Jahel Quiroga Carrillo is a Colombian industrial engineer, human rights activist, and politician of the
Patriotic Union party (UP). She is a survivor of an extermination effort against members of the organization in the 1980s.
She has been a member of the
Senate of Colombia
The Senate of the Republic of Colombia ( es, Senado de la República de Colombia) is the upper house of the Congress of Colombia, with the lower house being the House of Representatives. The Senate has 108 members elected for concurrent (non-r ...
since July 2022.
Biography
Jahel Quiroga was born in
Chaparral, Tolima
Chaparral is a town and municipality in the Tolima department of Colombia
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.
She studied
industrial engineering
Industrial engineering is an engineering profession that is concerned with the optimization of complex process (engineering), processes, systems, or organizations by developing, improving and implementing integrated systems of people, money, kno ...
at
Francisco José de Caldas District University in Bogotá.
She was elected councilor of
Barrancabermeja in 1988. Jorge Orlando Higuita Rojas, her benchmate on the council, was assassinated in 1989.
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In 1993, Quiroga founded the ]non-governmental organization
A non-governmental organization (NGO) or non-governmental organisation (see spelling differences) is an organization that generally is formed independent from government. They are typically nonprofit entities, and many of them are active in h ...
Reiniciar together with Aída Avella
Aída Yolanda Avella Esquivel, or Aída Yolanda Abella Esquivel (born 23 January 1949), is a Colombian pedagogue, psychologist, and politician belonging to the Patriotic Union party. She was a member of the Constituent Assembly of Colombia and ...
and other surviving members of the UP, with the purpose of assisting victims of human rights violations and documenting the extermination of her political group.[ After receiving threats, she went into exile in Europe.][ That December, she took the UP's case to the ]Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (the IACHR or, in the three other official languages Spanish, French, and Portuguese CIDH, ''Comisión Interamericana de los Derechos Humanos'', ''Commission Interaméricaine des Droits de l'Homme'', ...
because judicial investigations were not advancing in Colombia.[
She has been part of the international board of directors of the World Organisation Against Torture, and is a member of its general assembly.][
In the 2022 parliamentary election, she was chosen ]senator
A senate is a deliberative assembly, often the upper house or chamber of a bicameral legislature. The name comes from the ancient Roman Senate (Latin: ''Senatus''), so-called as an assembly of the senior (Latin: ''senex'' meaning "the el ...
by the closed list
Closed list describes the variant of party-list systems where voters can effectively only vote for political parties as a whole; thus they have no influence on the party-supplied order in which party candidates are elected. If voters had some inf ...
of the political coalition known as the Historic Pact
The Historic Pact for Colombia ( es, Pacto Histórico por Colombia; PHxC) is a political and electoral coalition in Colombia composed of political parties and social movements with ideologies ranging from the centre-left, left-wing, and far-left ...
.[
]
References
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21st-century Colombian politicians
21st-century Colombian women politicians
Colombian human rights activists
Colombian industrial engineers
Colombian women activists
Colombian women engineers
Living people
Members of the Senate of Colombia
Patriotic Union (Colombia) politicians
People from Chaparral, Tolima
Year of birth missing (living people)
Francisco José de Caldas District University alumni