People with Disabilities and their Legal Protection in a Time of Pandemic in Colombia

Abstract

This article presents an analysis, from a legal perspective, of the protection status of persons with disabilities in Colombia based on the declaration of the State of Economic, Social and Ecological Emergency in the national territory in the face of the spread of Covid-19, generating recommendations that ensure legal protection in the Colombian territory. The development of the article lays out the situation of people with disabilities during the pandemic, what are the legal protection measures ordered by the government and what recommendations emerge as relevant for effective legal protection. The proposed approach is based on a dogmatic methodology of the basic-legal type, since the object of study is constituted by the Colombian regulations on disability that arises from the declaration of Emergency in national territory, using secondary sources of research, analyzing the law and doctrine applicable to the object of study. With the aforementioned, it will be shown that in times of pandemic the Colombian State has tried to adjust to the UN guidelines, aiming to maintain the guarantee of rights in an equitable and fair manner, however, some precise recommendations are made, which are pertinent in the context of the current guarantees discourse.