SUMMARY AFFIRMATIVE ACTIONS, A STRATEGY OF RESISTANCE OF THE POPULATION IN VULNERABLE SITUATION IN COLOMBIA I want to thank for this wonderful opportunity to share in a scenario of analysis and reflection on today’s world issues that are of deep concern to all humanity, as is the condition of vulnerability of women and minority groups. I come from the other side of the world, from a dreamy city and with contrasting landscapes, where the magic of the natural landscape, monuments and history conspire to the unquestionable dressing of the kindness and warmth of our people the visitors receive the smiling embrace that has always characterized us. Cartagena de Indias, located in the Colombian Caribbean, is a city of mostly black population that still shows alarming rates of inequality, social exclusion, racial and extreme poverty. That picture becomes embarrassing mirror of a reality that demands the state and society to compliance of the challenges that could reduce the gap of marginalization of vulnerable groups as a vital sign of contribution to the building of a socially harmonious world and in peace. My brief intervention on affirmative action in my country, Colombia; which are deeply linked to the sacred right to equality and non-discrimination for racial, gender and other. Before I recall what was stated in the Durban World Conference against racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance, where explicit recognition of the urgency to address and take action on the part of States and Nations to make it possible to put an end to the plague of inequality and discrimination, through actions that will revindicate thousands and thousands of women and men placed on the platform of despair and denial of opportunity. In Colombia, prevails a block of constitutionality that collects and endorses the supranational norms that with criteria guarantees and makes all the legal and political landscape of international law of human rights reality. That is the source that supports Article 13 of the Political Constitution of Colombia that enables the enforcement of rights to equality and nondiscrimination. This article says "All people are born free and equal before the law and entitled to equal protection and treatment by the authorities and enjoy the same rights, freedoms and opportunities without any discrimination on grounds of sex, race, national origin or family , language, religion, political or philosophical opinion. The State shall promote conditions to make equality real and effective and shall adopt measures in favor of discriminated or marginalized groups. The State shall especially protect those who for their economic, physical or mental condition, are in obviously vulnerable circumstances and shall punish any abuses perpetrated against them. " Understanding the concept of Affirmative Action or positive actions, such as measures designed to promote and position specific people or groups, either to eliminate or reduce