Colombia's 3 Million Refugees, Hidden in Plain Sight
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In Colombia and across the world, the United Nations says it is seeing more internally displaced people, who flee their homes but not their countries.
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SAN VICENTE DEL CAGUAN, Colombia -- Marxist rebels once ran a visitors center in this town in southern Colombia, the office staffed by a young, amiable female guerrilla and the walls decorated with huge posters of famed fighters. Rebels ran a court, built bridges and taxed locals, including the f...
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More than 2,000 Scandinavians were among more than 3,500 foreigners still unaccounted for three days after deadly walls of water slammed into coastal communities and resorts around the Indian Ocean.
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Much of Colombia came to a standstill on Thursday as hundreds of thousands of protesters marched against leftist rebels accused last week of killing 11 provincial lawmakers they were holding hostage.
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Red Cross says unknown number are fleeing homes, caught between Taliban and security forces
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By Hugh Bronstein BOGOTA, Colombia  - Colombia said on Friday that atop Marxist guerrilla leader may avoid extradition to theUnited States if his rebel group frees 63 hostages, includingthree Americans and one German.
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Thousands of Colombians took to the streets across the country and overseas on Monday in a huge protest against FARC guerrillas and their kidnapping of scores of hostages held captive for years in hidden jungle camps.
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TURBO, Colombia : Some 450 Colombian paramilitaries handed over weapons, the first of at least 3,000 right-wing fighters due to surrender their arms as an initial gesture in a peace deal.
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President Alvaro Uribe&#039;s administration is campaigning behind the scenes to silence the U.N. human rights monitors who have verified thousands of abuses in Colombia in recent years, foreign diplomats and rights groups say.
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BELGRADE, Oct 25 (IPS) - For more than a decade, the problem of refugees  in  Serbia was only expressed in numbers, exploited by politicians or   simply put aside.
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SANTA BARBARA, Venezuela -- A whodunit involving two undercover Colombian soldiers whose bodies were found here in western Venezuela has heightened tensions between the neighboring countries and lifted the lid on the dirty little secrets of their border relations.
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BOGOTA, Colombia, Jan. 1 -- A 3 1/2 -year-old boy whom Marxist rebels pledged to include in a hostage release that collapsed Monday is not in their hands, and has almost certainly been living in a foster care program in Bogota, Colombian officials said in interviews on Tuesday. They believe they...
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In Latin America, the memory of the "disappeared" never went away. In the United States, they were hardly ever known.
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BOGOTA, Colombia, Oct. 1 -- Little Juan David, like so many poor children in this city, might well have been forgotten.
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MEDELLIN, Colombia, Dec. 19 -- Some came to the Palace of Justice on Tuesday with huge color photographs of their loved ones strapped around their necks. Others wore T-shirts that read "Justice" and "Truth." Maria Eugenia Cobaleda, whose two older brothers were kidnapped in 1998 and never seen...
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The U.N. refugee agency is  alerting more than 33,000 vulnerable Iraqi refugees in Damascus  through text messages on cell phones, which many of them use to  keep in touch with family and friends.
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After freeing two hostages, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia is thought to still hold more than 700 others.