With the production of messages and video adds as part of an awareness campaign on sexual violence against indigenous girls and women, with Terre des Hommes National Coordination in Colombia and its chapters in Switzerland and Lausanne; Humanas Colombia, center for studies and political action for the promotion and defense of the human rights of […]
In Akubadaura we commemorate the International Indigenous Peoples Day and the Colombian Indigenous Peoples Week with voices from different parts of the country and Latin America. As stated by the United Nations, in order to “publicize the needs of these population groups, every August 9 the International Day of Indigenous Peoples is commemorated in recognition […]
With the images and voices of women from the Emberá Chamí, Dobida and Katío peoples in the Chocó province in Colombia, Akubadaura launches a campaign to prevent violence against indigenous women. The campaign messages were created by the women of these communities themselves. Using the slogan: “To safeguard indigenous women is to safeguard the territory”, […]
Bogotá C.D. Colombia, July 3, 2020. Cases of sexual violence against girls and women, where perpetrators of the crime are members of the Colombian Armed Forces, have been growing. According to the Conflict Observatory, “between 2006-2016 a higher number of cases associated with the military was registered, with 90 acts of sexual violence”, and between […]
Bogotá DC, Colombia – Lima, Peru, June 25, 2020. Within the call for contributions to the Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples of the United Nations for the report on the impact of the pandemic on indigenous peoples to be presented to the UN General Assembly next October, the Colombian National Indigenous […]