82% of Colombia’s refugees are poverty-stricken: CODHES
80.7 percent of Colombia’s displaced population – in total more than a quarter of a million people – are poverty-stricken, a Colombian NGO told the Inter-American Court of Human Rights…
80.7 percent of Colombia’s displaced population – in total more than a quarter of a million people – are poverty-stricken, a Colombian NGO told the Inter-American Court of Human Rights…
Some 300 refugees from Bogota’s Parque Tercer Milenio took over the headquarters of the Agricultural Bank in Colombia’s capital city on Tuesday night. The group of 300 displaced people, relocated…
Over the last few days up to 60 families were forced to flee their homes in Colombia’s northern department of Cordoba following brutal confrontations between two drug trafficking paramilitary gangs.…
Some 23 indigenous tribes from south eastern Colombia are at risk of extinction as a result of the ongoing armed conflict ravaging the region, explained the President of the Human…
91 people have been displaced to the Pacific Colombian town of Guapi due to violent clashes between security forces and the FARC, stated the United Nations on Monday.Another 160 people…
Around 700 people were displaced by clashes between the FARC and ELN over territory in El Charco, Nariño department, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in…
The recruitment of children by illegal armed groups has forced the indigenous of the Vaupes department to flee their lands, according to a report by the UNHCR. “Over the past…
Paramilitary group ‘Aguilas Negras’ threatened, tortured and displaced the indigenous tribe Embera Pichinde in the Choco department for the fourth time, indigenous representatives said Wednesday. Seven masked and armed men,…