Bogota, Colombia – Late last month, 25-year-old Indigenous leader Yermy Chocue was found dead near her home in Morales, in the Colombian department of Cauca. The young woman, a prominent human ...

In early February, in downtown Bogotá, Colombia, Luis Alfredo Acosta recited a line in a book from memory: “I am from the ...

BOGOTÁ, Colombia — While music played in Bogotá’s streets and a sense of victory filled the air after a long protest, Ana Graciela received a new appointment on her calendar: the funeral of ...

The Associated Press. Thousands of Indigenous people in Colombia pressure government over violence and land disputes. Posted: August 28, 2024 | Last updated: August 28, 2024 ...

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.

Indigenous environmental interpreter Alvaro Pai Pai walks at the El Gran Sabalo Indigenous Reservation near El Diviso, Narino department, Colombia, on Aug. 31, 2024.

A UAE-coordinated law enforcement operation targeting environmental crime in the Amazon Basin has led to 94 arrests and the ...

Colombian Peasants Are Taking on an Irish Multinational— and Being Met With Violence Indigenous leaders protesting cardboard packaging giant Smurfit Kappa Group face threats and retaliation ...

On June 24, 26 fishing families living near the lakes and rivers around Barrancabermeja were forcibly displaced. They were ...

Calamar, a town of 11,000 inhabitants in Guaviare, a jungle region in southeastern Colombia, is in the heart of one of these ...

Colombia’s Indigenous Guard has long had to fight for a space in the national narrative. ... But violence persists, with old and new groups battling for territorial control.

Ecuador’s parliament has passed a law allowing private companies to help manage protected areas, prompting backlash from ...