EL TRABAJO SOCIAL EN LAS BRIGADAS JURÍDICAS DE LA CORPORACIÓN UNIVERSITARIA REPUBLICANA

rom the legal office of the Republican University Corporation, legal brigades are being carried out in different localities of Bogotá, where the approach to the communities has shown the need for interdisciplinarity with Social Work and the essential for the formation of citizens who think about collective projects and the construction of more equitable societies for all. In this space law students who belong to the Disability Convention of the legal office, provide legal advice in different locations discovering realities that need a transformation and that even belong to the reality of the adviser’s own environment, giving a new experience that takes them to think of a «want to change and help», forming more reflective, sensitive, understandable subjects that are aware of the differences between all people (in our case, people with disabilities, PcD). All this leads to the emergence of new questions and proposals to help, change or apply from their law career, where they are: laws, decrees, public policies and mainly the application of the «United Nations Con- vention on the Rights of people with disabilities «(2006) which was ratified by Colombia; it is struggling against pre-established models and common ways of seeing discouragement, which gave way to the social and legal limitations of PWD. In several nations in its historical line,models were used that allowed the exclusion, violation or limitation of the exercise of the right and the effective participation of PWD in conditions of equality with other members of society. Colombia has created public policies for PcD where its dignity and quality of human beings are recognized, historically it is based on the struggle that had been posed since the seventies in Europe and the United States to stop being considered second class citizens, disabled people, sick or mutilated. These campaigns and protests were aimed at allowing PWDs to form inclusive societies that accept the difference, respecting the human dignity of all people regardless of the «disability» they may have.