Medellin gang members sentenced over 2013 mass urban displacement
Ten members of a Medellin gang were sentenced to eight years and nine months in prison over the forced displacement of 286 people in 2013, local media reported Wednesday.
Ten members of a Medellin gang were sentenced to eight years and nine months in prison over the forced displacement of 286 people in 2013, local media reported Wednesday.
Three months after the UN called on Colombia to take “urgent measures” to curb violence in the Pacific port city of Buenaventura, the government has yet to contain the swell…
Rebel related military violence has caused the displacement of least 284 Afro-Colombians in the southwestern state of Nariño.
Colombia’s government said Wednesday that land lost during armed conflicts would be returned to indigenous groups, beginning with the Embera Katio in the northwest of the country.
At least 45 families have been forcibly displaced in the western Colombian state of Choco after landmines were buried throughout their communities, according to the Colombian Campaign Against Mines (CCCM)…
Forty-five family members of man who was shot last week in Colombia’s second largest city Medellin have reportedly been displaced from their homes following threats from illegal armed groups operating in…
Clashes between leftist rebel group ELN and neo-paramilitary group Urabeños have forced some 1,000 residents from the northwest of Colombia to flee their homes, the Ombudsman said Thursday.
More than 200 people have fled their homes in the northwest of Colombia amid clashes between guerrilla group FARC and neo-paramilitary group Urabeños, said a local NGO on Wednesday.
A former commander of defunct paramilitary group AUC, alias “El Aleman,” will be charged with the crime of forcibly displacing Colombians from their land and property.