Colombia tiene una de las mayores cifras de desplazados internos en el mundo. Sin embargo, hay un enigma. Mientras las cifras más recientes de las ONG calculan en 4 millones el número total de desplazados internos desde 1985, las cifras del gobierno colombiano muestran estimativos mucho más bajos, de 1,9 millones. De hecho, hay importantes discrepancias en las maneras como se identifica, cuenta y clasifica a los desplazados.

This guide summarizes international human rights standards applicable to involuntary displacement caused by public and private infrastructure and urbanization projects. It provides guidance for all involved parties: urban planners and architects, public authorities, the legal community, national or international financing entities, governments, civil society, and affected populations. It aims to provide guidance to assist in the execution of development projects that respect, protect and fulfil the human right to adequate housing of the communities that will be affected by them.

This note discusses the development dimensions of forced displacement, and the potential role of the World Bank to address these dimensions and contribute to durable solutions for group's who have returned from or are in displacement situations. For the purposes of this note, forced displacement refers to the situation of persons who are forced to leave or flee their homes due to conflict, violence, and human rights violations.

Las personas en situación de calle que se encuentran habitando, en su mayoría, la zona del centro de la ciudad de Medellín y no son solamente los originarios de la ciudad, sino que en muchos de los casos provienen de otras regiones. Sobre este tema de las migraciones, la hipótesis es ¿Por qué Medellín es centro de atención para todas estas personas que habitan en las calles? Existen varias respuestas a esta interrogante, pero según lo investigado, Medellín es una ciudad que ofrece condiciones que permiten subsistir en estas condiciones.

Up to one quarter of the world’s population is estimated to be landless, including 200 million
people living in rural areas,1
and approximately 75% of the world’s population living in extreme
poverty (less than $1/day) live in rural areas.2
According to the Food and Agriculture Agency of the
United Nations (FAO), “rural landlessness is often the best predictor of poverty and hunger.”3
“While not the only pathway out of poverty, ample evidence suggests that access to land is effective

Finding Food in Fear/Living in Fear
Introduction for ‘one family’....

In February 2010, Burma Issues conducted a field trip inside Karen State to raise internally displaced persons’ (IDPs) awareness of the upcoming elections. While they were watching a video, the township where the IDPs were staying was attacked by the Burmese army. They had to flee into the jungle and our cameraman decided to follow.

Armed conflict broke out in Côte d’Ivoire in 2002, which caused the country to be divided in two: the north under the control of the Forces Nouvelles rebels and the south in the hands of the government. It also caused the mass displacement of hundreds of thousands of people. In the west of the country, and in particular in the two regions of Moyen Cavally and Dix-Huit Montagnes, the crisis provoked a series of successive displacements involving population groups with competing claims over land.

Message from KDNG: "As a network of residents of Kachin State, we, the Kachin Development Networking Group, have been monitoring plans by the stateowned China Power Investment Corporation and Burma’s military regime to build seven dams on the Irrawaddy River and its two main tributaries. In 2007 we published the report, "Damming the Irrawaddy" which surveyed the environment and peoples in the affected area and analyzed the negative impacts of these dams. Today construction of the 2,000-megawatt Chibwe Dam on the N’Mai River is already underway.

Message from KDNG: "As a network of residents of Kachin State, we, the Kachin Development Networking Group, have been monitoring plans by the stateowned China Power Investment Corporation and Burma’s military regime to build seven dams on the Irrawaddy River and its two main tributaries. In 2007 we published the report, "Damming the Irrawaddy" which surveyed the environment and peoples in the affected area and analyzed the negative impacts of these dams. Today construction of the 2,000-megawatt Chibwe Dam on the N’Mai River is already underway.

El documento intenta explicar la relación entre política agraria, "frontera agrícola"/dinámica de colonización (y el rol de la coca en este proceso), relaciones de poder y desafios de la ciudadanía.

10,000 Shans uprooted, 500 houses burned in Burmese regime’s latest scorched earth campaign (press release)...

Map of villages forcibly relocated...

Summary of villages forcibly relocated...

Images of the Burmese regime's latest scorched earth campaign