Lecture 9 - History of Americas

Question 1

Whats the main focus of the presentation?

Answer 1

Protection of persons deprived of liberty at risk in Colombia, specifically the impacts of interim measures by the IACHR and IACourtHR
= Covers data 1994-2020
= Projekt, med PHDs, funded, Human rights,
= Jämför med COVID19, restriction of liberty of movement

Question 2

What are the guiding concepts for this?

Answer 2

• Impact
• Protection
• Standards
• Vulnerability
• Care

Question 3

How many interim measures were issued and what types?

Answer 3

9 measures: 1 provisional and 8 precautionary

Question 4

Who were the group beneficiaries of interim measures?

Answer 4

= Security (guerilla members in 2000, 2002, 2004; measures lifted in 2010)
= Common detainees and their relatives.

Question 5

Who were the individual beneficiaries of interim measures?

Answer 5

Security: 2 witnesses, 1 person injured by firearm

Health: 2 guerilla healthcare cases (cancer, wounds), 1 with incapacitating illness (COVID-19).

Question 6

What percentage of beneficiaries were guerillas?

Answer 6

21% (3,000 guerillas).

Question 7

How many prisons were affected by the measures?

Answer 7

7 out of 125 jails and prisons

Question 8

What were the overcrowding statistics in 2000 and 2024?

Answer 8

2000: Capacity 29,217; Population 42,454; Overcrowding 145%

2024: Capacity 82,052; Population 104,455; Overcrowding 127%.

Question 9

What are some preliminary impacts of interim measures?

Answer 9

Increased visibility of risks to beneficiaries

“Name and shame” effect

Affirmation of human rights

Professionalization of NGOs

Dialogue between State, NGOs, and IACHR

Discussion on protection standards.

Question 10

Why is the topic relevant?

Answer 10

Ongoing armed conflicts

Control of prison spaces by armed groups

Release of detainees.

Question 11

What were the risks for the guerilla members? That got lifted to an Human rights organ in D.C!

Answer 11

main argument: in the same prison, their enemies were in the prison, the armed conflict was taking place inside of the prisons.

Question 12

By 2010, what was the discourse regarding the conflict in Colombia

Answer 12

= 2010 → Högervindar, ny president, sa att det inte fanns en armed conflict i Colombia, “this is a war agaisnt terrorism”
= Criteria for saying that its a armed conflict: Gerillan var i det, Colombia nekade, drog slutsatsen gruppen inte var under risk
= The prisons main problem was not the conflict, but ONLY overcrowding; so the focus was on the infrastructure.
= US affects people in prison, war on terror and drugs,