Over 20,000 children displaced in Colombia this year alone: Report
More than 20,000 children have been forced from their homes in Colombia in the course of 2013, a report released on Tuesday said.
More than 20,000 children have been forced from their homes in Colombia in the course of 2013, a report released on Tuesday said.
The Prosecutor General’s (PG) office on Thursday refuted the latest report by Human Rights Watch, an international NGO which claimed insufficient action was being taken against those responsible for forced…
“If Colombia does not take further action to stop the [death threats, intimidation, and killing], the problem [facing Colombia’s displaced] is likely to get much worse,” said the Human Rights…
The United Nations Refugee Agency will launch a plan to aid child refugees from Colombia who are residing in Ecuador.
Police on Friday arrested a neo-paramilitary leader who is accused of having forcibly displaced 28,000 people in the north of Colombia.
The United Nations said Tuesday it has received reports of mass displacement in the southern Colombian department of Cauca.
Despite increased police presence in Cali’s Comuna 15 district, displacement continues as gangs struggle for control over the control of local drug trafficking rackets.
More than 36% of all forced displacement cases in Colombia take place on the Pacific coast, according to 2012 figures released on Friday by non-government human rights and displacement group…
Armed men have raped at least three women in the northwest of Colombia, forcing their families to flee their homes, local media reported on Friday.