Almost 40% of the 3.5 million Colombians living abroad are illegal immigrants, according to figures from the Colombian government, reports RCN Radio. Colombian Vice President Angelino Garzon revealed the information…
Bogota’s Superior Court has suspended the payment of COP30 billion ($16 million) in compensation to 1,500 displaced Colombians by presidential aid agency Accion Social, Semana reports. Accion Social won its second appeal…
The number of displaced Colombians known to be living in Ecuador has increased by 26,000, over 50%, following new figures released by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), reported…
90% of people displaced by violence in Colombia do not want to return to their homelands, claims a report presented by UNHCR’s representative in Colombia. Jean-Nöel Wetterwald, the UN High…
By 2010 six million Colombians will have made new lives for themselves in other countries, claimed a study released on Tuesday.
“The primary necessity is for Colombia to acknowledge that it has a conflict,” declared the Bogota Mayor Wednesday at a forum on challenges facing Colombia’s cities. During the forum, held…
Reductions of up to 60% in funding for communities displaced by violence in Colombia were revealed by the country’s Constitutional Court on Wednesday. Judicial authorities have been making continuous assessments…
War in Colombia prevents victims from accessing health services and is causing growing restrictions on the entry of humanitarian agencies into the country, says Doctors Without Borders. The humanitarian organization…
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…