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Elementos de contienda contra la impunidad del genocidio en Colombia

26 Mar 2021
La impunidad ha sido por años un mecanismo que permite que se repitan los ciclos de violencia en Colombia, y por lo tanto, acabarla puede ser un mecanismo eficaz para enfrentar las causas subyacentes de los ataques contra las comunidades y sus defensores de derechos humanos.

The Cañamomo Lomaprieta Reservation requires the immediate and definitive suspension of any activity related to the regulation of free, prior, and informed consultation

10 Feb 2021
The Resguardo Cañamomo Lomaprieta Indigenous Reserve urges national indigenous organisation ONIC and the Permanent Consensus Roundtable to immediately suspend of any activity and engagement related to the current process to amend national regulations on the right to Free, Prior and Informed Consultation and Consent

"Resistance": Video by the Emberá people of Colombia

03 Aug 2020
Right now, there is a rather complex situation... We have come from centuries of imposing a vision of the world, a vision of life at last, but also a discourse of hate against the indigenous peoples. What we find is a permanent denial of the State, of State institutions, with regards to the territorial law that we have. There are the interests of multinationals, and these businessmen and multinationals have been developing projects with the rights grated to them by the State.

"Resistencia": Video del pueblo Emberá, Colombia

03 Aug 2020
Veníamos de siglos de imponer una visión del mundo, una visión finalmente de la vida y también de un discurso de odio contra el indígena. Lo que encontramos es una negación permanente del Estado, de las instituciones del Estado frente al derecho territorial que tenemos. Hay intereses de multinacionales, proyectos que llevan desarrollando fundamentalmente con los derechos que... A estos empresarios o a estas multinacionales les genera el Estado.

"Territory": Video by the Emberá people of Colombia

03 Aug 2020
Cañamono Lomaprieta is an indigenous reserve of colonial origin, a 'resguardo' that has had a resistance for more than 500 years... [since] the whole process of colonisation began, of the entire continent, and towards the land of what is today Caldas. The colonisers arrived here very early as a result of all the gold.

"Territorio": Video del pueblo Emberá, Colombia

03 Aug 2020
El Resguardo Indígena Cañamomo Lomaprieta. es un resguardo de origen colonial, un resguardo que ha tenido una resistencia de más de 500 años... [desde que] empezó todo el proceso de colonización de todo el continente y hacia las tierras de hoy, de Caldas. Llegaron muy tempranamente los colonizadores, producto de las riquezas auríferas que hay allí.

"Mother Earth": Video by the Emberá people of Colombia

22 May 2020
Where there is an indigenous reserve or there are indigenous people, if there is no traditional medicine, it is all for nothing. If there is no traditional culture and traditional medicine [...] I believe that an indigenous reservation will have no strength. The territory is also very important, because indigenous people without territory are thrown into the air, into the space of capitalism, where one has no room for one's own life, but rather is at the mercy of the system of large-scale exploitation.