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La justicia transicional en Colombia: ¿Un instrumento creado para erradicar la impunidad?
Transitional Justice in Colombia: A Mechanism to Erradicate Impunity?;
A Justiça Transicional na Colômbia: Um Instrumento Criado para Erradicar a Impunidade?
Autor
Loyo Cabezudo, Joana
Institución
Resumen
The 12 November 2016 Final Agreement between the Colombian government andthe FARC-EP to put an end to the armed conflict in Colombia, raises a number ofissues on whether various aspects of the Agreement on Victims meet internationallegal standards, especially those provided for in the Statute of the InternationalCriminal Court. The present article looks into the issue of whether or not the FinalAgreement is an instrument to eradicate impunity. In order to do so, the articleanalyses what impunity from an international law perspective is, the relationshipbetween impunity and transitional justice and the influence of the InternationalCriminal Court in transitional processes.