Number of Colombians displaced by violence fell by almost a third in 2013
The number of people displaced by Colombia’s armed conflict fell by 32% from 2012 to 2013,...
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Displacement of persons is ‘explicit policy’ of FARC: Report
Colombia’s largest and oldest rebel group FARC systematically engages in displacing people from...
Displacement rife on Colombia’s Pacific coast: Report
More than 36% of all forced displacement cases in Colombia take place on the Pacific coast,...
Colombia has highest level of internal displacement in the world: Study
Colombia has the highest level of internal displacement in the world, according to latest figures released by the global Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC). In 2012, 230,000 people were registered as newly displaced...
90,000 Colombians displaced so far this year: NGO
Nearly 90,000 Colombians were forced from their homes by violence or intimidation in the first half of 2011, according to a report published on Friday by the Office of Human Rights and Displacement (CODHES). CODHES director...
1/3 of displaced people in 2010 moved from ‘consolidated areas’
One in three of the 280,000 people displaced in Colombia during 2010 were supposedly from areas that officially had been “consolidated” by the government. According to a report by CODHES, a Colombian NGO that...
390,000 Colombian refugees living abroad: NGO
Almost 390,000 Colombian citizens are refugees living outside of the country’s borders due to the armed conflict, reports NGO CODHES. Colombia ranks number one in the world for the number of people displaced by violence,...
