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Bogota, Colombia.
In Colombia, acts of enforced disappearance have been perpetrated by a variety of actors,
including paramilitary, guerrilla forces and even forces from the government.
Individuals are abducted, often tortured and killed, and are never heard from again.
According to NGOs Latin America Working Group there are about 51.000 people missing (Nov. 2010).

Bogota, Colombia.
In Colombia, acts of enforced disappearance have been perpetrated by a variety of actors,
including paramilitary, guerrilla forces and even forces from the government.
Individuals are abducted, often tortured and killed, and are never heard from again.
According to NGOs Latin America Working Group there are about 51.000 people missing (Nov. 2010).

Bogota, Colombia.
In Colombia, acts of enforced disappearance have been perpetrated by a variety of actors,
including paramilitary, guerrilla forces and even forces from the government.
Individuals are abducted, often tortured and killed, and are never heard from again.
According to NGOs Latin America Working Group there are about 51.000 people missing (Nov. 2010).

Bogota, Colombia.
La Colombianita, a small neighborhood in the centre of Bogota built on trash and home for recyclers and their families.
In the year 2009 La Colombianita go cleaned up and removed.
The people living there got offered a place to stay in the South of Bogota,
though some of them did not want to move away from the centre and the commercial area,
as that's the best place to find recycling material, which means money.

Bogota, Colombia.
La Colombianita, a small neighborhood in the centre of Bogota built on trash and home for recyclers and their families.
In the year 2009 La Colombianita go cleaned up and removed.
The people living there got offered a place to stay in the South of Bogota,
though some of them did not want to move away from the centre and the commercial area,
as that's the best place to find recycling material, which means money.

Bogota, Colombia.
Carlos, a 35 year old recycler of the streets of Bogota, Colombia.
He used to live in La Colombianita with his son and his wife.

Bogota, Colombia.
Carlos, a 35 year old recycler of the streets of Bogota, Colombia.
He used to live in La Colombianita with his son and his wife.

Bogota, Colombia.
Carlos, a 35 year old recycler of the streets of Bogota, Colombia.
He used to live in La Colombianita with his son and his wife.

Puerto Antioquia, Choco, Colombia.
The Red Cross Netherlands visiting an Embera community in Puerto Antioquia, Choco, Colombia.

Bojaya, Choco, Colombia.
Little girl with skin infections caused by parasites in the tropical forests of Nortwestern Colombia, Choco, Colombia

Bogota, Colombia.
Student protests usually ending with fights. Molotov cocktails from the students against the tanks of the ESMAD and tear gas grenades and rubber bullets from the anti riot squad. In 2006 a student got killed by rubber bullet which passed through his eye into the brain. - To close this window please click on Info again.

Bogota, Colombia.
Student protests usually ending with fights. Molotov cocktails from the students against the tanks of the ESMAD and tear gas grenades and rubber bullets from the anti riot squad. In 2006 a student got killed by rubber bullet which passed through his eye into the brain. - To close this window please click on Info again.