Violence against civilians in Colombia is rising amid challenges to the Gustavo Petro administration's Total Peace policy and the growing strength of armed and criminal groups, a new analysis by InSight Crime shows.
Between January and May 2024, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reported a 36% inter-annual increase in the number of people displaced. Additionally, there was a 171% rise in people experiencing confinement and a 13.8% increase in those affected by conflict. So far, 53,600 people have been affected by confinement and 29,200 by mass displacement.
