For more than six decades Colombia has endured one the longest armed conflicts in the world. Land concentration and usurpation, severe social inequalities, and the geostrategic control of territories for drug smuggling, among others, continue to be the main reasons for the initiation and continuation of the conflict. The armed confrontation between different actors: the armed forces, paramilitaries, and guerrillas, and the impacts on civil society have produced grave human rights violations and violations of international humanitarian law, including sexual violence against women.
