Escudo de Colombia y texto de la Unidad para las Víctimas

The Unit works for the prevention of the illicit recruitment of children and adolescents

The Unified Victim Registry includes 7,681 children and adolescents as victims of activities related to illegal armed groups. The Unit advances in the attention and reparation of this population.

Of the 7,681 children and adolescents registered as victims of activities related to illegal armed groups, the Victims Unit has managed to compensate 28 percent and delivered humanitarian aid to 13 percent. During 2018, 61 cases of illicit recruitment were included in the Unified Victim Registry.

“From the Unit for Victims we join this commemoration in a joint manner with the other entities of the State, to prevent children and adolescents from being linked illegally to illegal armed groups. This population is part of our priorities in care, assistance and repair, “said Ramón Rodríguez, general director of entity.

According to the figures, threats of illicit recruitment or the linking of minors to armed groups have been one of the main causes of forced displacement in the country. Around 112,700 people have declared that they had to leave their territories for that cause.

Every February 12, the International Day of Red Hands is commemorated against the recruitment, use and use of children and adolescents for war, declared in 2002 in the framework of the protocol of the Convention on the Rights of Child.

Year after year, the Victims Unit and the other entities come together to prevent this scourge that is still latent in the country and that invites us to generate reflections to remember that children and adolescents are subjects of rights under the comprehensive protection of the State, which must guarantee education, health and well-being for this population.

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