More than 10% of Colombia’s population is displaced, Constitutional Court magistrate Luis Ernesto Vargas said Thursday. The court official blames the massive displacement on the country’s armed conflict, but also…
Venezuelan labor leader Jose Rozo Lizcano calls for Colombia to pay compensation for the large number of refugees that pour over the border into Venezuela. Lizcano, who is the head…
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos on Saturday promised to return 6 million hectares of farmland that were stolen by paramilitary groups after displacing its original owners. The President said he…
More than 7,500 Colombians have been displaced by the country’s armed conflict so far in 2010, according to a United Nations report, which says that “serious gaps [in] the protection…
An international delegation will accompany 290 Colombians, displaced by violence and forced to flee into the jungle in the western department of Choco, as they return to their homes. The…
Colombian Minister for Agriculture Juan Camilo Restrepo Salazar said Friday that the ministry is working on returning land seized by illegal groups to its displaced owners. “These lands need to…
Around 50 families have fled into the jungles of the west Colombian Choco department to escape fighting between rival narco-trafficking paramilitary groups, according to regional Ombudsman Victor Raul Mosquera. The humanitarian crisis is…
The Colombian government announced Wednesday a $24 million package which it hopes will improve the rights and living conditions of the Andean nation’s displaced population. On the strength of this…
In a report presented by Doctors without Borders in Madrid on Tuesday, the international NGO called for state mental health services to be adapted to meet the needs of Colombians internally…