Desafíos de las clínicas jurídicas frente al desplazamiento forzado por causa de los desastres naturales: un análisis desde el caso colombiano

Abstract

Internal Forced Displacement due to natural disasters is a global problem that is increasing, almost three times over the figures of displacement derived from armed conflict and violence and affecting mainly small countries and those in development, which generates serious problems in terms of protection and guarantee of human rights for this sector of the population. The main objective of this research is to analyze how legal clinics, as a practice scenario for strategic litigation, are conceived as the suitable space for the defense of the rights and access to justice of the population that moves within a State due to natural disasters, historically invisible. That because their rights have been denied or temporarily and partially protected under the figure of charity or humanitarian assistance and should be done in a similar way to how human rights are protected in the framework of other migratory flows (refugees, asylees, migrants). This is based on the premise that clinics have already proven to be, in other matters related to the defense of human rights and the public interest, a means of complementarity in the face of the ineffectiveness of the State and its structural problems.