Colombia will need $740M in aid to deal with Venezuelan migrants in 2020
Colombia’s government will need $740 million in order to deal with mass migration from...
Tag: UNHCR
Colombia requests UN envoy to deal with Venezuela’s mass exodus
Colombia’s foreign minister said Friday that he will request a special UN envoy...
Colombia has more internally displaced persons than Syria
Colombia continues to be the country with most internally displaced people in the world with 6.9...
Displaced victimized by govt protectors: Inspector General
A delegate for women displaced by violence in Colombia’s inspector general’s office Thursday said the government is failing to provide protection especially for women and also alleged corruption. According to El...
Colombia holds hope for refugees: UNHCR
“Colombia is one of the few sources of hope for refugees,” said the UN High Commission on Refugees on Friday, according to news-wire EFE. High Commissioner Antonio Guterres speaking at the end of an executive...
UN to monitor Colombia’s displacement
Colombia’s comptroller general and the UN Agency for Refugees (UNHCR) on Monday signed an agreement inviting the international watchdog to monitor the issue of displaced people due to armed conflict in the country....
‘Colombia is Latin America’s largest producer of refugees’: UN
In recognition of World Refugee Day, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said that “Colombia is Latin America’s largest producer of refugees,” with 396,000 Colombians forced out of their country by...
Colombians make up 7th largest refugee population worldwide
Colombia has the seventh highest number of registered refugees living outside its borders, according to a recent report from the United Nations Agency for Refugees (UNHCR). Between 1997 and 2011, about 3.9 million Colombians...
‘Massive’ displacement in Colombian schools, students assassinated: UN
Neo-paramilitary groups are causing Colombian students to be displaced on a ‘massive’ scale, according to the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), reported Colombian news provider Noticiero del Llano Wednesday. According to...
Colombia pledges $700,000 for refugees in Ecuador
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...
UN raises Colombia’s internally displaced figure to 3.6M
The U.N.’s refugee agency (UNHCR) has increased the figure of officially recognized internally displaced people in Colombia from 3.4 to 3.67 million, maintaining its undesired position as the first in the world, Caracol...
State and paramilitaries responsible for 16,000 forced disappearances: UN
The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights has said that the Colombian state and paramilitaries are culpable for 16,000 forced disappearances in the country over the last three decades, Spanish news agency EFE reported Monday....
