Afectación a los derechos humanos de los niños, niñas y adolescentes en el marco del reclutamiento

Abstract

The forced recruitment of minors has been a recurrent practice carried out by armed groups in the framework of the Colombian armed conflict, affecting the fundamental rights of young Colombians and their families, creating fractures in the social sphere of the country due to the implications it has on the social, psychological, affective, sexual and educational development of children and adolescents. Therefore, it is important to identify its modalities, structures, social, geographical, economic, gender and racial factors as the main aspects in the framework of the violation of the fundamental rights of minors to family, education and sexuality, while recognising the advances and actions taken by the Colombian State for the reparation of minor victims, seeking at the same time to be a form of reparation and a contribution to the construction of the historical memory and the investigation of the role of the minor soldier in the Colombian war. A qualitative research approach is used, in which the phenomenon and evolution of child recruitment in Colombia is analysed through documentary analysis of the theory of the circle of violence and the differential approach as a basis for identifying the violation of children's rights and statistics registered by official entities regarding the number and characterisation of victims.