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Forced Migration Review (Special Issue, January 2009), Ten Years of the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement

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TEN YEARS OF GUIDING PRINCIPLES ON INTERNAL DISPLACEMENT
Achievements and Future Challenges
Oslo, 16-17 October 2008

A view of the Embera indigenous people displaced by armed conflict. UN Photo/Mark Garten. www.unmultimedia.org/photo/
A view of the Embera indigenous people displaced by armed conflict. UN Photo/Mark Garten. www.unmultimedia.org/photo/

Colombia: New displacement continues, response still ineffective

03 July 2009

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 re-liable non-governmental source. Nevertheless, under-registration in the government’s sys-tem remains pervasive. In 2008, Colombia’s highest administrative court derogated a decree that determined that internally displaced people (IDPs) could only be included in the national registry up to one year after being displaced, and in January, 2009, the Constitu-tional Court directed the government to decisively tackle this problem by improving regis-tration systems.(...)



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