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Source: UNHCR Colombian director Carlos Gaviria and actress Indhira Serrano both met with individuals displaced by conflict in Colombia ahead of making the film 'Portraits in a Sea of Lies'.

Lutheran World Federation (LWF) - Switzerland (Department for World Service) [After years of seeing a steady rise in the number of internally displaced persons, Colombia experienced a drop in newly registered individuals according to state statistics in 2009 in comparison with ...

BOGOTA (AlertNet) - A sharp fall in kidnapping and murder rates along with heavy losses suffered by the FARC have made Colombian President Alvaro Uribe the most popular leader in his country's history. But while many Colombians credit the hardliner with saving the country from being overrun by guerrillas, observers note he has had little success in narrowing the wealth gap or tackling a massive displacement crisis.

A stern Oxford and Harvard educated lawyer, Uribe's popularity ratings have hovered above 60 percent throughout his term in office, which will end in August after eight years.

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Source: Reuters * Ongoing war creates social problems, pressures cities * Next government faces large social divide, joblessness By Frank Jack Daniel SOACHA, Colombia, June 10 (Reuters) - Spread along a muddy ...

By Lully Posada

Ituango is a small town located in the mountains north Antioquia, 195 kilometers from Medelln, Colombia. Its residents have been suffering time and again because they have had to abandon their lands, as a sort of forced displacement due to guerrilla and paramilitary hostilities. Ituango is a rich region, but poor at the same time because its residents have had to face controversy with the hydro-electric project of Pescadero-Ituango in which the government has been attempting to hand it over to foreign companies. This project would also provide Colombia additional contributions to the generation of electricity, which is also another region why armed groups want to take control of this natural region.

Photo of the displaced by Adriana Jaramillo and used with permission.

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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.