00:00Jesuit priest Javier Giraldo Moreno, one of the most prominent human rights defenders, has died.
00:05Important figures in Colombia. He was 82 years old and died at San Ignacio Hospital in Bogotá.
00:11after suffering a fall and facing several health conditions. For more than five decades,
00:16Father Giraldo dedicated his life to listening to those who were rarely heard and accompanying them.
00:21to communities for whom justice always seemed distant. Giraldo studied philosophy and
00:26She studied theology at the Pontifical Javeriana University and specialized in regional analysis and equipment
00:30of space at the University of Paris I. However, his most important training took place in
00:35the territories, alongside the victims. For decades he was linked to the Research Center
00:41and Popular Education CINEP, from where he documented serious human rights violations. In 1988,
00:47He co-founded the Intercongregational Commission for Justice and Peace and later served as secretary for Latin America
00:52of the Permanent Peoples' Tribunal. Her work was crucial in clarifying the
00:56massacres in Trujillo, which occurred between 1986 and 1994, and to get the State to recognize its
01:03responsibility for the crimes committed against more than one hundred people.
01:07He also denounced the links between members of the Public Force and paramilitary structures.
01:11in the Magdalena Medio and Urabá regions, and has supported the San José Peace Community since its inception.
01:16from Apartadó. For that work, she received threats, endured stigmatization, and had to live
01:21periods of exile. Even so, he never abandoned the communities that placed their trust in him.
01:26testimonies and their trust. He received awards such as the John Humphrey Freedom Award and the
01:31Juan María Brandes Award for the defense of the right of asylum. He was also a member of the Historical Commission.
01:36of the conflict and its victims during the Havana peace talks. But his legacy goes much further
01:41Beyond the awards. It's in the archives he built to combat oblivion, in the victims who
01:46He accompanied her and persisted in pointing out responsibilities when doing so could cost him dearly.
01:51Life. Javier Giraldo made memory a form of resistance and of his religious vocation
01:55a radical commitment to the most vulnerable. His life was a long battle for the victims
02:00so that women from Colombia would not have to face silence and impunity alone.
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