PAGE 2: We achieved the recognition of the voice of minors who have been victim-survivors of sexual violence, thanks to the judgments T843-201, T351-2021 and T595-2013, obtained by us at SISMA Mujer through our litigation. [...] The third, besides recognising the rights of an Afro-Colombian girl who was a victim to sexual violence, it emphasises the importance of applying an intersectional approach (in the case of the girl, to acknowledge disability and forced displacement) to provide a holistic response to victim-survivors of GBV. [...] For example, with judgment T418-2015, we succeeded in having the court recognise the harm perpetrated against al the women who sufered sexual violence during the massacre of El Salado – one of the most atrocious and remembered massacres in the country. [...] To this day, this is a crucial judgment in support of the rights of migrants, and migrant women more specificaly – especialy in the context of the displacement and migration of Venezuelan people. [...] The Constitutional Court recognised the rights of a minor, and those of her mother, to form a family and acknowledged the role of institutional violence in the suicide of a young LGBTQI+ person.
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