Featured here is a selection of images of displaced refugees in Colombia. Hundreds of Colombians arrive every week in cities along the Caribbean coast, pushed north by this country's cocaine-fueled guerrilla war. Left vulnerable by a government too weak to protect them, displaced families are greeted by poverty and growing exploitation that the United Nations says is compounding the world's worst ongoing humanitarian crisis outside Africa.
A Colombian Indian boy Nukak Maku
displaced by violence looks out of his
tent near San Jose del Guaviare of
Guaviare province, 300km (186 miles)
southeast of Bogota on May 12, 2005.
Hundreds of Colombians arrive every week
in cities along the Caribbean coast,
pushed north by this country's cocaine-
fueled guerrilla war. Left vulnerable by
a government too weak to protect them,
displaced families are greeted by
poverty and growing exploitation that
the United Nations says is compounding
the world's worst ongoing humanitarian
crisis outside Africa. Picture taken on
May 12, 2005. To match feature Colombia-
Refugee REUTERS/Eliana
Aponte
REF: PXP501D
A girl displaced by Colombian violence
stands during a sunset in her
neighborhood in Barranquilla, seen in
this picture taken on May 11, 2005.
Hundreds of Colombians arrive every week
in cities along the Caribbean coast,
pushed north by this country's cocaine-
fueled guerrilla war. Left vulnerable by
a government too weak to protect them,
displaced families are greeted by
poverty and growing exploitation that
the United Nations says is compounding
the world's worst ongoing humanitarian
crisis outside Africa. REUTERS/Jose
Miguel Gomez/Features Colombia Refugees.
Picture taken May 11, 2005.
REF: PXP505D
A Colombian woman Nukak Maku Indian
eats at a refugee camp near San Jose del
Guaviare of Guaviare province, 300 kms
of southeast of Bogota in this photo
taken on May 12, 2005. Hundreds of
Colombians arrive every week in cities
along the Caribbean coast, pushed north
by this country's cocaine-fueled
guerrilla war. Left vulnerable by a
government too weak to protect them,
displaced families are greeted by
poverty and growing exploitation that
the United Nations says is compounding
the world's worst ongoing humanitarian
crisis outside Africa. REUTERS/Eliana
Aponte/Features Colombia Refugees.
Picture taken May 12, 2005.
REF: PXP503D
Colombian Embera-Catios Indian, Melba
Sintua, looks on at the kitchen in
Cazuca near Bogota, in this picture
taken on June 21, 2005. Hundreds of
Colombians arrive every week in cities
along the Caribbean coast, pushed north
by this country's cocaine-fueled
guerrilla war. Left vulnerable by a
government too weak to protect them,
displaced families are greeted by
poverty and growing exploitation that
the United Nations says is compounding
the world's worst ongoing humanitarian
crisis outside Africa. REUTERS/Eliana
Aponte/Features Colombia Refugees.
Picture taken June 21, 2005.
REF: PXP504D
A Colombian boy launches a fish net in a
beach where lives people displaced by
violence near Barranquilla, in this
picture taken on May 11, 2005. Hundreds
of Colombians arrive every week in
cities along the Caribbean coast, pushed
north by this country's cocaine-fueled
guerrilla war. Left vulnerable by a
government too weak to protect them,
displaced families are greeted by
poverty and growing exploitation that
the United Nations says is compounding
the world's worst ongoing humanitarian
crisis outside Africa. REUTERS/Jose
Miguel Gomez/Features Colombia Refugees.
Picture taken May 11, 2005.
REF: PXP507D
A Colombian soldier checks the bag of a
woman who carries his baby near Toribio
during combats between Colombian army
and rebels of the FARC in Toribio, Cauca
province, in this photo taken on April
23, 2005. Hundreds of Colombians arrive
every week in cities along the Caribbean
coast, pushed north by this country's
cocaine-fueled guerrilla war. Left
vulnerable by a government too weak to
protect them, displaced families are
greeted by poverty and growing
exploitation that the United Nations
says is compounding the world's worst
ongoing humanitarian crisis outside
Africa. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz/Feature
Colombia Refugees Photo taken April 23,
2005
REF: PXP508D
Colombian children who are displaced by
violence play soccer after a day of
combats between Colombian Army and
rebels of the FARC in Toribio, Cauca
province, in this photo taken on April
23, 2005. Hundreds of Colombians arrive
every week in cities along the Caribbean
coast, pushed north by this country's
cocaine-fueled guerrilla war. Left
vulnerable by a government too weak to
protect them, displaced families are
greeted by poverty and growing
exploitation that the United Nations
says is compounding the world's worst
ongoing humanitarian crisis outside
Africa. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz/Feature
Colombia Refugees Picture taken on April
23,
2005
REF: PXP502D
Colombian children displaced by violence
pose for a picture on a polluted beach
near Barranquilla, in this picture taken
on May 11, 2005. Hundreds of Colombians
arrive every week in cities along the
Caribbean coast, pushed north by this
country's cocaine-fueled guerrilla war.
Left vulnerable by a government too weak
to protect them, displaced families are
greeted by poverty and growing
exploitation that the United Nations
says is compounding the world's worst
ongoing humanitarian crisis outside
Africa. REUTERS/Jose Miguel Gomez/
Features Colombia Refugees. Picture
taken May 11, 2005.
REF: PXP506D
Colombian Nukak Maku Indian boys rest in
a refugee camp near San Jose del
Guaviare of Guaviare province, 300km (
186 miles) of southeast of Bogota on May
12, 2005. Hundreds of Colombians arrive
every week in cities along the Caribbean
coast, pushed north by this country's
cocaine-fueled guerrilla war. Left
vulnerable by a government too weak to
protect them, displaced families are
greeted by poverty and growing
exploitation that the United Nations
says is compounding the world's worst
ongoing humanitarian crisis outside
Africa. Picture taken on May 12, 2005.
To match feature Colombia-Refugee
REUTERS/Eliana
Aponte
REF: PXP500D
