Eight people have been killed in the north of Antioquia province since Sunday as paramilitary groups fight for territorial control of the region in the Bajo Cauca region. The killings stem…
Internal displacement and a rise in the arrival of undocumented immigrants to Colombia has spurred a humanitarian crisis on the borders, according to the United Nation’s refugee agency UNHCR. Along with Colombia’s human rights office,…
Without the armed conflict, Colombia’s economic growth could have been 8.7% instead of 4.3%, according to a new study from the conflict research institute.
The government does not have the capacity to immediately compensate all 6 million victims of Colombia’s ongoing armed conflict, President Juan Manual Santos told local media on Wednesday.
“Colombia is one of the few sources of hope for refugees,” said the UN High Commission on Refugees on Friday, according to news-wire EFE. High Commissioner Antonio Guterres speaking at…
The Red Cross said Tuesday it has moved into Colombia’s tense Choco department to offer assistance to displaced people pushed out by escalating violence. According to a press release, aid…
Clared Patricia Jaramillo did not expect to be doing what she is doing today. Educated as an industrial engineer, she now spends her days advocating for social change and working…
The cities of Medellin and Villavicencio constitute 40% of Colombia’s forced disappearance cases currently being investigated, according to the U.N. Medellin, in the north-west department of Antioquia, and Villavicencio, in…
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,…