63 294 men look for some kind of work in or away from the immediate vicinity of their new location. As regards the children, the Colombian Episcopal Conference recorded that approximately 70% of displaced persons 295 were minors. 279. The State also recognizes the breadth and scope of the problem and Colombian 296 legislation provides for rules on internal displacement. The Constitutional Court of Colombia, for its part, issued a comprehensive judgment in which it considered the tutela remedies lodged by 1,150 297 displaced families. In its judgment, the Court declared that the situation of more than three million displaced individuals was alarming and referred to the situation of vulnerability of the displaced in the following terms: from the circumstances surrounding the internal displacement, the persons who are obliged "to abruptly abandon their place of residence and habitual economic activities, being forced to move to another place within the frontiers of the national territory" to flee the violence generated by the internal armed conflict, and the systematic disregard of human rights and international humanitarian law, remain exposed to a much greater level of vulnerability, which implies a grave, massive and systematic violation of their fundamental rights, and, thus, deserve to be granted special attention by the authorities: "The persons displaced by violence find themselves in a debilitated state which merits their receiving special treatment on the State's part." In the same order of ideas, the Court indicated that "the necessity of slanting the State's political agenda to the solution of internal displacement and the duty to give it priority over many other issues on the public agenda", given the fundamental impact that this phenomenon exercises on national life, due to its 298 scale and psychological, political and socio-economic consequences. 280. The Constitutional Court has also determined that the humanitarian crisis caused by the phenomenon of internal displacement is of such magnitude that it may be categorized as a "true state of social emergency"; "a national tragedy, affecting the destinies of countless Colombians and will scar the Country's future for the next decades" and "a serious danger for the political society of Colombia." It established that it involves a "massive, prolonged and systematic violation" of a whole range of fundamental rights, whose content it interpreted in the light of the Guiding Principles on Forced 299 Displacement. 281. The Constitutional Court also declared that the situation of the persons displaced by the violence in Colombia constitutes "an uncons titutional state of affairs". It established that there is a massive and repeated violation of the human rights of the displaced population and the 300 structural failings of the State's policies are a key contributing element. The Court ruled on the 294 Annex 15. IACHR. Third Report on the Situation of Human Rights in Colombia, Ch.IV. OEA/Ser.L/V/II.102 Doc. 9 rev. 1, February 26, 1999, para. 26. At: http://www.cidh.org/countryrep/Colom99en/table%20of%20contents.htm. 295 Annex 15. IACHR. Third Report on the Situation of Human Rights in Colombia, Ch.IV. OEA/Ser.L/V/II.102 Doc. 9 rev. 1, February 26, 1999, para. 29. At: http://www.cidh.org/countryrep/Colom99en/table%20of%20contents.htm. 296 Law 387 of 1997 "adopts measures for prevention of enforced displacement, assistance, protection, consolidation, and socio-economic stabilization of persons displaced by violence" and provides a series of mechanisms for guaranteeing such rights for the displaced and for preventing the causes of displacement. Cf. IACHR. Third Report on the Situation of Human Rights in Colombia, Ch. VI. OEA/Ser.L/V/II.102 Doc. 9 rev. 1, February 26, 1999, para. 12. 297 Second highest number of displaced persons in the world after the Sudan. See Annex 20. United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) 2009. 2008 Global Trends, Asylum- Seekers, Returnees, Internally Displaced and Stateless Persons. In: http//www.unhcr.org/4a374c426.html. 298 Cf. Annex 21. Constitutional Court of Colombia. Judgment T-025/04 of January 22, 2004. See I/A Court H.R. Case of the “Mapiripán Massacre” v. Colombia. Judgment of September 15, 2005. Series C No. 134, para. 174. At: http://www.corteconstitucional.gov.co/relatoria/Autos/2008/A092-08.htm. 299 Cf. Annex 21. Constitutional Court of Colombia. Judgment T-025/04 of January 22, 2004. See Case of the “Mapiripán Massacre” v. Colombia. Judgment of September 15, 2005. Series C No. 134, para. 176. At: http://www.corteconstitucional.gov.co/relatoria/Autos/2008/A092-08.htm. 300 Annex 21. Constitutional Court of Colombia. http://www.corteconstitucional.gov.co/relatoria/Autos/2008/A092-08.htm. Judgment T-025/04 of January 22, 2004. At: