The Government of Colombia has made official its withdrawal from the Equal Rights Coalition (ERC), an international bloc composed of 45 nations working together to promote and protect the rights of the LGBTI community. The decision, communicated through a letter from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, ends the co-chairmanship that the country held alongside Spain since the end of 2024.<\/p>\n\n
The measure has generated immediate reactions in the social sector. The organization Caribe Afirmativo has questioned the premature departure from the country, pointing out that Colombia’s mandate in the coalition was valid until December 2027. Given this scenario, the collective has demanded a formal clarification from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs regarding the reasons that led to abandoning this space for diplomacy and international cooperation.<\/p>\n\n
From the central administration, the Vice Minister of Migratory Affairs, Consular Affairs, and International Protection, Pedro Agust\u00edn Roa, has underscored that this determination does not represent a setback in the protection of the rights of the LGTBI population in Colombian territory. According to the Executive branch, the withdrawal is part of a process of reevaluation and prioritization of foreign policy, where participation in this coalition is no longer considered a strategic priority.<\/p>\n\n\n
The rights of LGBTIQ+ people must be State commitments that transcend changes in administration and not depend on the agendas of each government in power.<\/p>\nCaribe Afirmativo Organization<\/cite>\n\n\n For its part, Caribe Afirmativo has stated that, after consultations with official sources, they were informed that the decision was motivated by the perception that remaining in the ERC was a legacy of the previous government’s administration. This stance has raised alarms about the future of the Feminist Foreign Policy and the continuity of equality agendas for the coming years.<\/p>\n\n The controversy adds to previous debates regarding President Abelardo de la Espriella’s vision on civil rights. During his campaign, the president expressed conservative positions on the traditional family and spoke out against adoption by same-sex couples, which has kept civil organizations in a state of constant alert regarding potential changes to the country’s inclusion policies.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Colombia withdraws from the Equal Rights Coalition The Government of Colombia has made official its withdrawal from the Equal Rights Coalition (ERC), an international bloc composed of 45 nations working together to promote and protect the rights of the LGBTI community. The decision, communicated through a letter from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, ends the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":162349,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12809],"tags":[6747,16119,16118,2658],"class_list":{"0":"post-162348","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-national","8":"tag-colombia","9":"tag-lgbtq","10":"tag-ministry-of-foreign-affairs","11":"tag-rights"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Political context regarding equality<\/h3>\n\n