51 groups most severely affected by the displacement. The crisis of domestic displacement, in turn, causes a security crisis, because the groups of internally displaced persons become a new focus or resource for recruitment by the paramilitary groups themselves, by drug traffickers, and by the guerrilla forces. Return of the displaced persons to their homes in most cases lacks the necessary conditions of safety and dignity for them.61 96.60 The departments that have suffered this phenomenon most severely are Antioquia, Santander, Meta, Córdova, and Boyacá, as the regions “responsible for expelling” most of the affected population. The departments of Cundinamarca, Santander, Antioquia, Córdova, Norte de Santander, Boyacá, and Atlántico, in turn, have received most of the displaced population groups. Since 2001 the phenomenon of displacement has become more acute in Meta, among other departments.62 96.61 There has been a great variety of public policies regarding the problem of displaced population, including multiple laws, decrees, documents of the National Council on Economic and Social Policy [Consejo Nacional de Política Económica y Social, CONPES], presidential orders and directives, and support programs by individuals or private or international bodies. The above include Law 387 of July 18, 1997, “which adopts measures to prevent forced displacement; to care for, protect, and socio-economically stabilize and reinforce the population internally displaced by violence in the Republic of Colombia”; Decree 250 of February 7, 2005, “which issues the National Plan for Comprehensive Care of the Population Displaced by Violence and issues other provisions;” and Decree 2.007 of September 24, 2001, “which partially regulates Articles 7, 17 and 19 of Law 387 of 1997, regarding timely support for the rural population displaced by violence, in the framework of voluntary return to their places of origin or their resettlement in another place, and which adopts measures to prevent this situation.”63 61 See judgment T-025/04 of January 22, 2004, issued by the Third Appellate Chamber of the Constitutional Court (file with appendixes to the final pleadings submitted by the representatives, volume I, page 5154); judgment T-721/03 of August 20, 2003, issued by the Eighth Appellate Chamber of the Constitutional Court; National Program for comprehensive care of the population displaced by violence [Programa Nacional de atención integral a la población desplazada por la violencia] - CONPES – Presidential Advisory Office on Human Rights [Consejería Presidencial para los Derechos Humanos], document 2804 of September 13, 1995, National Planning Department of the Ministry of the Interior; Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Report of the Special Rapporteur on adequate standard of living, E/CN.4/2005/48, 3 March 2005, para. 38, and report by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the human rights situation in Colombia, E/CN.4/2003/13, February 24, 2003, para. 94 (file with appendixes to the brief containing pleadings and motions, appendix 41, page 3717). 62 See National Program for comprehensive care of the population displaced by violence - CONPES – Presidential Advisory Office on Human Rights document 2804 of September 13, 1995, National Planning Department of the Ministry of the Interior, page 3; Report by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the human rights situation in Colombia, E/CN.4/2003/13, February 24, 2003 (file with appendixes to the brief containing pleadings and motions, appendix 41, page 3716), and Report by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the human rights situation in Colombia, E/CN.4/2001/15, March 20, 2001 (file with appendixes to the brief containing pleadings and motions, appendix 39, page 3630). 63 See judgment T-025/04 of January 22, 2004, issued by the Third Appellate Chamber of the Constitutional Court (file with appendixes to the final pleadings submitted by the representatives, volume I, pages 5169, 5170, 5171, 5172, 5181 and 5233); Law 387 of 1997 (July 18), “which adopts measures to prevent forced displacement; to care for, protect, and socio-economically stabilize and reinforce the population internally displaced by violence in the Republic of Colombia” (file with appendixes to the brief containing pleadings and motions, appendix 53, page 3938), and Decree 250 of February 7, 2005, “which issues the National Plan for Comprehensive Care of the Population Displaced by Violence and issues other provisions”.

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