In southern Colombia, a tribe of indigenous people, the Nasa Indians, have risen up after being caught in the crossfire of a government offensive against leftist guerrillas. In mid-July, hundreds of ...

SAN JOSE DEL GUAVIARE, Colombia, Sept 30 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - B orn into the last known nomadic tribe in Colombia, Joaquin Niijbe spent his boyhood roaming the jungle and hunting monkeys.

More than 18,000 children were shipped off to faraway schools in the late 19th and 20th centuries. Nearly 900 known deaths occurred in the 417 federal-run institutions, along with uncounted cases of ...

Colombia's Constitutional Court on Wednesday annulled a controversial carbon credit deal in the Amazon rainforest, which six local tribes said had been signed without their consent. Indigenous ...

SAN JOSE DEL GUAVIARE, Colombia, April 6 (UNHCR) - Most people forced to flee their homes believe that one day they will be able to return. But this no longer seems an option for most of Colombia's ...

SELVAS DE LIPA, Colombia, October 13 (UNHCR) - In the heart of the forest near Colombia's border with Venezuela, Spain's FC Barcelona is using football to teach life skills to young members of the ...

TIBU, Colombia (AP) -- Hundreds of Bari Indians, most clad in loincloths and carrying bows and arrows, came down from the hills in their first march ever Thursday to demand that the state-owned oil ...

Flora Growth Corp. FLGC entered into a joint venture agreement with Pharma Indigena Misak Manasr Sas, the largest indigenous tribe in Colombia, on the development of cultivation best practices, ...

The Pira Parana territory is host to 17 communities of six different tribes - Copyright GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA/AFP/File Andrew Harnik The Pira Parana territory is ...