Officials told 15 members of the more than 150 displaced Embera families that they would not be returned to their lands, because they are not formally registered as displaced persons.…
Bogota’s city government on Tuesday vowed it would guarantee the safe return of hundred of displaced people that have been stranded in the capital without food or shelter for weeks.…
A series of reports submitted to Colombia’s transitional justice body spotlight the scale on which multinationals and other companies took advantage of the armed conflict. The Forjando Futuros Foundation submitted…
More than 400 people, mostly children, have been displaced in southwest Colombia where two FARC dissident groups are fighting over control, according to the United Nations. The inhabitants of seven…
Colombia has the highest number of internally displaced people (IDPs), according to the United Nations. In its annual report, the UNHCR, the agency in charge of monitoring forced displacement, said…
Almost 700 people have been displaced from their communities in western Colombia after paramilitary incursions, the United Nations said Wednesday. According to the international organization, the inhabitants of five indigenous…
More than 7 million people were displaced during Colombia’s armed conflict, according to the National Victims Registry. Before this government agency took charge of maintaining the registry of conflict victims,…
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos promised to process 35% of the total applications for land restitution within a year. Could this be a hopeful change for the heavily criticized process?
While the government and the FARC peace negotiators in Havana spent 2014 talking peace, the number of victims of forced displacement due to the armed conflict remained high, according to the…