Colombian armed conflict11/15/2023 ![]() The first two-and-a-half months of 2022 has seen 44% as many people affected as were in all of 2021 ( OCHA accessed. ![]() Between 1 January and 17 March 2022, the number of people affected by confinement and displacement doubled compared to the same period in 2021. The clear increase in conflict in departments near the Pacific coast (Cauca, Chocó, Nariño, Valle del Cauca) and the border with Venezuela (Arauca, Norte de Santander, Vichada) has, in turn, increased cases of displacement and confinement. The number of children and adolescents recruited into armed groups to bolster their ranks has also increased (InSight Crime ). ![]() Displacement impacted around 13,000 children among those affected by conflict in 2021 ( OCHA COALICO 2021). Between 20, there was an astounding 88% increase (from 12,481 to 23,465) in the number of conflict-affected children and youth ( COALICO 20). Although violence decreased after the 2016 demobilisation of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARCEP), attempts by other armed groups to take over the power vacuum in areas previously dominated by the FARC-EP has increased conflict levels. According to Colombia’s Victims Unit, between 19, armed conflict in the country affected more than two million children and youth, including through displacement, confinement, recruitment, abuse, and sexual violence ( COALICO 2021 UN SC ).
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