Colombia's Catatumbo region faces uncertain future amid mass displacement

Colombia's Catatumbo region faces uncertain future amid mass displacement

Intense clashes erupted in Colombia’s Catatumbo region in Jan. 2025, causing widespread violence and mass displacement. The ongoing conflict between guerrillas and paramilitary groups has claimed around 100 lives and displaced 50,000 people. Now, more

Colombia suffers the worst humanitarian situation of the last eight years, the violence has increased and there is a worrying increase in the victims of explosive devices, warned the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on Thursday when presenting its annual assessment and the challenges of this 2025. This crisis has been aggravated by the “increasing lack of respect for the rules of international humanitarian law”, or IHL, underlined…

The Red Cross reported this Thursday (27) that the deterioration of the humanitarian situation in Colombia reached its most critical point in the last eight years in 2024. According to the institution, the intensification of hostilities, the increase in the control of armed groups over the civilian population and the growing disrespect for international humanitarian law have “alarmingly increased the risks to the life, integrity and dignity of t…

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) presented its report Humanitarian Challenges 2025, in which it notes that during 2024, the deterioration of the humanitarian situation in Colombia reached its most critical point in the past eight years, due to the increase in armed conflicts and the intensification of violations of International Humanitarian Law (IHL). The report documented 382 alleged violations of IHL in 2024, of which 44% a…

Compared to 2023, the findings of the International Committee of the Red Cross revealed an increase of almost 500 affected persons

That body documented 719 victims (97 of them killed) of explosive devices, which “signified an 89% increase in casualties” compared to 2023. The International Committee of the Red Cross warned that the humanitarian situation deteriorated “in a worrying way” in Colombia last year, in which that body documented 382 violations of international humanitarian law. “The humanitarian situation in 2024 reached its most critical point in the past eight ye…