Abstract

VASQUEZ SANTAMARIA, Jorge Eduardo; GOMEZ VELEZ, Martha Isabel  and  MARTINEZ HINCAPIE, Hernán Darío. The Mocoa tragedy: Example of a retrospective without an end point in the management of the risk of disasters detonated by natural events?. Rev. Derecho [online]. 2018, n.50, pp.145-186. ISSN 0121-8697.  https://doi.org/10.14482/dere.50.0007.

The Mocoa tragedy repositions the issue of disaster risk management and population resettlement processes on the national agenda, and with it, the protection of Human Rights of populations vulnerable to these events. The tragedy coincides with the culmination of the First Enlargement Report for the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), carried out by the Law Clinic of Public Interest of the Autonomous Latin American University (CJIP UNAULA), which was derived from a Thematic Hearing on 19 March 2015. The First Report shares the main components through which it seeks to accredit the support required by the IACHR to strengthen the assertions against the State of Colombia. Having a general description of its components, it addresses disaster risk management as a collective right, it leads to the evolution of legislation as a legal platform for expanded information on the reality of Human Rights of resettlement-process-prone populations; and finally it realizes the consolidated statistics on the victims, which reveal the scenario of disaster risk management in the last fifteen years, a retrospective that found in Mocoa a favorable scenario to backslide in terms of violation of Human Rights.

Keywords : Risk management; collective law; normative reconstruction; natural event.

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