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The Peace Agreement in Colombia in the Light of International Law*Peace Agreement • October 19th, 2020
After a half-century of armed conflict between the government of Colombia and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia – the People’s Army (FARC-EP), the signing of the 2016 peace agreement helped put an end to internal fighting and encouraged a stable peace. However, this agreement created a new challenge: that of respecting the principle of equality before the law. This article proposes a framework to help address the difficult choice between the right to peace and the right to equality before the law by considering international human rights standards. The text suggests the use of constitutional and conventional judicial reviews as the two best judicial remedies for verifying the compatibility of domestic law with international principles of human rights. Based on the principle of supremacy of the imperative international law, these judicial reviews can be used to analyze the validity of a national rule that contravenes an international human rights standard. Considering these too
