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This report describes the impacts on young people devastated by the culture of crime and violence in Colombia: including displacement; health; education; gender based violence; trafficking and exploitation; landmines and unexploded ordnance (UXO).

Guerrilla groups, paramilitaries, government armed forces and national police all perpetrate violence and abuses against civilians, including children and adolescents. The report directs specific recommendations to various organizations, governments and the UN. These include:

• Guerrilla and Paramilitarygroups must end killings and maiming of children and all civilians, torture, mutilation of cadavers, sexual violence, death threats and intimidation and indiscriminate use of weapons
• the government of Colombiamust immediately halt all support or tolerance for paramilitary units, police and security forces carrying out atrocities against civilians, including cessation of all logistical and technical support
• the United Nations Security Council should include the conflict in Colombia on the agenda of the Security Council as an urgent matter of international peace and security, based on its regional implications and its severe, life threatening impact on children
• donorsshould fully fund the UN’s Consolidated Appeal for Humanitarian Assistance in Colombia, with special attention to programs supporting children’s security and rights
the U.S. governmentshould redirect military funding related to the wars on drugs and terrorism in Colombia to programs that protect children, including those related to health, education, HIV/AIDS awareness and testing, landmine awareness; and those for particularly vulnerable children, including street children and children forced into sex work

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