subsequently, the Court has received information from the State and from the victims’
representatives on the implementation of this measure of reparation. In this regard, the
Court will rule opportunely on all the information received in the context of the procedure of
monitoring jointly the eight Colombian cases, without prejudice to receiving, if necessary,
pertinent and urgent, information concerning the victims of the instant case from the State,
the representatives and the Commission.18
c) Obligation to take the necessary steps to guarantee conditions for the
return of those displaced from El Aro and La Granja (seventeenth
operative paragraph of the Judgment)
21.
Regarding the obligation to take the necessary steps to guarantee safe conditions so
that the former inhabitants of the villages of El Aro and La Granja who were displaced may
return, as applicable and if they so wish, the State advised that the heads of the Presidential
Agency for Social Action had set up a Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law
Team for prevention of and comprehensive attention to internal forced displacement, and
that the Social Action Agency had put in place the System of Attention to Displaced
Population, the JUNTOS National Network, and the Retornar es Vivir strategy. In view of the
fact that the victims referred to in the Judgment have not been fully identified, the Social
Action Agency has implemented numerous measures to achieve the full identification of the
population universe and has focused its efforts on the identification and characterization of
the members of the displaced population, as well as on finding and entering into direct
contact with them, which are essential phases in providing them with attention. The State
indicated that, of the total of 709 beneficiaries, 318 have been “included in the Unified
Registry of Displaced Population” (RUPD), one has not been included, and 390 have not
been verified (including 300 undocumented persons). Of the 318 in the RUPD, 309
beneficiaries have been included in the “JUNTOS Strategy”; of these, 78 are with the Basic
family program [Línea Base Familiar] or Session 3. Also, of these 318 in the RUPD, 68 are
beneficiaries of the program “Families in Action,” and 219 benefit from a subsidized regime
under the Unified Registry of Affiliates of the Social Protection System (hereinafter “RUAF”)
while 38 are included under the contributive regime. The Social Action Agency has
coordinated “inter-institutional procedures” to incorporate the beneficiaries into existing
programs in the components of income generation, housing, and land. This agreement was
established with the representatives of the victims.
22.
The State referred to the main challenges: to apply the indicators that have been
designed for the JUNTOS strategy to the beneficiaries of Annex IV of the Judgment of the
Court and other beneficiaries of the amparo decision ordering the registration procedure, in
order to evaluate the effective enjoyment of the rights of the respective population; to
obtain a baseline for all the families who are beneficiaries of the Judgment that have been
located to date, in order to proceed to include them in programs that exist or to be created;
to enhance the attention and comprehensive reparation to the victims of the violence in
accordance with the requirements established in the Victims Act; to ensure that the
attention to the displaced population beneficiary of the Court’s Judgment is incorporated
into the Single Comprehensive Program for the Displaced Population that integrates
nationwide and territorial efforts, and to make an effort to ensure that the entities involved
in providing attention and reparation to the beneficiaries of the Ituango Judgment make
their offer of services more flexible in keeping with the characteristics of the target
population.
18
Cf. Case of the Ituango Massacres v. Colombia, Order of the President of the Inter-American Court of
Human Rights of December 22, 2010, on monitoring compliance with judgment.
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