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KEY FINDINGS
- In Colombia in 2024, over 137,700 people were affected by confinement and over 137,800 by mobility restrictions nationwide. In 2025, between January–April, more than 70,400 people had been confined and more than 42,000 faced mobility restrictions (OCHA accessed 15/05/2025).
- Confinements primarily affect minority ethnic communities. Indigenous communities accounted for nearly 54,000 (39%) of people affected by confinement, while AfroColombians represented over 38,700 (28%) in 2024 (OCHA 03/02/2025).
- Confinement and mobility restrictions result directly from the actions of non-state armed groups (NSAGs), primarily driven by their desire for control over illegal economies (KII 16/05/2025; KII 14/05/2025). As such, the departments of Caquetá, Cauca, and Chocó represent geostrategic regions, particularly because of their coca cultivation and illegal mining of gold and platinum (PGN 27/12/2024; UNODC 18/10/2024).
- Confinements and mobility restrictions increase civilian protection risks, including child recruitment and use, homicides, threats, gender-based violence (GBV), and injury or death resulting from antipersonnel mines (APMs), other explosive ordnance (EO), and weaponised drones (KII 16/05/2025; UNHCR 27/03/2025; ICRC 27/03/2025).
- Indigenous and Afro-Colombian communities in remote areas face heightened needs during confinement or when affected by mobility restrictions, as traditional survival activities are disrupted, access to essential services (e.g. healthcare and education) is cut off or vastly restricted, and extortion demands further deplete the resources of communities already experiencing moderate to severe food insecurity (OCHA 07/05/2025; DANE 22/05/2025).