Aplicación del Derecho Internacional Humanitario en Colombia

The purpose of this essay aims to explain and analyze what it is, what the application parameters are, how the application of International Humanitarian Law has been in Colombia and what are the humanitarian challenges that the country must face. The Colombian State has almost 70 years of internal armed conflict and having signed the 1949 Geneva Conventions, in 1994 it approved Protocol II, “it has been a State Party to the American Convention on Human Rights since July 31, 1973 and recognized the competence of the Court on June 21, 1985 ”(IACHR, 2004). Until 2019, the application of International Humanitarian Law has not been correct, the Constitutionality Block is an effective means for its application. Currently there are 243,547 victims (AA, 2018) of the armed conflict, the International Committee of the Red Cross stated that there are currently five Organized Armed Groups, and to reduce the humanitarian crisis, International Humanitarian Law must be effectively applied (ICRC, 2018), The war is not yet over and there are still challenges that the Colombian State must meet. International regulations must not only be applied through the courts, the Military Forces must also do so, as required by it. The present essay is argumentative, since evidence based on Legal Frameworks, Jurisprudence, among others, National and International, will be exposed. Of these, a critical position has been taken regarding how the application of international Humanitarian Law has been in Colombia and how it should be for counter the humanitarian crisis.