2. For Human Rights and General Amnesty

After the creation of the Committee and the first public charges, started a stage of demand for the liberty of political prisoners, termination of state of siege, and diminishment of the Security Statute. In addition, the committee annexed the proposal of a law for General Amnesty for those being held for political reasons. This initiative was approved by the Second Forum for Human Rights and was presented to the Senate by Dr. Gerardo Molina and to the House of Representatives by Dr. Gilberto Vieira, both members of the committee. This provoked a reaction from the Turbay government who officially presented a project of limited Amnesty, different from the project approved by the Forum. With pressure from the government however, it was approved as Law 37 of 1981. This law did not bring about liberty for political prisoners, as no one abode by it.
One year later President Belisario Betancur using elements of the project proposed by the Committee, officially presented a new project, which became Law 35 of 1982. More than 1500 people being held by the National Security Statute, which had been taken down by the new government, where set free.
During this time the Committee had the support of Representative Hernando Hurtado, executive secretary, who had his House of Representatives office become the seat of the Committee and made his assistants staff of the Permanent Committee.