EL PILÓN spoke with Wilson Castañedamember of the Committee for Monitoring the Recommendations of the Truth Commission, who will hold an event in Valledupar.
How was the Committee for Monitoring the Recommendations of the Truth Commission born?
This Committee was born by the decree law that created the Transitional Justice System in 2016 and became operational in August 2022 when the period of the Truth Commission ended. The Committee has a period of 7 years.
What is the objective of the event that takes place in Valledupar?
Fulfilling the mission, we have presented to the public our first follow-up and monitoring report on the recommendations of the Truth Commission. What brings us to Valledupar is a socialization from a territorial perspective.
This report revolves around the 77 recommendations left by the Truth Commission and is divided into three chapters.
What are the chapters?
Firstly, it tells how the current national Government accepted these recommendations through the National Development Plan, where the Government managed to match 44 recommendations of the Truth Commission.
The second place shows how in the legislative year between July 2022 and July 2023, the Congress of the Republic discussed 77 bills that were related to the recommendations, of which 5 new laws materialized in the country.
And the third finding speaks of the progress that the Ministries have made when incorporating recommendations into their work plans.
What are these advances?
Five ministries are particularly highlighted. The Ministry of Education with its proposal ‘The school embraces the truth’; the Ministry of Foreign Affairs with the reactivation of Resolution 1225, ‘Women, peace and armed conflict’.
The Ministry of Justice by strengthening differential approaches in access to justice in the territories; the Ministry of Defense with the review of its training structure within the framework of the Public Force and the Ministry of Agriculture with all its commitment to rural reform.
How to land the report in Valledupar?
In Valledupar there is a node of the allied network. We are going to meet with them. Also with departmental authorities. We are going to deliver a group of 24 specific recommendations that we believe may be appropriate to be implemented in territorial entities.
We want those who are elected to incorporate these recommendations into their Development Plan so that the territory is in tune with the country. With the key actors we will reflect on what challenges the report leaves for the territory. An example: one of the findings this year has to do with the law that created the Ministry of Equality.
We are going to develop some questions: In what way do population groups such as indigenous people, Afro-descendants, young people, LGBTIQ+ people in the department, need to consolidate an exercise of access to rights?
