Colombia represents the most severe humanitarian crisis in the Western Hemisphere, and worldwide it is only second to Sudan. Plagued by a more then five decades long internal conflict, the country counts over 4 million internally displaced people; that is 10% of its entire population. These are individuals and families who have been uprooted from their land, and stripped of their rights. Though both international and national law protects them on paper, the everyday life experience of the majority is that of rightless people. They join the great number of the wretched and the dispossessed. Last summer, I took some notes while visiting an internally displaced camp in Bogota.