STATE PUBLIC POLICIES WITH HUMAN RIGHTS-BASED APPROACHES IN COLOMBIA SINCE THE SIGNING OF THE UNITED NATIONS COMMON UNDERSTANDING OF 2003.
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, over the course of his two terms in office (1997/2001–2002/2006), promoted a series of profound reforms aimed at advancing the rights of the world’s population through member states, including the incorporation of new non-state actors, such as the private sector and the global solidarity sector, to achieve this purpose. The call to review the capitalist model in light of conditions of inequality, global warming or climate change, and unilateralism itself, would end up serving as the prelude to the meetings that set in motion the reforms proposed regarding the Earth Summits and the application of the HRBA. At the Millennium Summit in 2000, two central documents were drafted for the development of UN reforms, known as: “The meaning of the international community” and “We the Peoples: The United Nations and Human Rights in the 21st Century”; documents that inspired the Millennium Development Goals (2000-2015), known today as the Sustainable Development Goals (2015-2030), which established global responsibility for the care of the planet and led to the signing of the UN Common Understanding on the Human Rights-Based Approach (HRBA) in 2003, toward which policies, programs and international cooperation would thereafter be oriented.
Although the signing of the Common Understanding on the HRBA initially committed UN areas, divisions or units, such as the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), the shift toward this approach would occur convergently at state summits, which henceforth would encourage in their programs, policies and international cooperation projects the inclusion of the guidelines set out since the signing of the HRBA, with the aim of accounting precisely for the commitments of the UN and states regarding the HRBA Common Understanding as guideposts for strengthening the role of the state in these fronts of global action.
The signing of the Common Understanding at the UN would entail, for its member states, adopting, mobilizing and promoting the HRBA principles in their purposes and functions, as reflected in Policies, Programs, Plans and Projects, as well as in the strategies contemplated within the framework of International Cooperation carried out among them; scenarios from which the various actions of states would have to be reviewed and measured in light of the HRBA, based on Access to Justice, Open Government, Accountability and Conflict Resolution, from which the parameters required for the fulfillment, monitoring and risk management of the HRBA would emerge. The aim is to establish the scope that the signing of the Common Understanding on the HRBA has had on State Public Policies in Colombia. It is a fact that the particular conditions of the internal conflict with anti-state groups and
