Attorney forward actions to father triplets arhuaco fully enjoy their rights

In recent days the country has known the case of Luis Daniel Torres, a native arhuaco 20 years of age, who refuses to recognize two of her triplets on the grounds that in the cosmogony of the community having triplets is not well seen and this triple birth is due to infidelity of the mother of girls.

The director of the Colombian Family Welfare Institute (ICBF) stated that the indigenous community that owns the parent does not have the tradition of ignoring the twins, twins, triplets and / or triplets, and that therefore the Governor the receipt will arhuaco the father of the girls take responsibility for the three creatures.

However, the Attorney General's Office notes that as set out in the Code for Children and Adolescents, children and adolescents of indigenous peoples and other ethnic groups, without prejudice to the principles governing their culture and organization social, enjoy the rights enshrined in the Constitution and international instruments on human rights, why, regardless of the indigenous community whether or not within their traditions reject or accept these manifestations of nature, the truth is They can not ignore the indigenous infants their human rights.

The Convention on the Rights of the Child recognizes all children, regardless of race, color, sex, language, religion, ethnic or social origin, economic status or other status of these, the right to an identity ( Article 8), which includes the right to a name, nationality and affiliation, in which case the triplets must be granted this right despite the beliefs of the parent.

Under this, the Attorney General's Office, through for the Defense of the Rights of the Child, Youth and Family will boost all necessary actions for the three girls and the mother have of their rights guaranteed by the ICBF, while the Indian authorities in the exercise of autonomy that the Constitution grants them, take steps to ensure that the young father arhuaco appropriate to recognize their three daughters, otherwise proceed to deploy most appropriate actions in order to protect the interests of girls, as stated in article 8 of Law 1098 of 2006.