On the occasion of the commemoration of National Day of Human Rights, the Eighth Brigade and all tactical units organized different events in each of the units.
In the city of Armenia Quindio, and repeated the Week for Peace organized by the Departmental Committee for Peace the Army held in the Auditorium of the Café of the Eighth Brigade the conference "Consolidation and Respect for Human Rights, with attendance from the Government Secretary, Dr. JJ Dominguez and Dr. Exhibitors Julio Cesar Trejos, Gran Colombia University professor, specialist in human rights, then continued to mine the information by the battalion of engineers no.8 "Francisco Javier Cisneros" and closed the event, Dr. Cesar Augusto Ramirez Cuartas, University Professor von Humboldt and advisor to the Ombudsman.
The event was attended by representatives of the department of social ministry, staff, Secretary of the Interior and development and various members of civil institutions and security ecclesiastical control of the department of Quindio.
This with the aim to strengthen in men and women of the force a culture of respect for human rights and their proper application as the basis for the consolidation of institutional legitimacy, as well as to place the Eighth Brigade as an elite unit institutional level that respects the law and Human Rights.