The Right to Truth in Colombia's Comprehensive System of Truth, Justice, Reparation, and Non-Repetition. A Direct Approach to the Intrinsic Relationship between its Mechanisms and Objectives
| Autor | Laura Chaparro Piedrahíta |
| Cargo | Holds a Bachelor of Law (LL. B) from EAFIT University in Medellín, Colombia |
| Páginas | 1-15 |
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The Right to Truth in Colombia’s Comprehensive System
of Truth, Justice, Reparation, and Non-Repetition. A Direct
Approach to the Intrinsic Relationship between its Mechanisms
and Objectives
El derecho a la verdad en el Sistema Integral de Verdad, Justicia, Reparación y
No Repetición en Colombia. Una aproximación a la relación intrínseca entre sus
mecanismos y objetivos
Laura Chaparro Piedrahíta1
Cómo citar: Chaparro, L. (2022). The Right to Truth in Colombia’s Comprehensive System of Truth, Justice, Reparation,
and Non-Repetition. A Direct Approach to the Intrinsic Relationship between its Mechanisms and Objectives. Nuevo
Derecho; 18(31): 1-15. https://doi.org/10.25057/2500672X.1462
Recibido/24/04/2022 – Aceptado/11/09/2022 – Publicado/15/12/2022
Abstract
The peace deal between the Colombian Government and the former Revolutionar y
Armed Forces of Colombia established the Comprehensive System of Truth,
Justice, Reparation, and Non-Repetition, comprised of the Truth, Coexistence, and
Non-Repetition Commission, the Special Jurisdiction for Peace, and the Unit for the
Search of Persons Presumed Disappeared in the context and because of the armed
measures of non-recurrence as stipulated in the Final Agreement for the Termination of
critical and imperative aspects is the right to truth for the victims of serious human rights
violations and their relatives. This right, conceived primarily as a human right, coexists
with the other three pillars of transitional justice, interacting and complementing them.
up the Comprehensive System, to conclude that, although each mechanism pursues a
different kind of truth, there is a bond of complementarity between them, addressing
the rights of its victims and their needs, structuring a collective memory on the war in
Colombia.
Keywords: Right to the truth, transitional justice, human rights, Comprehensive
System of Truth, Justice, Reparation, and Non-Repetition.
1 Laura Chaparro Piedrahíta holds a Bachelor of Law (LL. B) from EAFIT University in Medellín, Colombia. She is
currently pursuing a Master of Human Rights at Friedrich Alexander Universität- Erlangen- Nürnberg, Germany. Email:
laura.chaparro@fau.de
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