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, according to a joint report by the Colombian government and a local NGO released…
The number of people displaced by Colombia’s armed conflict fell by 32% from 2012 to 2013, according to a joint report by the Colombian government and a local NGO released…
Colombia’s largest and oldest rebel group FARC systematically engages in displacing people from their land, according to a study made by the Prosecutor General’s Office.
More than 36% of all forced displacement cases in Colombia take place on the Pacific coast, according to 2012 figures released on Friday by non-government human rights and displacement group…
Colombia has the highest level of internal displacement in the world, according to latest figures released by the global Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC).
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…
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,…
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…
A group of human rights activists, NGOs, and American and Colombian citizens held a rally in front of the White House in Washington D.C. Monday evening to call to attention…
Around 300 farmers were forced to flee their homes in Buenaventura, on Colombia’s Pacific coast, to escape heavy fighting between the armed forces and the FARC which started on May…