A/HRC/31/3/Add.2 7. Between June and December 2015, the parties announced agreements to create an integrated truth, justice, reparation and non-recurrence system, composed of an independent and non-judicial commission on the clarification of truth, coexistence and non-repetition; a special unit for locating persons disappeared in the armed conflict; and a special jurisdiction for peace. The parties also agreed upon measures on comprehensive reparation and nonrecurrence of violations and emphasized the human rights obligations of the State. 8. The scope of the integrated system offers a unique opportunity to address victims’ rights. OHCHR-Colombia advises the State on overcoming the considerable implementation challenges, including with respect to budgetary issues, financial support mechanisms, operational management and coordination and deployment processes that promote victims’ rights.1 Transparent processes for selecting members and an effective administrative system are essential for the system’s credibility and legitimacy. Coordination and cooperation mechanisms, including those to ensure constructive relationships with institutions dealing with victims and the judiciary, require definition. A clear system of incentives and guarantees to maximize participation by State actors, FARC-EP and third parties is necessary. The situation observed by OHCHR-Colombia highlights the urgent need for an independent protection mechanism for military and police members wishing to contribute to truth and justice. 9. The High Commissioner recognizes the value of the report — a contribution to the understanding of the armed conflict in Colombia — published in February 2015 by the Historical Commission on the Conflict and its Victims at the request of the negotiating parties in Havana. Future historical clarification processes should further include the perspectives of women, indigenous peoples and Afro-Colombians. 10. OHCHR-Colombia provides advisory assistance to facilitate the reflection of varied and ethnically distinct local realities in any truth clarification and recognition of responsibilities undertaken through a future truth commission. The mandate of the proposed commission includes the promotion of social reconciliation; it should also provide a common understanding of the magnitude and causes of violations committed in a context marked by polarization, violence and exclusion. The commission could be invaluable for confronting the denial that has characterized patterns of human rights violations. 11. The agreement on persons reported disappeared or missing provides for immediate measures such as the provision by the parties of information to accelerate location processes. OHCHR-Colombia is advising the Government on the creation of the special location unit envisioned in the agreements, with the participation of victims’ and human rights organizations and the support of specialized institutions. In December 2015 in Villavicencio, the Attorney General’s Office returned the remains of 29 previously unidentified persons, buried in four cemeteries in Meta and Guaviare, to their families. 12. OHCHR-Colombia provides the Government with advice on overcoming the challenges posed by the multiple and dissimilar registries of disappeared persons, which hamper the measurement of the phenomenon’s magnitude. The registry of the Attorney General’s Office includes 70,000 disappeared persons; the National Registry of the Disappeared includes 19,855 men and 2,511 women; and that of the Comprehensive Victim Support and Reparation Unit (UARIV) includes 45,515 persons. The National Registry of the Disappeared recorded 5,482 disappearances between January and November 2015, of 1 4 Given its mandate, the resources necessary for the future truth commission in Colombia are likely to exceed those that were invested, for example, in South Africa, whose commission had a staff of 400 and an annual budget of US$18 million in its first years; in Peru, whose commission, with a less ambitious mandate, had a staff of 500 and a biannual budget of over US$13 million; or in Guatemala, where the commission had a staff of 200 and a total outlay of US$10 million over two years.