“The hard-won peace is at risk as long as rural Colombians still live in fear for their lives,”said Christian Visnes, country director for the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) in Colombia.
Entering the third year of the peace agreement signed in 2016 by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC-EP) and the government, the scale, severity, and complexity of needs in Colombia remain overwhelming. More than 4 million people require humanitarian assistance. Of these, over 100,000 are in acute need of protection and access to basic goods and services.
The rural population in many parts of the country are especially vulnerable and continue to face forced recruitments, killings, sexual violence and the threat of anti-personnel mines. Leer más...