VI. RECOMMENDATIONS THE INTER-AMERICAN COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS RECOMMENDS THAT THE STATE OF COLOMBIA: 1. Conduct a complete, impartial, and effective investigation, within a reasonable period of time, that establishes all of the circumstances surrounding all of the crimes committed against journalist Jineth Bedoya Lima, including the threats and sexual violence, and determine all of the respective responsibilities (direct perpetrators, masterminds, accomplices, and accessories), including the possible participation of State agents. 2. Take the necessary measures to guarantee the safety of Jineth Bedoya and her family over the course of these investigations and proceedings. 3. Adopt effective protection measures to guarantee the safety of women journalists who are exposed to special risks on account of the practice of their profession, from a gender perspective. 4. Implement training programs for public servants, security forces, and justice authorities in order to ensure that they have the necessary knowledge to identify gender-based acts and manifestations of violence against women that affect female journalists, protect them in dangerous situations, and investigate and prosecute the perpetrators, including through the provision of tools and training on technical and legal aspects of these types of crimes. 5. Implement measures to raise public awareness about gender-based acts of violence against women journalists as attacks on freedom of expression, and provide clear information about the legal services and mechanisms available to support the victims of these types of acts. 6. Provide appropriate pecuniary and non-pecuniary reparations for the human rights violations that this report finds to have been committed against journalist Jineth Bedoya. 35