ACRONYMS

ACHR: American Convention on Human Rights

CAJ-SC: Comisión Andina de Juristas-Seccional Colombiana (Andean Commission of Jurists-Colombian Section)

CINEP: Centro de Investigación y Educación Popular (Popular Research and Education Center)

COOSERCOM: The community police agency set up for ex-militias in Medellín

DANE: Departamento Administrativo Nacional de Estadísticas (National Statistics Department)

DAS: Departamento de Seguridad Administrativo (Department of Administrative Security)

DECYPOL: Departamento de Estudios Criminológicos e Identificación (Department of Criminological Studies and Identificación); the Medellín coroner's office

ELN: Ejército Nacional de Liberación (National Liberation Army)

F-2: National Police intelligence

FARC: Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia)

ICCPR: International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

ICVA: International Council of Voluntary Agencies

MENCOLDES: Mennonite Development Foundation

NN: no name

PEPES: People Persecuted by Pablo Escobar

SIJIN: Section of Judicial and Investigative Police

UNASE: Unidad Anti-Secuestro y Anti-Extorsión (Anti-Kidnapping and Anti-Extorsion Unit), an elite anti-kidnapping police squad

UNCRC: United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child

UNICEF: United Nations Children's Fund