In the mountains of southwestern Colombia, hundreds of Indigenous guards who protect their lands from crime are debating how ...

The former rebels are accused of abuses such as torture, murder and the displacement of Indigenous leaders.

Thousands of indigenous people demonstrated in southwestern Colombia on Monday demanding an end to violence, on the day commemorating Christopher Columbus’s arrival in the Americas. Clashes also broke ...

Colombia's transitional justice system has charged 10 former members of the rebel Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia with ...

The Colombia population is about 53.4 million in 2026. A guide to its age, cities, Indigenous and Afro-Colombian groups and Venezuelan migrants.

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Mongabay interviewed Marino Peña, a prominent Indigenous leader from Colombia’s Putumayo region, to hear his take on the incoming government’s ...

Colombia’s Constitutional Court has ruled that a carbon project developer violated the fundamental rights of an Indigenous community in the Colombian Amazon by failing to ensure ...

Who are Colombia people? Census data, regional identities, family customs, the estrato system and what US visitors should ...

Rosendo Quira silently shakes a medicinal plant to attract a condor to the bait. The bird of prey glides through the clouds over Colombia towards a mountain pass some 3,200 meters above the sea. As ...

A group of indigenous leaders traveled to Washington last month to propose legislation that would grant them access to a currently inaccessible river, leaving them without a water source and with mass ...

When it comes to managing parks in Colombia, Utria park manager Henry Pinzoón Benavides points out that people "need to be just as much a part of the parks as the park rangers need to be part of the ...