A recent Colombian law lets some women walk free from prison – but resuming life is not easy
The law allows female heads of households to serve their sentences outside of prison, in exchange for unpaid community ...
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Indigenous migrants in northern Colombia battle worsening droughts and floods
Standing next to her makeshift home of scrap metal, wood and plastic tarp, 47-year-old Nelly Mengual recounts how severe flooding and winds tore off her roof a few months ago, leaving her knee ...
The Independent26d
Indigenous resistance stalls Colombia's potential renewable energy boom in La Guajira
native to the La Guajira region in northern Colombia. This arid, wind-swept region, dotted with cacti and roaming herds of goats, holds immense potential to position Colombia as a wind and solar ...
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Renewable energy ambitions in northern Colombia collide with Indigenous worries
CABO DE LA VELA, Colombia (AP) — Giant wind turbines tower over a cemetery sacred to Zoyla Velasquez and her Indigenous Wayuu community, native to the La Guajira region in northern Colombia.
The Ecologist11d
The wisdom of Indigenous conservation
We must learn from Indigenous communities if we want to deploy the best strategies for stopping climate and biodiversity ...
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Indigenous migrants in northern Colombia battle worsening droughts and floods
She lives in an informal settlement on the outskirts of Riohacha, in northern Colombia’s arid, wind-swept region, where thousands of other Wayuu people, native to the La Guajira region spanning ...
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Indigenous resistance stalls Colombia's potential renewable energy boom in La Guajira
CABO DE LA VELA, Colombia (AP) — Giant wind turbines tower over a cemetery sacred to Zoyla Velasquez and her Indigenous Wayuu community, native to the La Guajira region in northern Colombia.