Para-economics
Para-economics is a phenomenon in Colombia in which businesses use death squads to either evade labor laws, increase their assets or maximize profits. The practice was particularly common in the 1990s and 2000s but…
Para-economics is a phenomenon in Colombia in which businesses use death squads to either evade labor laws, increase their assets or maximize profits. The practice was particularly common in the 1990s and 2000s but…
The United Nations urged Colombia on Tuesday to take immediate action against ongoing violence in the northwest of the country. According to figures of the UN’s refugee agency UNHCR, over…
Colombia’s ruling party wants to hinder war victims’ efforts to seek the return of 3 million hectares of land — an area the size of Belgium — they say was…
Colombia’s armed conflict has displaced more than 7 million Colombians in what increasingly appears to have been a major land theft operation as only 16% of displaced victims were uprooted…
Colombia’s land restitution process is failing to adequately process the return of land to victims of displacement and is now facing severe criticism from both NGOs and political movements.
Colombia is home to one of the world’s largest populations of displaced people, according to a study by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
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…
Hundreds of displacement victims were cleared from Bogota’s Plaza Bolivar, where they had been gathering in act of protest, national media reported Wednesday.
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…