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Análisis Político

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ROMERO MEDINA, Flor Alba. ARMED CONFLICT, SCHOOL, AND HUMAN RIGHTS IN COLOMBIA. anal.polit. [online]. 2013, vol.26, n.77, pp.57-84. ISSN 0121-4705.

This article reports on the violation of the right to education, recognized constitutionally and normatively in Colombia, of children and young people of the Department of Antioquia, in the period between 1985 and 2005, analyzing this right in light of the International Law Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law in the context of armed conflict over six decades and has led to the displacement of four million people. International humanitarian law says the protection of children and young people - and goods-civil-schools, with examples showing violations by armed groups to use schools as hosting site, trenches, place to do proselytism and recruitment and as a center of torture and training operations, also includes the school as a protection for communities, when they had to leave their homes and take shelter in the midst of the conflict, the use of school prevents normal academic and enjoyment of the right to education. The article contains the pronouncements of the international community in expressing concern about the affectations of the educational community as a result of the armed conflict. Ends with the issue of indiscriminate planting of mines, used as a strategy of war by the armed, law that prohibits giving examples of some schools affected by this situation and pointing governmental and non-governmental actions undertaken in the Department of Antioquia for counteract it.

Keywords : Human Rights; School; Colombia.

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