Members of an indigenous community have blocked a major interdepartmental road linking Antioquia and Choco for two days, protesting a lack of health care. The road between the departmental capital…
The Embera, a Colombian indigenous group, have vowed to stop practicing female genital mutilation (FGM), reports El Tiempo. Two years ago the Embera decided to suspend the practice and research…
Nearly 1,650 members of the Siapidara clan of the Embera indigenous group, displaced from their native lands by armed conflict in 2008, plan to return home. The group took the…
Half of the children of the indigenous Embera Katio and Embera Chami communities die of hunger and lack access to adequate health care services, said indigenous leader Martin Ciagama on…
Indigenous communties in Antioquia are subject to harrassment by guerrillas and other illigal armed groups, the local indigenous organization denounced Wednesday. In an report by the newspaper El Colombia, William…