This fourth major attempt to negotiate with the FARC since 1982 finally stuck. The enormity of these numbers only begins to convey the importance of the 2016 peace accord that disarmed and demobilized the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), by far the largest existing armed group. aid to Colombia’s security forces totaled US$7.7 billion between 19 alone.

The amount of sexual violence is no doubt shocking, but still untold.

Tens of thousands were recruited as children. Well over 20,000 people were kidnapped for ransom. Of today’s population of just over 50 million people (including nearly 2 million recently arrived Venezuelans), violence forced 8.2 million to leave their homes, and 9.2 million have registered with the government as conflict victims. Since two rural leftist guerrilla movements formed in 1964, then after right-wing paramilitary groups emerged in the 1980s, fighting on several fronts-often fueled by illicit profits-killed 260,000 Colombians and left 80,000 more missing. Perhaps they at least convey the urgency and importance of ending it at the negotiating table. Numbers alone hardly convey the horror of Colombia’s long armed conflict. | Download this report in e-book (.epub) format.

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government has been supportive, but there have been lapses

Key laws needed for accord implementation remain unpassed.

Inclusion of women and LGBTI people is not adequate.

The vision laid out in the Ethnic Chapter remains far from realization.

Transitional justice has made progress.

Voluntary crop substitution has nearly ground to a halt.

Social leaders and human rights defenders remain unprotected.

Protecting ex-combatants requires punishing their killers.

Demobilization was largely successful.

Special congressional districts for victims are a major, but fragile, advance.

Though the accord created space for political participation, it is closing.

With the state still absent, criminal and armed-group violence is increasing.

Rural reform is becoming less participatory.

Other big rural reform commitments are also running behind.

The crucial territorial development programs are running behind.

The implementation budget is falling behind its 15-year target.

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