E/CN.4/2004/18/Add.3 page 17 ensure their effective participation in institutions responsible for community affairs, such as the Advisory Commission on Afro-Colombian Populations and the Inter-Institutional Commission on the Human Rights of the Indigenous Populations. Notes 1 Estimate provided by the National Department of Statistics (Departamento Administrativo Nacional de Estadísticas (DANE)). 2 Act No. 812 of 2003 approving the National Development Plan for the period 2003-2006, “Towards a community-based State”. 3 CONPES document No. 3238 of 2003, on a strategy for departmental strengthening, delegates to departments, through the planning offices, the registry of organizations, community councils and organizations of Afro-Colombian communities and the resolution of conflicts arising from collective ownership. 4 CONPES No. 3180 of 2002: “Programme for the reconstruction and sustainable development of the Antioquian and Chocoan Urabá and Bajo and Medio Atrato”. 5 On 2 May 2002, 119 persons died in Bojayá, in the department of Chocó, when an explosive device launched by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-People’s Army (FARC-EP) exploded in the church where part of the population had taken refuge (see the report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the situation of human rights in Colombia, 24 February 2003, E/CN.4/2003/13, para. 57). 6 Population and Housing Register (pilot census), Department of the Archipelago of San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina, May 1999. 7 According to the document entitled “Defence policy and democratic security”, published in 2003 by the Ministry of Defence and the Office of the President of the Republic, the policy of “democratic security” may be defined as a plan to “strengthen and guarantee the rule of law throughout the territory through the strengthening of the democratic authority, and guarantee the safety of citizens. It also aims to enable the State to regain complete control over the territory, defeat terrorism and involve the civilian population in the security process, particularly by cooperating with and supporting the authorities and military forces”. 8 9 Information provided by the Colombian Commission of Jurists. Figures supplied by the Government. Afro-Colombian organizations estimate that Afro-Colombians account for between 45 and 50 per cent of displaced persons.