A/HRC/16/45/Add.1 Annex Report of the independent expert on minority issues on her mission to Colombia (1-12 February 2010) Contents Page I. Introduction............................................................................................................. 1–2 3 II. Overview................................................................................................................. 3–5 3 III. Legal framework and enforcement mechanisms ..................................................... 6–15 4 IV. Discrimination and poverty..................................................................................... 16–32 5 A. Discrimination and racism .............................................................................. 16–21 5 B. Afro-Colombians’ disproportionate experience of poverty ............................ 22–27 7 C. Responses of the Government to discrimination and poverty......................... 28–32 8 Violence and displacement...................................................................................... 33–66 9 A. Disproportionate displacement of Afro-Colombians ...................................... 33–43 9 B. Afro-Colombian women’s experience of violence and displacement............. 44–47 11 C. Responses of the Government to violence and displacement ......................... 48–51 12 D. Responses of security forces........................................................................... 52–53 13 E. The Office of the Ombudsman ....................................................................... 54–56 13 F. Transitional justice, reparations and restitution .............................................. 57–62 14 G. Findings of the Constitutional Court............................................................... 63–66 15 VI. Dispossession of Afro-Colombian lands ................................................................. 67–70 16 VII. The right to consultation and participation in decision-making .............................. 71–83 17 A. Political participation...................................................................................... 71–73 17 B. Community Councils ...................................................................................... 74–77 17 C. The right to free, prior and informed consultation and consent ...................... 78–83 18 Conclusions and recommendations ......................................................................... 84–101 19 V. VIII. 2 Paragraphs