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Colombia - Internally Displaced Women & Children

 

Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre

http://www.internal-displacement.org:80/countries/colombia

17 October 2008

Colombia - Rate of New Internal Displacement Highest in Two Decades

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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. (...)

Read full Overview (html / pdf)

Read Special Country Report: Resisting displacement by combatants and developers: Humanitarian Zones in north-west Colombia, November 2007





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