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MITU, COLOMBIA, August 12 (UNHCR) - In a distant corner of Colombia on the border with Brazil, the department of Vaupes is home to 27 different indigenous groups, each with a different culture and ...
News Colombia » Vaupes » Culture: Bajo Cauca and Vaupés: Colombia’s Child Recruitment Hotspots
As in the darkest days of Colombia’s civil conflict, armed groups across the country continue to enlist and exploit teenagers. In this, the first of a three-part investigation by InSight Crime about ...
News Colombia » Vaupes » Culture: Vaupés River contamination identified near rapidly expanding Amazonian town
VAUPÉS, COLOMBIA — Traditionally, for members of the Indigenous Macaquiño community in the southeastern Colombian Amazon, the Vaupés River is not just a source of water, but a living being that must ...
News Colombia » Vaupes » Culture: Vaupés River contamination identified near rapidly expanding Amazonian town
Indigenous people who live downstream from a rapidly expanding Amazonian town on the banks of the Vaupés River told Mongabay the river is contaminated by sewage and has made people sick. To verify ...