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Displaced families in Colombia live in conditions of extreme poverty. This is a camp outside of Turbo in the northern region of Uraba. It is home to approximately 600 people.
These shacks are home to a displaced community in the department of Cesar.
Nearly half of the displaced population in Colombia are children.
The vast majority of displaced families do not even receive running water in their homes. These women are using water from a stream to wash their clothes.
The neighbourhood of Cazuca in the capital Bogotá is home to thousands of displaced people. In total there are over 2 million displaced people in Colombia.
This displaced neighbourhood in Bogotá lacks every sort of basic service so members of the community are forced to illegally tap into the electricity system.
Children play in a camp for the displaced in the southern city of Neiva.
The government refuses to help most displaced people forcing community organisations to take on much of the burden. This community soup kitchen is in the southern city of Neiva. Unfortunately the state security forces and paramilitaries are now targeting the organisers of the community groups and accusing them of being rebel sympathisers.
This baby is sitting in the doorway of a sports arena in the northern town of San Jose de Apartado. For some years now the arena has been home to around 100 families whom the paramilitaries forced from their land after accusing them of giving food and information to local rebel units.
This child comes from the predominantly Afro-Colombian department of Choco. Forced displacement is a particular problem for Afro-Colombians and in recent years paramilitaries have forced hundreds of thousands from their land.
A street child in Bogotá. Rather then help such children the government seems to tolerate the police policy of murdering them. Such killings are referred to as 'social cleansing' in Colombia.
This child is sleeping among the rubbish. The rubbish dumps outside of Colombia's major cities are home to thousands of street children.
A displaced child in Huila department.
Two children playing in the street in Bogotá.
Many displaced women are forced to turn to prostitution in order to feed their families.
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