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Companies pursuing renewable energy development in Colombia must work with Indigenous communities

Colombia is vying for a place in the global race to produce renewable energy. One desert region on its Caribbean coast is ...

Dreams Travel With the Wind review – communing with the spirits to preserve Indigenous culture in Colombia

This intensely personal film follows Colombian director Inti Jacanamijoy’s grandfather to the ancestral lands of the Wayuu people ...
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Urban sprawl and illegal mining reshape a fragile Amazon frontier

Beneath the rising sun, people from nearby Indigenous communities navigate across the Vaupés River in traditional wooden ...
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Colombia takes regional lead in Indigenous self-government, raising hopes for Amazon protection

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 ...
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Colombia’s indigenous activists protect the environment. Now they too are under threat

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 ...
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In Colombia, Indigenous youth seek to protect land. They have to escape violence to do it

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 ...
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UN warns of 'ongoing tragedy' as Indigenous groups in Colombia face extinction

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 ...
UNHCR

Colombia: Indigenous groups badly affected by conflict

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 ...
UNHCR

Colombia's support for UN Declaration on Indigenous People welcomed

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 ...
Mongabay

Photos: Colombia’s Indigenous Nasa push back against cultural loss to reconnect with nature

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 ...