LA PROTESTA SOCIAL PACÍFICA, DESDE LA PERSPECTIVA DE LA PROTECCIÓN DE LOS DERECHOS HUMANOS EN EL DEPARTAMENTO DE BOYACÁ.

Protecting human rights and dignity as an essential core requires a more significant commitment from the State and society in general. It is not enough to recognize them, but it is a priority to generate effective protection rules and mechanisms that allow them to be exercised responsibly and obtain immediate protection when infringed. However, despite being recognized as a human and fundamental right in the Colombian legal system, the authorities on different levels, the public force, and civil society have often ignored the right to peaceful social protest. In addition, peaceful protesters are subject to stigmatization since those who exercise it are considered without proof as guerrillas, mamertos, vandals, and other pejorative adjectives, being victims of physical, psychological, and even sexual violence. Therefore, it is essential to examine this situation from a legal, social, and ethical perspective with different sectors such as the Academy, civil society, legal operators, the Congress of the Republic, the National Government, the Departments, and Municipalities, among others, to determine which are the procedures that regulate peaceful social protest in Colombia in order to nurture the legal system, strengthen the process and materialize justice. We intend to provide a legal analysis as input for debate and construction. The investigation conclusions will be shared in the light of social protests, human rights, and the process. We will first define: What we understand by human rights and social protest. In second place, we will analyze the procedures established in the Colombian legal system that regulates peaceful social protest. Additionally, we will expose the role of the Department of Boyacá in the framework of peaceful social protests and the protocols used. Finally, a series of contributions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]