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 ...

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 ...

MOCOA, Colombia—The wall outside the small airport in Puerto Assis, in the state of Putumayo in the Colombian Amazon, is adorned with a mural depicting five women’s faces. This and Putumayo’s five ...

As a baby, Elisa Fernández Sánchez’ mother would place her into the bow of the canoe and glide across the murky waters of the ...

BOGOTA, Colombia, April 22 (UNHCR) - Indigenous groups in Colombia are in danger of disappearing amid the country's continuing conflict, warned the UN refugee agency today as it joined a mission to ...

Two indigenous leaders have been killed in Colombia in under 24 hours, officials said Saturday, as a rights group warned aboriginals have increasingly been targeted since the country's right-wing ...

CABO DE LA VELA, Colombia — 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, ...

Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. For more than a decade, two Indigenous communities deep in ...

CALI, Colombia (AP) — Delegates came to an agreement late Friday at the United Nations conference on biodiversity to establish a subsidiary body that will include Indigenous peoples in future talks ...