46 increase in the number and scope of military actions and the coercion by the armed actors especially impacted women and their organizations, including threats and assaults directed against women and their families, leading to their displacement.179 The report indicates, in particular, that: Although displacement is simultaneously a violation of all rights (civil, political, social, economic, and cultural) and an infraction of international humanitarian law, in the case of the women who participate in social organizations it is often preceded by violent acts and is geared to disrupting 180 organizational processes. 173. It is also important to note pronouncements by the Constitutional Court of Colombia referring to the risks women human rights defenders face in the Colombian armed conflict. For example, Judgment T-496 of 2008 issued by the Constitutional Court of Colombia protected the rights to life, security, liberty, physical integrity, and access to justice for several women human rights defenders.181 In that judgment the Constitutional Court found that given their gender, women defenders of women’s human rights “are exposed to particular risks and to a specific situation of vulnerability in many aspects of their lives in the context of the armed conflict. In their legal action they reveal their status as victims who have survived violent acts, a situation that imposes extreme and abrupt material and psychological burdens on them.”182 174. In its Order 092-08 – adopted to protect the fundamental rights of women displaced by the armed conflict – the Constitutional Court of Colombia also identified belonging to social organizations and the performance of leadership work and the promotion of human rights by women in areas affected by the armed conflict as a gender risk that furthers the forced displacement of women human rights defenders.183 The Constitutional Court documented, in its judgment, having received information from several entities indicating that women who take on public visibility as representatives of women’s, social, and community organizations have become targets of homicides, persecution, arrests, arbitrary detentions, torture, disappearance, acts of sexual violence, and threats by members of illegal armed groups, including in places such as Medellín.184 These acts have also been directed against members of their families.185 Notwithstanding the efforts made by the Colombian State to overcome the problems identified by the Constitutional Court, the IACHR continues receiving information about the specific risks to their security that women human rights defenders continue to face in the context of the armed conflict due to their sex, their status as social leaders, and the incompatibility of their work with the interests of the armed actors in the conflict.186 179 Mesa de Trabajo Mujeres y Conflicto Armado, Informe sobre Violencia Socio-Política Contra Mujeres, Jóvenes, y Niñas en Colombia, Third Report 2002, February 2003, p. 14. 180 Mesa de Trabajo Mujeres y Conflicto Armado, Informe sobre Violencia Socio-Política Contra Mujeres, Jóvenes, y Niñas en Colombia, Third Report 2002, February 2003, p. 14. 181 Constitutional Court of Colombia, Judgment http://www.nrc.org.co/biblioteca/sentencia-T-496-08.pdf. 182 T-496 2008 (Case T-1783291), available at: Constitutional Court of Colombia, Judgment T-496 of 2008 (Case T-1783291), para. 10.4. 183 Constitutional Court of Colombia, http://www.corteconstitucional.gov.co/relatoria/autos/2008/a092-08.htm 184 Constitutional Court of Colombia, Order 092-08, Section III.1.5. 185 Constitutional Court of Colombia, Order 092-08, Section III.1.5. 186 of Order 092-08, available at: Video, IACHR, Thematic Hearing, Situation of the Human Rights of Women in Colombia, March 14, 2013, available at: http://www.oas.org/es/cidh/audiencias/advanced.aspx?lang=es; IACHR, Press Release, IACHR’s Preliminary Observations on