of all policies and actions that deepen conflicts and violations of human rights, land, and territory, such as: forced eradication of illicit crops and the use of fumigations against the manual eradication agreed in the Final Peace Agreement; and the recruitment of girls and young people by armed actors.

 

We women in diversity, participants in the III National Summit of Women and Peace recognize that:

• Thanks to the active resistance of women in their territories and their peace-building actions, the implementation of the Final Peace Agreement has been sustained despite an adverse context and the State’s failure to comply with the agreement.

 

• The broad and decisive social mobilization of young people, women, trade unionists, social and popular sectors, social organizations of historically excluded Colombians abroad brought to public attention the injustices and inequalities experienced by women, young people, ethnic groups, and a large rural, peasant and urban population. Covid-19 highlighted the negative impact of neoliberal policies and privatization of public health on the lives of women, the most impoverished sectors, and the Colombian middle class.

 

• The inclusion of women’s rights and the gender approach in the Final Peace Agreement is the historical legacy of the women who preceded us and of the feminist organizations that throughout the country came to the Dialogue Table with proposals and demanded to be non-agreed pactors.

 

• Thanks to the courage, commitment, and active resistance of women, men, young people, girls, and boys in the territories disputed by armed actors, we continue to defend life, ecosystems, participation and the social fabric threatened by violence.
• The importance of the international community and its organizations in the political, technical, and economic accompaniment of the implementation of the Final Peace Agreement.

We, women in diversity, participants in the III National Summit of Women and Peace consider that:

• The continuous militarization of rural and peasant territories; the stigmatization of leaders, women leaders, human rights defenders and against the peaceful protest of young people, women, trade unionists, and social and popular sectors by the Colombian government, civil servants, and sectors of society; as well as the unnecessary, excessive and disproportionate use of force by agents of the National Police, its Mobile Anti-riot Squadron (ESMAD) and the Army, threaten the right to life, participation, peaceful protest and increase the risk to peace signatories and to those who work for the defense and promotion of human rights and territory.

 

• The insufficient progress in the fulfillment of the women’s rights and gender approach in the implementation of the Final Peace Agreement does not guarantee the social transformations of the injustices, exclusions, inequities, and inequalities that women experience, and we are concerned that:

 

▪ Nowadays, only 4% of the total resources of the General Budget of the Nation have been identified for gender actions, according to the Comptroller General of the Republic.

▪ Nowadays, there is no identifier of gender resources in the budget tracer for the implementation of the Final Peace Agreement, which would make it possible to make visible and follow up on the resources allocated for the implementation of the human rights and gender approach. And that only 11% of the total resources allocated to the Policy of Attention and Integral Reparation for Victims in 2020 to 2021 were marked as oriented to gender actions. However, only 2% of these resources are exclusively for women victims of armed conflict (Office of the Comptroller General of the Republic, 2021).

▪ In general, the entities do not have specific gender diagnoses that serve as a basis for understanding the conditions of men, women, and the LGTBI population.

▪ Towards a new Colombian countryside: Comprehensive Rural Reform. Only 826 women were beneficiaries of land allocation, as of June 30, 2021, Land Renewal Agency (ART). No significant progress has been made in the implementation of commitments such as the productive inclusion of women and labor inclusion in non-traditional areas; linking women’s organizations as logistics service providers or strengthening women’s solidarity organizations. Only 301 women have been benefited from the Comprehensive Land Subsidy between 2017 and 2020. As of June 30, 2021, 108 subsidies had been granted, of which 31 (28.7%) corresponded to women (Procuraduría General de la Nación, 2021).

▪ Of the 163,191 hectares formalized, 67,118 hectares have benefited 14,155 rural women and peasant women holders, and although women participate in 56% of the titles, they only participate in 41% of the hectares, which maintains the disparity between men and women (CINEP/PP-CERAC Technical Secretariat,2021).

▪ The 41% participation of women in the construction process of the Development Programs with a Territorial Approach (PDET) is recognized; however, there is concern that in the prioritization exercises for their implementation, not all measures involving women are being included; measures are only being implemented in inter-institutional scenarios, excluding them and their communities from this process.

▪ Political Participation: democratic openness. Progress has been made in only 32.72% of the commitments established in the Implementation Framework Plan (PMI). Implementation Framework Plan (PMI). Of the 45 PMI indicators analyzed by the Attorney General’s Office, 18 have no progress information for any year, and of these, only 6 include gender classification.

▪ Of the 15 PMI indicators that were in the finalization stage by 2020, in the opinion of the Attorney General’s Office, 8 have not complied with the terms established in the Final Peace Agreement.

▪ No significant progress has been made to promote parity in the participation of women; the broadening of the participation of all social and popular sectors; guarantees for political opposition or for the exercise of the fundamental right to protest and demonstration.

▪ On the contrary, it is evident that the crisis of political representation has worsened and no progress has been made as a society in the peaceful handling of conflicts.

▪ In point 4. End of the conflict and guarantees of non-repetition: sustainability of the agreements, the generalized stigmatization of women peace signatories in the communities and institutions. There is evidence of favoring the participation of reincorporated men in some inter-institutional and external spaces; the situation of insecurity and cross violence against women peace signatories, leaders, women leaders, and human rights defenders, especially Afro-Colombian, indigenous or belonging to rural and peasant communities; the increase of selective assassinations, massacres, and planting of anti-personnel mines in areas of dispute and illicit crops.

▪ There has been no progress in the implementation of public policies aimed at guaranteeing security and conditions for the exercise of leadership and political activism of women in their diversities; there is little progress in terms of achieving the objectives of the National Commission for Guarantees of

Security and the High-Level Instance of the Integral Security System for the Exercise of Politics (SISEP); there is also an evident failure to comply with the pillars and strategies of the guarantees of non-repetition and sustainability of what has been agreed.

▪ Regarding point 5. Victims of the armed conflict. Of concern are the difficulties related to the systems of access to information for the victims inside and outside the country; the territorial deployment of the institutions; the participation of the victims in the processes victims inside and outside the country; the territorial deployment of the institutions; the participation of the victims in the processes carried out in the entities of the system and the implementation of actions for coexistence and non-repetition.

▪ Regarding the participation of victims in the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (SJP), the methodological freedom that has characterized the approach to each case has led to different types of decisions being made. This, in the long term, may have negative effects on the principles of equality and legal certainty of the victims and the participants (Procuraduría General de la Nación, 2020).

▪ Situations of victimization, risk, and insecurity persist in the territories for women, women leaders and women human rights defenders as a result of the weak and almost non-existent economic and technical support for the strengthening of women’s leadership; psychosocial accompaniment; and conditions that guarantee the rights to truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-repetition. We, the women participants in the Third National Summit of Women and Peace, mandate:

1. The integral fulfillment of the Final Peace Agreement; of the 130 measures set forth therein for women; the implementation of the Integral Program of Guarantees for Women Human Rights Defenders, and the territorial action plans; of the incorporation of the gender approach in the implementation.
2. The increase of 50% of the resources allocated from the General Budget of the Nation to guarantee compliance with what was agreed for the approach to women’s rights and gender for the next periods, as established by the Constitutional Court.
3. Construct the budget tracer for the implementation of the Final Peace Agreement, which allows for the visibility and follow-up of the resources allocated for the implementation of the human rights and gender approach in the agreement.
4. The immediate cessation of violence against the signatories of the Final Peace Agreement guarantees the investigation and punishment of those responsible for the crimes committed.
5. Guarantee the free exercise of the right to vote for women in the territories, especially in the municipalities where the Special Peace Constituencies will vote.
6. To the competent authorities, comply with Constitutional Court Ruling SU020-22, which declared an unconstitutional state of affairs (ECI) due to the low level of implementation of the component of security guarantees for the signatory population in transition to civilian life, provided for in numeral 3.4. of the Final Peace Agreement, developed by constitutional and legal norms.
7. The Congress of the Republic to assume a real commitment to the integral fulfillment of the Final Peace Agreement. Likewise, local and departmental governments to assume the same commitment and the allocation of the resources required for this purpose.
8. That the national public policy on women, currently under construction, clearly incorporates in its objectives and goals the fulfillment of the Final Peace Agreement.
9. That the integrity of the public health policy incorporates sexual and reproductive health, mental health and take into account ancestral knowledge of care and self-care.

 

We women have complied, it is time for the State to comply!

Bogotá D.C., February 3 and 4, 2022.