[{"bbox": [85, 151, 1145, 259], "category": "Text", "text": "Women's and LGBTI organisations and their role in articulating community support mechanisms is essential to facilitate the access of women, girls and the LGBTI population to protection and assistance services. Such **organisations require training and strengthening to promote protective environments** and improve their response capacities."}, {"bbox": [85, 269, 1145, 349], "category": "Text", "text": "Despite the advances in information and data, **the country does not have an integrated database on gender-based violence** articulated with a network of observatories at the national level. In addition, **institutions and organisations in the territory lack training and tools for data collection, analysis and dissemination of the information**."}, {"bbox": [85, 360, 1145, 440], "category": "Text", "text": "The historical situation of **violence against women and girls in Colombia persists** as a social problem, and has been aggravated by the conditions generated by the Covid 19 pandemic as well as the dynamics of armed violence and territorial control."}, {"bbox": [85, 453, 1145, 693], "category": "Text", "text": "During the first quarter of 2022, the National Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences (INML-CF) conducted 5,902 legal medical examinations for alleged **sexual crimes**, nationwide. Of the total number of examinations, 5,208 (88.24%) were performed on women and 694 (11.75%) on men, which implies that for every man allegedly assaulted, about 7 women were victims. In addition, **sexual violence mostly affects girls** and adolescents, since 6,908 (82.29%) of the total number of medico-legal examinations for alleged sexual crimes against women, were carried out on minors. This implies that, between January and June 2021, every 38 minutes a minor woman was a victim of alleged sexual crimes. Women are at risk of suffering this type of violence even in their immediate surroundings, as only 5.71% of the cases report an unknown aggressor; in contrast, in 44.61% of cases a family member committed the sexual crimes."}, {"bbox": [85, 704, 1145, 813], "category": "Text", "text": "**Feminicide** cases are also a major and persistent problem. The Criminal Investigation Directorate-DIJIN reported the occurrence of 127 cases of feminicide at the national level between 1 January and 31 August 2021. According to these figures, a woman was victim of feminicide every 34 hours. Within the different cases of feminicide, intimate feminicides stand out, which are those perpetrated by the partners or ex-partners of women."}, {"bbox": [85, 823, 1145, 876], "category": "Text", "text": "Between 1 January and 31 July 2021, 123 crimes against **freedom and sexual integrity** were reported in the context of the **armed conflict** and, in 109 cases, the victims were women, that is, 88.62% of the total."}, {"bbox": [85, 888, 1145, 997], "category": "Text", "text": "**Women and girls face specific challenges in migration contexts.** IOM studies on gender-based violence against migrant women globally show that the occurrence of acts of gender-based violence against women is recurrent. According to the study, 35% report acts of physical violence; 25% verbal violence; 11% psychological violence and 10% sexual violence, although it is estimated that unreported cases are significantly higher. (IOM, 2020)."}, {"bbox": [85, 1008, 1145, 1088], "category": "Text", "text": "In addition to this, in conflict affected areas with the presence of illegal armed groups and criminal gangs, migrants face situations of special vulnerability. Migrant boys and men are subjected to forced recruitment by armed groups, while women are exposed to multiple forms of sexual violence and sexual exploitation."}, {"bbox": [85, 1099, 1145, 1261], "category": "Text", "text": "**GBV also affects the LGBTI community.** According to the Ombudsman's Office, between 2020 and 2021, 98 people with diverse sexual orientation and gender identity were murdered and exposed to multiple manifestations of violence and discrimination. This violence was also accentuated during the pandemic. According to collectives that defend the rights of LGBTI people, in the first four months of 2021, 14 homicides against the LGBTI population were registered, with a particular strain on transfeminicide. Psychological, physical, police and sexual violence are the predominant typologies, in addition to attacks due to the exercise of leadership and human rights."}, {"bbox": [85, 1271, 1145, 1326], "category": "Text", "text": "**Identification of main stakeholders and corresponding institutional and/or organisational issues (mandates, potential roles, and capacities) to be covered by the action:**"}, {"bbox": [85, 1337, 1145, 1470], "category": "Text", "text": "One of the main actors in the National Gender Mechanism in the country is the **Presidential Council for Women's Equity - CPEM**, which has, among its functions, the design of policies, plans, programmes, projects and necessary provisions aimed at promoting gender equality and empowerment for women, as well as ensuring the coordination, consistency and coherence of these. Some implementation arrangements might be considered in the near future to respond to the new institutional framework that would result from the creation of the new Ministry of Equality."}, {"bbox": [85, 1481, 1145, 1643], "category": "Text", "text": "It is also important to mention the **Prosecutor's Office**, the **National Police**, the **Legal Medicine**, the **Ministry of Justice** and the **Ministry of Health and Social Protection**, for their specific competences in the fight to eliminate GBV, as well as all public entities involved in the GBV care and protection route, particularly the Integrated System of Information on Gender Violence to reinforce the Integrated database on gender-based violence (SIVIGE) with the aim to identify, understand and make visible the nature, magnitude, trends, risks and protective factors, as well as the consequences of gender violence."}, {"bbox": [1038, 1680, 1145, 1706], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 8 of 24"}]