In “Jaidë,” or “House of Spirits,” the Colombian photographer Santiago Mesa documents a remote people facing a rash of youth ...

The Embera, a Colombian indigenous group, have vowed to stop practicing female genital mutilation (FGM), reports El Tiempo. Two years ago the Embera decided to suspend the practice and research its ...

BOGOTA, Columbia – “When I was 9 years old, my mother told me that three of her sisters died because her grandmother practiced female genital mutilation (FGM),” says Patricia Tobon Yagarí, an Emberá ...

Since the 2007 death of a newborn Embera girl from an infection following FGM, Colombian authorities and the UNFPA have been working with Embera communities in the western Risaralda province to ...

In Colombia, there are indigenous communities that still practice female genital mutilation, also known as female circumcision. This makes Colombia the only country in Latin America where this custom ...

RÍO BAUDÓ, Colombia, April 10 (UNHCR) - More than 2,000 indigenous Embera people have fled their collective territory in the jungles of north-west Colombia since the arrival there a month ago of a ...

Irene Guasiruma says her grandmother told her women who had not been "cut" would make bad wives Irene Guasiruma is a member of the Embera indigenous group, the second largest in Colombia. A midwife ...