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The establishment of a Pan-American highway through the rain forest to connect Colombia and Panama(Plan Pacifico) threatens extreme ecological damage. Afro-Colombian and indigenous communities are banding together to oppose the plan.

This article details the ever growing issue of indigenous leaders being assassinated.

The Colombian Army discriminates against indians and calls them possible guerilla collaborators.

The Nukak fight for survival against outside diseases such as the flu.

This article details the Indigenous peoples and their protest in Colombia for human rights and and control over their own territories.

10 reasons why the Armed Movement "Manuel Quintin Lame" abandoned its guns.

Three indians elected the the ANC help give a voice to the 600,000 Indians of Colombia.

A 6.3 earthquake destroyed communities in northern Colombia killing hundreds and injuring thousands. Government aid to survivors is slow, SAIIC is asking for aid to send to those in need while thinking not only of the immediate need but those of the…

Indigenous leaders in Colombia have been under attack and subject to disappearances, torture, arbitrary detention, and even murder due to their struggle for rights granted to them in the Constitution.

Eulalia Yagarf Gonzalez. a Chami woman activist in Colombia. was elected as a member of the
regional parliament of Antioquia on March 8. 1992. In this interview she discussesf her life and hardships as an Indian woman activist.

The Colombian army is harassing the CRIC.

The Venezuelan government continues to deny the right of self-liberation, self-determination, and self-management to the indigenous peoples of Venezuela.