International human rights group Amnesty International (AI) wrote an open letter to the Colombian presidential candidates on Wednesday, asking them to make human rights a top priority in their campaigns,…
Representatives of Colombia’s indigenous Wiwa community, based in the Sierra Nevada mountain range, met last weekend to discuss the increasing risk posed by illegal armed groups active in the area,…
The Wiwa indigenous community, of which many had to leave their native lands surrounding the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta region during the forced mass displacements of 2004-2006, continue to…
A Colombian judge has ordered the release of indigenous leader Feliciano Valencia, who was arrested Saturday for his role in the 2008 capture and whipping of a Colombian soldier on…
Colombian Defense Minister Gabriel Silva said Friday that the death of nine Ecuadorians in a suspected FARC attack near the Colombia-Ecuador border on Wednesday is evidence that the rebel group…
Amnesty International’s criticism of the Colombian government’s failure to protect indigenous citizens ignores the work the Uribe administration has done to guarantee indigenous rights, Interior and Justice Minister Fabio Valencia Cossio…
Leaders of an indigenous Wayuu community in the northern Colombian municipality of Riohacha are calling for human rights abuses committed by police against the community in January to be investigated,…
Ombudsman Volmar Perez on Wednesday expressed his concern over the displacement of approximately 300 indigenous Colombians in the southern department of Nariño. Perez confirmed that 60 indigenous families from the…
Indigenous authorities Friday denounced the attempted assassination of an indigenous leader from the Yanacona community in the southern Colombian department of Cauca. Former Yanacona governor and current advisor to the…