Challenges in Guaranteeing the Right to Adequate Nutrition for Displaced Afro-descendant Women, Cisgender Women and LGBTI Individuals in Colombia

Abstract

Background: Although food issues affect all populations, they deserve to be the subject of academic reflections that give special attention to vulnerable social groups. This article aimed to identify the challenges involved in guarantee­ing the right to adequate nutrition in Afro-descendant women victims of internal displacement, cisgender women, and LGBTI people. Reflection: Discrimination based on gender, ethnicity, or some other condition has a direct impact on food security, and it puts the effective fulfillment of adequate nutrition as a fundamental right at a disadvantage. This exposes the need of demanding from the State affirmative actions that promote effective equality among minority population groups. Conclusion: The main challenges identified are related to the need to strengthen the legal frame­work to the right to adequate nutrition, and to understand it as a right in itself. Besides, to promote social mobilization as a mechanism to demand recognition, respect, and protection from the State, and to progressively modify the socio-economic conditions of people, in a scenario where the capacity of capital accumulation leads them to materialize their well-being in a differentiated way, according to social class, gender or ethnicity.