On April 9, 2024, for the first time in history, a full session of the United Nations Security Council received a briefing on security issues impacting lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, and queer (LGBTIQ) people during the council’s quarterly meeting on Colombia. In her statement, the director of the human rights organization Colombia Diversa called on the council to “send a powerful signal to the LGBTQ population in Colombia that their lives matter and that you will stand by your commitment to protect their rights.”
Today, Colombians will return to the polls to vote in the second round of the country’s presidential elections. Six years after the peace deal between the government of Colombia and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) brought five decades of conflict to an end, voters will choose between two different futures for Colombia.
The fate of the country’s historic peace process — and how it impacts Colombians living amid a fragile truce — may well be at stake. Both candidates have said they are going to support the implementation of the peace process but the detail of that support isn’t always clear. This has understandably made those most impacted by the conflict, who worked hard to broker peace, apprehensive.
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