Afro-Colombian Photography Exhibition in Bogota
Twenty strikingly black and white stills will be on display in Bogota until Monday. Colombian and Spanish photographers Juan Carlos Barrero and Alvaro Ybarra Zavala are exhibiting 20 images they…
Twenty strikingly black and white stills will be on display in Bogota until Monday. Colombian and Spanish photographers Juan Carlos Barrero and Alvaro Ybarra Zavala are exhibiting 20 images they…
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…
A Colombian soldier has killed one member of an indigenous community and injured two others in Cauca, southwest Colombia, various local media reported Thursday. Members of the army were apparently…
Criminal groups have caused massive forced displacements in three communities in Colombia, according to government welfare group Accion Social. Hundreds of people have been forced to flee their homes in…
Iguanas, slider turtles and giant rodents are some of the strange creatures being smuggled through Colombia to be made into traditional Easter meals. Carolina Rangel, from the confiscated animal centre…
The Indigenous Organization of Antioquia (OIA) has denounced murders and harm to indigenous community members that have occurred over the past two weeks, Caracol Radio reported Wednesday. The most recent…
The OAS Mission to Support the Peace Process (MAPP/OEA) condemned on Thursday the assassination of an indigenous leader and requested Colombian authorities to clarify circumstances surrounding the matter. Through an…
Colombian NGOs have condemned the “high level” of violence against black, indigenous and poor women in a country where the female body has become a “battleground”, W Radio reported Friday.…
Indigenous communities in the southwest Colombian department of Cauca find themselves in the middle of increasingly heated battles between national forces and the FARC, according to an indigenous association press…