Colombia has taken a major step in Indigenous rights by formally recognizing Indigenous councils as local governments across parts of the Amazon.

Colombia this week took a leading position in Latin America for Indigenous rights and forest protection by formalizing ...

Sharing a border with Ecuador and Peru, the southern Colombian department of Putumayo takes its name from the Quechua term for “gushing river.” For some, its landscapes are a sacred doorway to the ...

The United Nations human rights office in Colombia says that five Indigenous groups in northern Colombia’s storied mountain ...

British Columbia’s Ministry of Environment and Parks announced April 24 the closure of Joffre Lakes Park so indigenous people ...

A team of scientists analyzed the DNA of human remains approximately 6,000 years old found in Colombia. The results have been published in the journal Science Advances and show that human groups ...

A new study in Panama found that entrusting forests to Indigenous inhabitants may be a more effective conservation strategy ...

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 ...

Scott Campbell, Colombia’s representative for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, said in a statement that the risk of physical and cultural extinction of Indigenous People of the Sierra ...

“We celebrate this victory for the Indigenous Peoples of Colombia,” she said. “Sadly, the Peruvian government has been walking in the opposite direction — passing laws that affect ...

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