Sharing a border with Ecuador and Peru, the southern Colombian department of Putumayo takes its name from the Quechua term for “gushing river.” For some, its landscapes are a sacred doorway to the ...
LA GUAÑA, Ecuador, 14 August (UNHCR) - The Awa are an indigenous people who straddle the Ecuador-Colombia border but do not feel part of the modern societies on either side. That has not saved them ...
Colombia this week took a leading position in Latin America for Indigenous rights and forest protection by formalizing Indigenous local governments across swaths of the Amazon, raising hopes that ...
Colombian Indigenous leader José Albino Cañas Ramírez was recently shot and killed. Indigenous authorities believe he was targeted for his work defending the forest.
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — The United Nations human rights office in Colombia warned Tuesday that five Indigenous groups in a storied mountain range face "physical and cultural" extinction, a critical ...
CALOTO, Colombia (AP) — Indigenous Nasa children are gently splashed with water using a leafy branch — a ritual meant to protect them and symbolically “open the path” — before setting off with wooden ...
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Young Indigenous leaders in Colombia's violent Cauca gather to resist violence and elect new voices
Adriana Pazu wiped away tears as she remembered a colleague who was shot dead earlier this year by an armed dissident group for defending their land. Pazu, an Indigenous authority from the Nasa ...
List of Illustrations; List of Contributors; Preface Acknowledgement;s Introduction Alexandra Tomaselli & Claire Wright; Part I Defining Prior Consultation 1. Indigenous Peoples' Contributions to ...
This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. 8 August 2006 To mark World Indigenous ...
This story is part of the Environmental Defenders series, Latin America Bureau and Global Voices. In the Magüí Reservation in Nariño, Colombia, a group of 90 women, men, children, and adolescents are ...
FILE - People maneuver by boat through the low water levels of a tributary that connects with the Amazon River, in Isla de la Fantasia, on the outskirts of Leticia, Colombia, Oct. 20, 2024. (AP ...
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