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Source: UNHCR Many of the displaced Colombians who flee to Tumaco on the Pacific coast live in the swampy Puerta del Sol settlement. UNHCR helps to make their lives easier.

Source: UNHCR Luz Maria grew up in the lush Columbian countryside but was forced to flee with her family when an illegal group moved into the area. Life in the city is very different.

Date: 11 Jan 2010
Source: UN High Commissioner for Refugees

Date: 30 Dec 2009
Source: AlertNet

Date: 28 Dec 2009
Source: Missionary International Service News Agency

Date: 17 Nov 2009
Source: Refugees International

Source: UNHCR Providing an insight into the losses sustained by millions of displaced Colombians is at the heart of a new UNHCR campaign.

Date: 20 Aug 2009
Source: AlertNet

Date: 03 Aug 2009
Source: Colombia Journal

Date: 17 Jul 2009
Source: Amnesty

Source: Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre The protracted internal armed conflict in Colombia had to May 2009 displaced almost 3.1 million people according to the government, and over 4.6 million people according to a reliable non-governmental source.

Source: Humanitarian Practice Network The current discourse of post-conflict recovery or peace in Colombia fails to recognise the fact that over 2.5 million remain internally displaced.

Hundreds of Colombia's displaced families are camped out in a makeshift settlement in downtown Bogotá, demanding jobs, subsidies and a permanent place to live.

For more than two months, they have taken over a park, a short walk away from parliament, to protest what they say is the government's failure to provide aid they are entitled to. So far, they are surviving on food handouts offered by local university students and by begging.

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Source: ECHO Colombia has been affected by internal conflict for more than 40 years, and as a result, it now has to cope with one of the world's largest humanitarian crises: the country has more internally ...

More than 2,000 indigenous Embera people flee their territory in the jungles of north-west Colombia since the arrival of a newly formed irregular armed group.

Source: UNHCR More than 2,000 indigenous Embera people flee their territory in the jungles of north-west Colombia since the arrival of a newly formed irregular armed group.

Date: 03 Apr 2009
Source: ICRC

International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) - Switzerland Bogotá (ICRC) – In Chocó department, western Colombia, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has distributed food and other items such as hygiene articles, cooking equipment and hammocks to around 600 indigenous people.

Date: 31 Mar 2009
Source: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

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