WUNRN
Colombia - Internally Displaced
Women & Children
Internal Displacement Monitoring
Centre
Internally displaced girls in Chocó
department (Birkenes/IDMC)
The protracted internal armed conflict in Colombia had by June 2008 displaced 2,649,139 people according to the government, and 4,361,355 people according to a reliable non-governmental source. An alarming trend of rising internal displacement has been registered since 2006, and the highest rate of displacement in 23 years was recorded in the first semester of 2008.
All parties in the conflict, including guerrilla groups, paramilitaries, and state forces are responsible, to different degrees, for forced displacement and human rights violations and abuses. (...)
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