Abstract

LOPEZ PACHECO, Jairo Antonio. Social accountability, non governmental human rights organizations and political conflict in Colombia, 2002-2010. Rev. Mex. Sociol [online]. 2013, vol.75, n.2, pp.255-286. ISSN 2594-0651.

This paper analyzes the political process that occurred in Colombia with the mobilization of the most important nongovernmental human rights organizations and their opposition to the Álvaro Uribe government (2002-2010). The author argues that this process generated a political conflict that created social accountability mechanisms defending the basic principles of the rule of law and human rights and exercising political control.

Keywords : social accountability; human rights; nongovernmental organizations; Colombia.