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49,747 of January 6, 2016 CONGRESS OF THE REPUBLIC By means of which article 116A is created, articles 68A, 104, 113, 359, and 374 of Law 599 of 2000 are modified and article 351 of Law 906 of 2004 is modified.

THE COLOMBIAN CONGRESS DECREES: ARTICLE 1.

Add article 116A to Law 599 of 2000, as follows: Article.

116A.

Injuries with chemical agents, acid and/or similar substances.
Whoever causes damage to the body or health of another, using for this purpose any type of chemical agent, alkali, similar or corrosive substances that generate destruction when coming into contact with human tissue, will incur a prison sentence of one hundred and fifty ( 150) months to two hundred and forty (240) months and a fine of one hundred and twenty (120) to two hundred and fifty (250) current legal monthly minimum wages.
When the conduct causes deformity or permanent damage, partial or total, functional or anatomical loss, the penalty will be two hundred and fifty-one (251) months to three hundred and sixty (360) months in prison and a fine of one thousand (1,000) to three thousand ( 3,000) current legal monthly minimum wages.
Geeta Documentary Appendix : Additional Evidence – Inquiry into Rights of Women and Children 22 Dec 2022 Inquiry into the rights of women and childrenSubmission 3 If the deformity affects the face, the penalty will be increased by up to one third.

PARAGRAPH.

<UNENFORCEABLE paragraph> Jurisprudence Validity Previous Legislation PARAGRAPH 2.

The attempt in this crime will be governed by article 27 of this code.

Jurisprudence Validity ARTICLE 2.


Eliminate the third paragraph of article 113 of Law 599 of 2000.

ARTICLE 3.

Modify article 358 of Law 599 of 2000, which will read as follows: Article 358.

Possession, manufacture and trafficking of dangerous substances or objects.
Whoever illegally imports, introduces, exports, manufactures, acquires, has in his possession, supplies, traffics, transports or eliminates a hazardous, radioactive or nuclear substance, waste or residue; or acids, alkalis, similar or corrosive substances that generate destruction when in contact with human tissue; considered as such by international treaties ratified by Colombia or current provisions, will incur a prison term of forty-eight (48) to one hundred and forty-four (144) months and a fine of one hundred thirty-three point thirty-three (133.33) to thirty thousand ( 30,000) current legal monthly minimum wages.
The penalty indicated in the previous paragraph will be increased by half, when as a consequence of some of the described behaviors there is a release of nuclear energy, radioactive elements or pathogenic germs that endanger the life or health of people or their property.

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ARTICLE 4th.

Modify the second paragraph of article 68A of Law 599 of 2000, which will read as follows: “Article 68A.

Exclusion of criminal benefits and subrogated.


The conditional suspension of the execution of the penalty will not be granted; house arrest as a substitute for prison; nor will there be any other benefit, judicial or administrative, except for collaboration benefits regulated by law, as long as it is effective, when the person has been convicted of an intentional crime within the previous five (5) years.
Geeta Documentary Appendix : Additional Evidence – Inquiry into Rights of Women and Children 22 Dec 2022 Inquiry into the rights of women and childrenSubmission 3 Nor are those who have been convicted of fraudulent crimes against the Public Administration; crimes against persons and property protected by International Humanitarian Law; crimes against freedom, integrity and sexual formation; fraud and breach of trust that fall on State assets; massive and habitual collection of money; misuse of privileged information; conspiracy to commit an aggravated crime; money laundering; foreign bribery; domestic violence; qualified theft; extortion; aggravated homicide contemplated in numeral 6 of article 104; injuries caused by chemical agents, acid and/or similar substances; unlawful breach of communications; unlawful violation of communications or correspondence of an official nature; human trafficking; apology for genocide; personal injury due to anatomical or functional loss of an organ or member; forced displacement; migrant smuggling; front man; illicit enrichment of individuals; seizure of hydrocarbons, their derivatives, biofuels or mixtures that contain them; receiving; incitement to commit a crime; use or release of dangerous substances or objects; manufacture, import, trafficking, possession or use of chemical, biological and nuclear weapons; crimes related to drug trafficking and other offences; espionage; rebellion; and forced displacement; usurpation of real estate, counterfeiting of national or foreign currency; fictitious export or import; tax evasion; refusal of reimbursement; aggravated contraband; smuggling of hydrocarbons and their derivatives; aid and abetment to the employment, production and transfer of antipersonnel mines.
The provisions of this article shall not apply with respect to the substitution of preventive detention and the substitution of the execution of the sentence in the events contemplated in numerals 2, 3, 4 and 5 of article 314 of Law 906 of 2004.

PARAGRAPH 1.

The provisions of this article shall not apply to the probation contemplated in article 64 of this Code, nor to the provisions of article 38G of this Code.

PARAGRAPH 2.
PARAGRAPH 2.

The provisions of the first paragraph of this article shall not apply with respect to the suspension of the execution of the sentence, when the personal, social and family history is indicative that there is no possibility of the execution of the sentence...).

ARTICLE 5.

ACCESS TO THE FILE BY THE VICTIM AND HIS ATTENDING PHYSICIAN.
The National Institute of Legal Medicine will immediately provide all the information required by the treating physician for victims of attacks with chemical agents, acids, alkalis, similar or corrosive substances that cause destruction when in contact with human tissue, which is necessary to establish the medical procedure to follow and thus prevent the damage from being even more serious.

ARTICLE 6.
ARTICLE 6.

The duration of the sentence for the crime typified in the first article of this law, added to the aggravating circumstances provided for in article 119 of the Penal Code, shall be adjusted to the provisions of article 37 of the Penal Code.

ARTICLE 7th.
ARTICLE 7th.

The National Government, through the Ministry of Health, will formulate a public policy for comprehensive care for acid victims within six months from the issuance of this Law, guaranteeing access to comprehensive medical and psychological care.

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VALIDITY.
VALIDITY.

This law is effective as of its publication and repeals all provisions that are contrary to it.

The President of the honorable Senate of the Republic, LUIS FERNANDO VELASCO CHAVES.

The Secretary General of the honorable Senate of the Republic, GREGORY ELJACH PACHECO.

The Speaker of the honorable House of Representatives, ALFREDO RAFAEL DELUQUE ZULETA.

The Secretary General of the honorable House of Representatives, JORGE HUMBERTO MANTILLA SERRANO.
REPUBLIC OF COLOMBIA-NATIONAL GOVERNMENT Publish and comply.

Given in Bogotá, D. C., on January 6, 2016.

JUAN MANUEL SANTOS CALDERON The Vice Minister for the Promotion of Justice of the Ministry of Justice and Law, in charge of the functions of the Office of the Minister of Justice and Law, ANA MARIA RAMOS SERRANO.
Geeta Documentary Appendix : Additional Evidence – Inquiry into Rights of Women and Children 22 Dec 2022 Inquiry into the rights of women and childrenSubmission 3 GEETA APPENDIX: ADDITION TWO TRANSLATION of Public Policy for Women and Gender Equity Baseline - City diagnosis Bogota Global PAGE 1 Public Policy for Women and Gender Equity Baseline - City diagnosis Bogota Global PAGE 2 PPMyEG - Baseline - City diagnosis global bogota © District Secretariat for Women, 2022 Claudia Nayibe López Hernández MAYOR OF BOGOTÁ Diana Rodriguez Franco DISTRICT SECRETARY FOR WOMEN Diana Parra Romero UNDERSECRETARY OF CARE AND EQUALITY POLICIES Angie Mesa Rojas DIRECTOR OF KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT Martha Patricia Jimenez R. ELABORATION Oriana La Rotta Amaya Jose Edwin Bernal Bello Adriana Duran Riano RESEARCH GROUP - OMEG Adriana Rodriguez Castillo Diana Garcia Karol Enciso Margarita Rosa Medina Vargas Nicolas Ramirez Vargas Viviana Bohorquez Monsalve SURVEY GROUP PROYECTAMOS S.A.S Andrea Isaacs Coral DESIGN AND LAYOUT Women's Observatory and Gender Equity of Bogotá (OMEG) Knowledge Management Department District Secretariat for Women Telephone: (571) 316 90 01 El Dorado Avenue, 26th Street No.
69 - 76 Element Building, tower 1, 9th floor, www.sdmujer.gov.co Geeta Documentary Appendix : Additional Evidence – Inquiry into Rights of Women and Children 22 Dec 2022 Inquiry into the rights of women and childrenSubmission 3 PAGE 19 Psychological violence Percentage of women who declare having suffered violence according to type and percentages according to frequency in the last two years and the aggressor Received humiliating phrases 25.4 Threats with weapons or attack with chemical agent – 15.6% Impediment to meet with friends or with your family – 8.6% Request for images or videos intimates and threatens to publish in social networks 1.9% Among those who stated that they had suffered some act of psychological violence: Frequency in the last two years (clockwise diagram) More than three times – 19.3% No time in the last two years – 51.9% Two or three times – 12% Once – 16.8% PAGE 20 Aggressor (among those who were once victims) Received humiliating phrases (the last time) Ex-Partner 31.3% Current Partner – 22.1% Mother or Father – 20.5% Another person or relative - 9% Boss – 8.6% Daughter/Step-0Daughter – 4.3% Other Persons – 17.7% Threatened with weapons or attack with chemical agent Thief or offender – 63.4% Ex-Partner 13.6% Current Partner – 3.7% Other Persons – 20% No Information – 0.6% Geeta Documentary Appendix : Additional Evidence – Inquiry into Rights of Women and Children 22 Dec 2022 Inquiry into the rights of women and childrenSubmission 3 Impediment to meet with friends or with your family Ex partner 43.8% Current partner 35.9% Daughter/stepdaughter 5.8% Mother or father 5.1% Others 8.2% No information 3.5% Request for images or videos intimates and threatens to publish in social networks Friend or friend of a friend 25.5% Ex partner 23.0% Another person and/or his relative 7.7% Others 45.2% The highest number of women who declared: • • • • Having received humiliating sentences (you are useless, you never do nothing well, you are a brute) is found in La Candelaria (42.9% of the total women in
 that locality), followed by Puente Aranda (34.6%) Threats with weapons or attack with a chemical agent, in La Candelaria (27.1%), followed by San Cristóbal (23.8%) Impediment to meet friends or family, in Engativá (13.0%), followed by Santa Fe and Usme (11.9% in both) Request for intimate images or videos and threaten to post on social media, in Teusaquillo (6.4%), followed by Los Mártires (4.5%) Geeta Documentary Appendix : Additional Evidence – Inquiry into Rights of Women and Children 22 Dec 2022 Inquiry into the rights of women and childrenSubmission 3 Geeta Documentary Appendix : Additional Evidence – Inquiry into Rights of Women and Children 22 Dec 2022 Inquiry into the rights of women and childrenSubmission 3 Geeta Documentary Appendix : Additional Evidence – Inquiry into Rights of Women and Children 22 Dec 2022 Inquiry into the rights of women and childrenSubmission 3 Geeta Documentary Appendix : Additional Evidence – Inquiry into Rights of Women and Children 22 Dec 2022 Inquiry into the rights of women and childrenSubmission 3 Geeta Documentary Appendix : Additional Evidence – Inquiry into Rights of Women and Children 22 Dec 2022 Inquiry into the rights of women and childrenSubmission 3