FILE - People maneuver by boat through the low water levels of a tributary that connects with the Amazon River, in Isla de la Fantasia, on the outskirts of Leticia, Colombia, Oct. 20, 2024. (AP ...

UNHCR welcomes Colombia's decision to support to the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People as a significant step forward in efforts to protect indigenous groups in the context ...

LAS DELICIAS, Colombia (AP) — Adriana Pazu wiped away tears as she remembered a colleague who was shot dead earlier this year by an armed dissident group for defending their land. Pazu, an Indigenous ...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in Colombia Scott Campbell gives an interview in Bogota, Colombia, Tuesday, April 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara) BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — The United Nations ...

Carlos Andrés Ascué Tumbo, a 30-year-old Indigenous land guardian and educator, was the 115th social leader killed in Colombia this year. He served as a member of the Kiwe Thegnas (or Indigenous Guard ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Ofelia Opocué, a Nasa elder, was forced to leave her community in southwestern Colombia 23 years ago, and is now reviving her culture by creating ...

This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. 9 December 2005 The armed conflict in ...

Fighting against climate change is often a matter of who controls the territory. In the indigenous reservation of Tacueyó in Colombia’s southwestern department of Cauca, that is the role of the ...

Colombia this week took a leading position in Latin America for Indigenous rights and forest protection by formalizing Indigenous local governments across swaths of the Amazon, raising hopes that ...

BOGOTA, Colombia — The United Nations human rights office in Colombia warned Tuesday that five Indigenous groups in a storied mountain range face “physical and cultural” extinction, a critical threat ...