Colombia will give $700,000 to humanitarian organizations for Colombian refugees in Ecuador, the foreign minister announced Thursday after a meeting with her Ecuadorean counterpart. “Colombia will make a transfer of…
Around 1,500 Colombians every month, some 18,000 per year, flee to neighboring Ecuador in order to escape the armed conflict in the country, where they face xenophobia and uncertaintly over…
Eight hundred people have been displaced since the beginning of March on the Pacific coast of Colombia due to violence by illegal armed groups, according to the U.N. Refugee Agency…
The U.S. has called on the international community to pay more attention to Colombian refugees in Ecuador, Caracol Radio reported Tuesday. On a visit to Ecuador, Assistant Secretary of State…
Almost 390,000 Colombian citizens are refugees living outside of the country’s borders due to the armed conflict, reports NGO CODHES. Colombia ranks number one in the world for the number…
The UNHCR’s claim that Colombia’s displaced population is the world’s largest drew some much-needed attention to an age-old problem. Unfortunately, the government’s response treats the issue more as a publicity…
Colombian Foreign Minister Maria Angela Holguin announced that she will meet with her Ecuadorean counterpart, Ricardo Patiño, while in New York in September for the United Nations General Assembly meeting.…
Colombia’s Catholic church says there are more than 3.8 million displaced people in the country. The church praised the government’s initiatives to compensate displaced people and restore them to their…
Venezuelan labor leader Jose Rozo Lizcano calls for Colombia to pay compensation for the large number of refugees that pour over the border into Venezuela. Lizcano, who is the head…