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Contenido sensible

Este sitio contiene contenido sensible que incluye referencias a la violencia sexual.

País

Colombia

Puntuaciones
69.7/100
General
44.6/100
Governance and accountability
83.3/100
Prevention
75.0/100
Healing
74.5/100
Justice

América Latina y el Caribe

2nd

General

6th

Governance and accountability

1st

Prevention

2nd

Healing

2nd

Justice

Rango compartido — uno o más países tienen la misma puntuación.

Pathfinder

4th

General

17th

Governance and accountability

1st

Prevention

6th

Healing

3rd

Justice

Rango compartido — uno o más países tienen la misma puntuación.

EVAC Ministerial

5th

General

19th

Governance and accountability

1st

Prevention

6th

Healing

4th

Justice

Rango compartido — uno o más países tienen la misma puntuación.

Indicadores de contexto
GDP per capita
7913.99
Level of poverty
33.0
Gini coefficient
53.9
Rule of Law Index
0.48
Gender Inequality Index (GII)
0.39
Women in parliament
29.4
Gender gap in educational attainment
1.0
LGBTQ Equality Index
75.0
Birth registration
97.0
Internet penetration rate
77.34
Lead child protection ministries or agencies
3.0
Child marriage
23.0
Sexual violence
8.0
Online child sexual abuse
18.2
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Progress through data, policy, and investment

Colombia has demonstrated a strong commitment to ending sexual violence against children and adolescents. The country conducted a Violence Against Children Survey in 2018, used the data to identify key priority issues, and established a National Action Plan to respond. 

Colombia subsequently improved child safety laws, banned child marriage (2024), criminalized corporal punishment in all settings (2021), and eliminated statutes of limitations for childhood sexual violence (2021), establishing itself as a regional and global leader in the movement to end violence against children and adolescents. 

In November 2024, Colombia hosted the first Global Ministerial Conference on Ending Violence Against Children, bringing together Ministers of Health from 130 nations to make 120 novel commitments to protect and support children. This event was co-hosted together with the Government of Sweden, UNICEF, WHO and the UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence Against Children. It was the first time a high-level ministerial of this size convened delegates from around the globe, marking a new GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS™ title: Most countries represented at a childhood violence summit. This Break the record campaign was led by Together for Girls.

Colombia outranks all other countries in prevention by 5 points. The country also gained high scores within Governance and Accountability for having a National Action Plan for sexual violence against children, including online violence, but has lower scores in some areas of the pillar such as a lack of international treaties that have been ratified.

What remains: Closing the gaps in protectio

Leadership comes with responsibility. Closing these gaps will require action like:

  • Setting the legal age of sexual consent at 18 with a close in age exemption
  • Criminalizing the sexual exploitation of children
  • Ensuring laws criminalizing child sexual abuse by family members and people in positions of authority extend to a broad range of relationships/positions and settings
  • Strengthening statutes of limitation reform by closing remaining gaps—particularly by eliminating limitation periods for all related crimes such as child trafficking, and ensuring that Concordat agreements do not create barriers to accountability for clergy or restrict access to evidence—so that all perpetrators can be prosecuted equally under the law, in line with global best practice and as outlined in the Brave Movement Report Criminal Statues of Limitation in Latin America 2024. 
  • Put in place full extraterritoriality and extradition provisions for cross-border prosecution of sexual exploitation of children crimes
  • Explicitly criminalizing sexual exploitation of children
  • Clearly criminalizing all elements of trafficking of children for sexual exploitation
  • Establishing a national survivors’ council
  • Developing a national action plan to end sexual violence against children on and offline
  • Increasing parent support services

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