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 ...

In 2014, Colombia’s environmental licensing authority granted the local subsidiary of Canada’s Gran Tierra Energy a permit to prospect for oil in Villagarzón municipality, in the Amazonian department ...

The origins of female genital mutilation in Colombia are unclear, with an NGO saying it is the only country in Latin America ...

Violent dispute between Misak and Nasa communities erupts in rural municipality of Silvia, a region historically plagued by illegal drug cultivation and territorial control battles | Anadolu ...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — 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 ...

CALOTO, Colombia (AP) — Indigenous Nasa children are gently splashed with water using a leafy branch — a ritual meant to protect them and symbolically “open the path” — before setting off with wooden ...

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 ...

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. 24 April 2009 UNHCR welcomes ...

Germany has returned two sacred masks, bought from the indigenous Kogi people of Colombia, to the country’s leader. German president Frank-Walter Steinmeier called the move “part of a rethink of the ...