Colombia’s displaced population fell 50% last year: Red Cross
The number of internally displaced people in Colombia dropped by 50 percent last year, the president of the Red Cross told President Alvaro Uribe on Thursday. It is not known…
The number of internally displaced people in Colombia dropped by 50 percent last year, the president of the Red Cross told President Alvaro Uribe on Thursday. It is not known…
Colombia’s Constitutional Court has asked the mayors of the country’s three biggest cities, Bogota, Medellin and Cali, to testify on the state of care for people displaced by the country’s…
90% of people displaced by violence in Colombia do not want to return to their homelands, claims a report presented by UNHCR’s representative in Colombia. Jean-Nöel Wetterwald, the UN High…
The director of the government agency for social action in Colombia, Diego Andres Molano Aponte reported a 56% decrease in displacement for the year of 2009, with more than 107,752…
412 Colombians and 40 Brazilians were expelled from Venezuela and allegedly mistreated after the illegal gold mine they were working for was closed down. Diego Molano, the director of the…
More than 20 displaced people were injured in a confrontation with the armed forces in the northern department of Magdalena, during the eviction of 300 families living in the area.…
Paris, one of Aburra Valley’s most impoverished barrios – a densely populated heap of haphazard rooftops with a violent reputation. It is where many displaced Colombians arrive to build a…
Ecuador’s government has issued refugee visas to over 16,000 displaced Colombians in provinces bordering Colombia, the Foreign Ministry announced in a statement Thursday. A survey, launched in March, is currently…
Violence forced some 117 people to flee their homes in the northwest of Medellin in what authorities are calling the largest displacement within the city in recent years. According to…