Spokesmen of of a week-long uprising of tens of thousands of small farmers and minorities in Colombia’s countryside called for international protection after three protesters were killed, more than 200 injured and 100 were…
The peace delegations of Colombia’s government and FARC rebels will meet with indigenous, black and gypsy minorities to discuss implications of a pending peace deal for these communities.
The Colombian Government has sent a commission of ministers to negotiate with leaders of ongoing indigenous and rural protests that have been blocking roads across the country.
Expanding agrarian and indigenous strikes hit at least half of Colombia’s 32 provinces Tuesday. Ignoring government warnings, protesters blocked important roads and even retained four soldiers.
Indigenous protests demanding government compliance to agreements made to end previously held strikes turned violent in west Colombia on Monday, leaving at least one dead and one injured. The most…
Colombia’s Prosecutor General and Inspector General on Monday called on the Supreme Court to overturn a decision to incarcerate one of the country’s most prominent indigenous leader for the detention of an…
An army sergeant and a corporal have been arrested for the murder of an indigenous governor in the southwest Colombia, local media reported Tuesday.
A group of indigenous have been attacked by a rancher’s 60-man private army in an attempt to remove them from land in northwest Colombia from where they had been displaced, local media reported.
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) ordered Colombia to take action against extreme poverty in northern Colombia where more than 4,000 indigenous children have died of malnutrition in the past eight years.