Summary

The Special Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence, Fabián Salvioli, presents his report on his visit to Colombia, in which he assesses the transitional justice measures taken by the Government to address the serious violations of human rights and international humanitarian law committed during the armed conflict.

The Special Rapporteur recognizes the progress that has been made with the construction of a sophisticated normative, institutional and programme-based mechanism for transitional justice; he highlights the establishment of holistic processes in the five pillars of the mandate, which involve considerable participation by victims and a differentiated ethnic and gender approach, and identifies the remaining challenges.