CABO DE LA VELA, Colombia (AP) — Giant wind turbines tower over a cemetery sacred to Zoyla Velasquez and her Indigenous Wayuu community, native to the La Guajira region in northern Colombia. This arid ...

LAS DELICIAS, Colombia — 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 ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. CABO DE LA VELA, Colombia (AP) — Giant wind ...

Colombian Indigenous leader José Albino Cañas Ramírez was recently shot and killed. Indigenous authorities believe he was targeted for his work defending the forest.

BOGOTA, Colombia, August 9 (UNHCR) - Until 1988 the outside world knew nothing of the existence of the Nukak, a small tribe of nomadic hunter-gatherers who have lived in the vast rainforests of ...

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 ...

CALDONO, Colombia — When Patricia Elago Zetty’s 13-year-old son went missing in Colombia’s conflict-ridden southwest, she didn’t hesitate. Elago and five fellow members of the Indigenous Guard trekked ...

Alberto Franco* has long lost count of how many times he has had to hide in the forest until the gunfire dies down. The southern Colombian forest where he grew up has been a battlefield for decades.

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 ...

CALDONO, Colombia — When Patricia Elago Zetty's 13-year-old son went missing in Colombia's conflict-ridden southwest, she didn't hesitate. Elago and five fellow members of the Indigenous Guard trekked ...