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A collective of ESCR-Net members and allied organizations filed a written submission in response to Argentina’s request for an advisory opinion on the right to care made to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR). The prospective advisory opinion represents a groundbreaking opportunity for an international human rights court to recognize the right to care, which implies the recognition of care work as the work that sustains life in all its facets and the proper functioning of society.

The decades-long armed conflict in Colombia has resulted in numerous deaths, injuries, and broader trauma and irreversible alteration of the fabric of Colombian society. One of the most affected populations in this conflict has been that of the people who have seen themselves forcibly displaced to flee violence and conflict-induced poverty. In 2004, the Constitutional Court of Colombia officially recognized the disproportionate impact of violations flowing from the conflict on displaced persons by declaring, through case T-025, an unconstitutional state of affairs in Colombia in regards to the displaced population.