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Title	Colombia: Whether Colombians who have lived abroad for a long time and adults who left Colombia as minors are at risk if they return to their homeland; the kinds of risks they might face; whether their return could represent a threat to members of their families and if so, what kind of threat their families would face and from whom
Publisher	Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Country	Colombia
Publication Date	13 March 2009
Citation / Document Symbol	COL103019.E
Cite as	Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, Colombia: Whether Colombians who have lived abroad for a long time and adults who left Colombia as minors are at risk if they return to their homeland; the kinds of risks they might face; whether their return could represent a threat to members of their families and if so, what kind of threat their families would face and from whom, 13 March 2009, COL103019.E, available at: http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/4a7040a5c.html [accessed 23 November 2009]

Colombia: Whether Colombians who have lived abroad for a long time and adults who left Colombia as minors are at risk if they return to their homeland; the kinds of risks they might face; whether their return could represent a threat to members of their families and if so, what kind of threat their families would face and from whom

Information on whether Colombians who have lived abroad for a long time and adults who left Colombia as minors are at risk if they return to their homeland; the kinds of risks they might face; whether their return could represent a threat to members of their families and if so, what kind of threat their families would face and from whom could not be found among the sources consulted by the Research Directorate.

This Response was prepared after researching publicly accessible information currently available to the Research Directorate within time constraints. This Response is not, and does not purport to be, conclusive as to the merit of any particular claim for refugee protection. Please find below the list of sources consulted in researching this Information Request.

Sources consulted

Oral sources: The Consultoría para los Derechos humanos y el desplazamiento (CODHES), the Comité Permanente por la Defensa de los Derechos Humanos (CPDH), the Fundación Seguridad y Democracia, the Instituto de Derechos Humanos y Relaciones Internacionales "Alfredo Vázquez Carrizosa" de la Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, the Instituto de Estudios para el Desarrollo y la Paz (INDEPAZ), the International Organization for Migration, the Fundación Seguridad y Democracia, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) did not provide information within the time constraints of this Response.

Internet sites, including: Agencia EFE, Bogota Daily, European Country of Origin Information Network (ecoi.net), El Tiempo (Bogota), Factiva, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Ministerio del Interior y de Justicia de Colombia, ReliefWeb.

Topics: Returnees, Returnees,

Copyright notice: This document is published with the permission of the copyright holder and producer Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (IRB). The original version of this document may be found on the offical website of the IRB at http://www.irb-cisr.gc.ca/en/. Documents earlier than 2003 may be found only on Refworld.

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