US EditionUN warns of ‘ongoing tragedy’ as Indigenous groups in Colombia face extinction
- On Tuesday, the UN’s human rights division in Colombia highlighted the urgent risk of physical and cultural disappearance faced by five Indigenous communities in the Sierra Nevada region.
- The warning follows ongoing armed conflict over territory linked to drug trafficking and illicit economic activities, combined with inadequate state protection.
- The affected groups—Kogui, Wiwa, Kankuamo, Arhuaco, and Ette Naka—total about 54,700 people, many of whom have been forcibly displaced amid violence and disappearances.
- Scott Campbell, Colombia’s UN human rights representative, described the situation as a persistent crisis that must be addressed to prevent the physical and cultural disappearance of Indigenous Peoples, emphasizing the severe impacts on their land, governance, and spiritual life.
- Scott Campbell called on authorities in Colombia to safeguard Indigenous communities in the Sierra Nevada by combining military measures with enhanced access to healthcare, education, and job opportunities.
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UN warns of 'ongoing tragedy' as Indigenous groups in Colombia face extinction
The United Nations human rights office in Colombia says that five Indigenous groups in northern Colombia’s storied mountain range face “physical and cultural” extinction.
UN Commisioner Warns of Extinction Risk for Indigenous Groups in Colombia’s Sierra Nevada - teleSUR English
Their physical and cultural extinction risk is a tragedy that we can and must prevent, Campbell said. On Tuesday, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights representative in Colombia, Scott Campbell, warned of the risk of extinction facing five Indigenous peoples of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta due to the presence of illegal armed groups. RELATED: Indepaz Denounces the Murder of Social Leader Zuleima Mosquera in Cauca, Colombia: 64 Social …
The United Nations (UN) called for preventing the physical extinction of the indigenous peoples of the Sierra Nevada in Santa Marta in the face of the situation of violence. Scott Campbell, a representative of the UN in Colombia, said that indigenous groups “suffer cruel and diverse attacks by non-State armed groups, with devastating consequences on their lives, their land, their territory, their own government, their self-determination, their c…
The UN representative in Colombia says that from 2022 until today there is “an increase in territorial violence” in the region of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta. The representative in Colombia of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Scott Campbell, warned of the “real” risk of the “physical and cultural extinction” of five indigenous peoples of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, because of the presence of illegal armed groups. “The risk o…
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