UN Official Slams Colombia over Internal Displacement Policy
UN Official Slams Colombia over Internal Displacement Policy
Published 18 June 2015
The government “has not done enough to reintegrate them into society,” said a UNHCR representative.
The Colombian government lacks the political will to properly address the issue of internally displaced people resulting from its 50-year armed conflict, said Deputy Representative of the U.N.’s Refugee Agency Martin Gottwald on Thursday.
Presenting the U.N. report on the situation of refugees of the world, Gottwald said that although in recent years the estimates of the country’s internally displaced have systematically decreased, they still remain very high.
“It is very premature to say that forced displacements are over in Colombia, as violations of human rights persist,” he added.
According to the U.N. estimate, in 2014 the country counted an additional 137,000 more displaced people, and ranked second in the world with a total of 6 million – placing behind Syria with 7.6 million.
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