State Public Policies with a Human Rights-Based Approach in Colombia

Abstract

The Human Rights-Based Approach –EBDH– promulgated in 2003 at the UN, called the common understanding signature, was created for the member countries of the organization to incorporate in their policies, programs and plans the fulfillment of human rights, a signature preceded by the relationship between economic development and human rights raised in the mid-1980s by the aforementioned organization. Therefore, the objective of this paper is to know the progress obtained in the relationship between public policies and this approach in Colombia. The method used was a qualitative approach, with a non-experimental design; descriptive in scope through the documentary type, and the data collection technique was documentary analysis. In effect, the starting point was the initiative, trajectory and the relationship between the commitment assumed, as well as the actions of the States. The results show that despite the efforts of the High Counselor’s Office for Human Rights of the Presidency of the Republic, there is no public knowledge of the progress requested on the matter by the different control bodies of the country, such as the Comptroller’s Office, Prosecutor’s Office and Attorney General’s Office, and the capacity of the State and its respective political-administrative divisions: departments and municipalities to respond to this purpose is not reflected in the programs, plans or public policies of the country.