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For the Public Ministry, marriages between adolescents or between adolescents and adults are part of the forms of gender violence, contribute to school dropouts, and perpetuate inequalities between men and women.
At the hearing in which Bill 118 of 2020 was discussed in the First Committee of the Senate, the control body called for promote actions to combat early unions due to the harmful effects on the physical and mental health of minors, reported in a statement.
He emphasized that The Attorney General’s Office is in favor of the elimination of the power granted by the legislator to minors get marry.
The Public Ministry demanded public policies so that children take advantage of each stage of their age and can form in all their dimensions as human beings “without the burden of marriage affecting their development.”
He also warned that the legal possibility of marriage of minors with parental authorization can disguise cases of sexual exploitation.
“Achieving the elimination of these infringing human rights norms in our legislation does not solve the root problem and we understand that the legal system by itself does not transform realities and because it does not exist, we are going to prevent early unions, but it would be the beginning of a great work that we must undertake for comprehensively protecting children and adolescents in Colombia”, Insisted the control entity.
He assured that it is the duty of the State to protect children and adolescents from “a practice that puts life projects at stake and that hides many human rights violations”.
The Attorney General’s Office said that it will monitor the legislative process of the project that Attorney Fernando Carrillo Flórez signed on July 20 and that was filed by Senator Honorio Henríquez, and will monitor the implementation of the policies that the national Government and administrations must establish. territorial to eradicate this practice.
On September 10, the Office of the Attorney General led the discussion entitled ‘The duty to protect children from early marriages and unions’, which called on congressmen, civil society, academia, the ICBF, the ministries of Education and Health and Social Protection, the Presidential Council for Children and Adolescents and international cooperation organizations such as UNICEF and UN Women, to strengthen actions to protect children and adolescents.
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