Nearly 40,000 indigenous people are being affected by a “famine” in Colombia’s arid northern state of La Guajira, an issue exacerbated by the closure of the nearby Venezuelan border, according…
A decision by Colombia’s Constitutional Court will open the door for indigenous individuals convicted of crimes to serve their prison sentences within their respective communities and not in ordinary prison, local media reported…
Colombia’s government said Wednesday that land lost during armed conflicts would be returned to indigenous groups, beginning with the Embera Katio in the northwest of the country.
Female genital mutilation continues to exist in more of Colombia’s indigenous territories than previously thought, the United Nations said Wednesday.
Colombia’s state council has ordered a tourist ban on spots in the northern Tayrona national park that are considered sacred by local indigenous tribes, reported news website CM&.
Colombia’s government “lacks the will” to protect its indigenous people, an indigenous leader said on Thursday.
Colombia’s national government, Australian miner BHP Billiton and communities living near the Cerro Matoso mine in the north of the country have signed an “act of understanding” to curb ongoing tensions over…
A study into the well-being of the children of Colombia’s ethnic minority groups has found that 70% of the country’s indigenous children are chronically malnourished and one in four children…
Indigenous organizers have reached a “historic” 25-point agreement with the government over territorial and human rights, granting Colombia’s native communities increased judicial, administrative and political autonomy, among other terms.