Over 4000 indigenous people were victims of displacement amid violence across Colombia during the first five months of 2014, the United Nations (UN), local media reported on Tuesday.
The number of people displaced by Colombia’s armed conflict fell by 32% from 2012 to 2013, according to a joint report by the Colombian government and a local NGO released…
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.
Two mass evictions led to riots in Western Colombia on Wednesday, when eight people, including two policemen, were reportedly injured, according to Colombia’s El Tiempo newspaper .
Authorities in Colombia’s largest Pacific port, Buenaventura, have found 14 dismembered bodies so far in 2014, after yet another butchered corpse was discovered Tuesday, reported local media.
Nearly 2,600 people have been displaced in the western state of Choco since Saturday, amid clashes between leftist guerrilla and Colombia’s most powerful neo-paramilitary organization, says the local human rights…
The ongoing criminal violence in Colombia’s southwestern city of Buenaventura have made it the capital of inter-urban displacement in the country, according to the international NGO Human Rights Watch (HRW).
At least 112 members of a single family were forced from their homes last week by criminal groups in Colombia’s largest Pacific port, according to the Colombian Ombudsman’s Office.
Colombian Congressman Ivan Cepeda has accused three mining companies of using falsified documents to seize land intended for farmers and displaced persons, local media reported on Friday.