800 displaced by violence on Pacific coast
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…
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…
Bogota police forcibly removed eight displaced families Thursday from the Institute for Family Welfare building (ICBF) in the country’s capital after an occupation that lasted more than two years, El…
A local leader of neo-paramilitary criminal organization “Los Urabeños” is detained in the Sucre department, north Colombia, W Radio reports. The man, alias “Santiago,” was arrested by Colombian National Police…
Colombia plans to reform the body that oversees the country’s notary and registry offices, due to findings that these organizations helped steal land from rural farmers. Minister of the Interior…
More than 150 of the 2,000 people who left their homes in north Colombia to protest against crop fumigation begin their return home, using buses provided by the provincial government,…
The city of Medellin is in the throes of an alarming rise in forced displacement. According to the local ombudsman, 2010 saw a 130% rise in cases compared to the…
Prominent FARC leader Jesus “El Pajaro” Morales Morales, who was active in the north-west of the Antioquia department, has given himself up to the armed forces, Caracol Radio reported Tuesday. Defense Minister…
Accion Social reported on Friday that forced displacement had dropped by 48 percent in Colombia in 2010, but an NGO says that actual numbers may vary, reported CM& on Tuesday.…
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…