A/HRC/31/3/Add.2 64. Internally displaced persons represent the largest group of registered victims: 6,897,450 persons. In 2015, 76,017 new displaced persons were registered. This represents an enormous challenge for providing support and reparation, requiring action in isolated zones where displacement is recurrent, such as the Pacific coast and Antioquia, and special protection for indigenous and Afro-Colombian communities. 2. Transformative reparations 65. The greatest number of awards of individual compensation was paid to victims in Medellín, Bogotá, Apartadó, Bello, Cúcuta, Villavicencio and Cali. In some cities, complementary transformative and non-recurrence measures were implemented. In rural zones and other cities, compensation lost its transformative potential due to the relatively low level of human rights enjoyment and the inaction, inadequate budgets, technical capacity or political will of local authorities. 66. OHCHR-Colombia continued to advise and support UARIV, whose enormous efforts merit recognition. However, the mandate, work and achievements of UARIV alone cannot replace a coordinated State effort to improve the enjoyment of economic, social and cultural rights in marginalized zones. As UARIV has insisted, with inadequate response from other entities, complementarity between reparation processes and development action is necessary. The Victims and Land Reparation Law has been applied for four years in municipalities such as Tumaco, Nariño; Buenaventura, Valle del Cauca; Turbo, Antioquia; and Riosucio, Chocó. Yet communities and victims continue to suffer profound vulnerability for structural and historical reasons. Weak fiscal and political controls over resource implementation compound this. 67. OHCHR-Colombia observed that, despite State efforts, the collective reparation regime has not achieved its principal objectives of repairing collective damages; providing means to transform inequality, violence, stigmatization, mistrust and pain; ensuring opportunities to reconstruct memory, the social fabric and identity; and ensuring nonrecurrence in affected communities. OHCHR-Colombia also observed difficulties in coordinating the collective reparation of territorial rights with other collective AfroColombian and indigenous peoples’ rights. Of 153 ethnic communities owed collective reparation, only 24 are at the stage of prior consultation. 68. OHCHR-Colombia advised the Government on reconceptualizing State responses through improved national-local coordination and coherence among development plans; basic provision of services related to the rights to, among others, health and education; and victim support and reparation. It is important to build trust, capacity and local community participation to create required social and economic transformations. 3. Land restitution 69. At year’s end, the Land Restitution Unit reported having received 87,119 requests for inclusion in the land-theft register, of which 42,325 (49 per cent) were being responded to in “micro-focus” zones where the Ministry of Defence had authorized the initiation of the processes. A total of 30,593 applications (35 per cent) have been finalized; 11,374 (13 per cent) are being processed by the judicial authorities and rulings have been issued in 3,160 cases (4 per cent) relating to 20,000 people. A total of 51 per cent of claims are outside these micro-focus zones and have not advanced, given State difficulties in ensuring adequate security conditions for its personnel and for victims. Partial implementation of restitution claims has led to frustrated expectations on the part of claimants. In November, the Constitutional Court ordered the Government to develop a plan, within six months, to respond to all claims by 2021, the end date for the process. 13

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