By Rene Wadlow Monday, December 10, 2012, 10:35am Our age which has often been so cruel, can now pride itself on having witnessed the birth of a universal human rights movement. In all walks of life brave individuals are standing up for their brothers who have been...
Indigenous Peoples
Threats Against Cauca Indigenous Communities Continue
September 2012 - We reported in July on the Nasa indigenous mobilization to collectively evict armed groups from their territories in the southwestern Cauca department. In dramatic actions, unarmed Nasa indigenous guards carried soldiers from a post on a sacred site,...
Open Letter to the Armed Groups Operating in Cauca
By FOR Colombia Thursday, March 29, 2012, 7:26pm Regional Indigenous Council of Cauca Popoyán, March 6, 2012 As a popular saying goes, there is nobody deafer than one who does not want to hear, and nobody blinder than one who does not want to see. It has been a...