In another major decision, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights has ruled the nation of Colombia violated the rights of the U’wa Indigenous people by authorizing oil, gas and mining projects ...

Colombia will allow Indigenous, rural and other minority communities to form renewable energy generator and commercialization projects and develop joint ventures with private companies or the ...

The human rights ombudsmen of Colombia and Ecuador on Tuesday launched a joint alert system to prevent abuses by illegal armed groups from affecting Awa Indigenous communities that live along 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 ...

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 ...

Colombia’s interior minister announced Wednesday that the government has asked the country’s constitutional court to examine plans to guarantee the rights of indigenous peoples. Minister German Vargas ...

A girl from the indigenous group the Arhuaco in Colombia. Photo by: Rhett A. Butler. The indigenous peoples of the Colombian Amazon have faced centuries of abuse, exploitation, and land-grabbing ...

In Colombia, Indigenous, peasant and Afro-descendant groups have escalated land occupations in recent months, seeking to ensure the government carries out long-standing land redistribution promises.

Colombian indigenous people of the Nasa ethnic group are transported on the roof of a local transport vehicle in Toribio, Colombia, on Oct. 3. (LUIS ROBAYO/Agence France-Presse via Getty Images ...

To mark World Indigenous Day tomorrow, ( Wednesday) UNHCR in Colombia will call on all armed groups in the country to keep the country's indigenous population out of the armed conflict and respect the ...

Confrontations between Indigenous Guard land defenders and FARC rebel dissidents are escalating, ... Nearly 150 activists killed in Colombia in 2021: Rights ombudsman list 3 of 3 ...

BOGOTÁ — The year 2021 marks 30 years since Colombia adopted its current Constitution. Considered the Magna Carta of the laws of the nation, it was established in 1991 by a national assembly ...