15 facts about Colombia’s land restitution process

Headline Title: 15 facts about Colombia’s land restitution process 27 November 2014 In a new report A land title is not enough: Ensuring sustainable land restitution in Colombia, Amnesty International explores the weaknesses and failures in implementing a Colombian law designed to help return stolen land to some of the victims of the country’s long-running armed conflict. Forced displacement 1. Almost six million people have been forcibly displaced since 1985, most of them as a consequence of Colombia's internal armed conflict - that is nearly…

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