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The Effort and Task of Latin America’s Government to Improve Inequality of Forced Displaced Persons: From the Cartagena Declaration to the Plan de Acción de Brazil

Cha-kyung Mi 1

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ABSTRACT

The civil war, which spread across Central America in the 1970s and 1980s, led to the expansion of forced displaced persons, so Latin America faced various problems. And so, the local countries adopted the Declaration at the Summit of the Organization of American States held in Cartagena, the Caribbean coastal city in Colombia. The Cartagena Declaration extended the range of existing refugees and defined even victims from civil wars or massive human rights violations as refugees. After this, the Latin American local government established the San Jose Declaration in 1994 and the Mexico Declaration and Plan de Acción in 2004 to establish policy efforts for the continuously growing forced displaced persons. In Latin America, the forced displaced people were growing constantly due to armed conflict over drug terrorism, economic and political crises, and conflict over the development of mines and the Amazon since 2000. The forced displaced people were mainly from the area of indigenous people and African-ethnic groups. In considering this, the issue of forced displacement is thought to be the result of the structural inequality in the Latin American society in which various conditions overlapped. On the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the Cartagena Declaration in December 2014, the governments of 31 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean discussed the cooperation schemes regarding the refugees and forced displaced persons with an assessment of the Declaration’s implementation. And they adopted the Plan de Acción de Brazil for the next decade under the goal of mitigating stateless persons. This study examined the efforts and future tasks of the Latin American local government to improve the inequality of forced displaced people based on the building process of the Plan de Acción de Brazil from the Cartagena Declaration.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.