Restricted citizenship of women victims of armed conflict in Colombia due to barriers to access to justice

Abstract

Violence against women is a relevant topic for the analysis and construction of proposals and alternatives for resolving this type of violence that persists in all settings, being more exacerbated and intense in the geographical, social and cultural spaces of armed conflict in the That women are the target of attacks caused by the fact of “being a woman” and that revictimizes them because they are prevented from exercising their fundamental rights and freedoms, that is to say their citizenship. The present document, theorizes in the subjects of citizenship and access to justice based on the human rights approach, evidencing the articulation that exists between these components. Additionally, it describes the barriers to access to justice and presents a reflection that allows to conclude that these obstacles impede the full exercise of citizenship to women victims of armed conflict, because all of them obey the social and cultural patterns on which they were built Societies based on historically unequal relations of power between men and women and are anchored in patriarchal culture.