With more than four million internally displaced Colombians—an average of more than a quarter of a million people annually in recent years—and a million more forced to flee across national borders in search of safety, Colombia now ranks just behind Sudan in the numbers of people displaced by the conflict. The conflict has had a differential impact on the population, however. Women, youth, Afro-Colombians, and indigenous communities have been disproportionately affected by the conflict and by the displacement it causes.

This panel will look at the gendered dimensions of Colombia’s internal armed conflict and the specific impacts that conflict violence has had on Colombian women. 

*For more information about this event, please visit http://www.usip.org/events/displacement-in-colombia.

*Please contact Janene Sawers (jsawers@usip.org) with any additional questions about registration.