Aug
07
2015
Reparation of indigenous communities
The United Nations General Assembly established that 9th of August be the date to strengthen international cooperation aimed to solve the problems faced by the indigenous peoples in terms of human rights, environment, development, education, and health.
Bogotá, D.C.›Bogotá, D.C.
The United Nations General Assembly established that 9th of August be the date to strengthen international cooperation aimed to solve the problems faced by the indigenous peoples in terms of human rights, environment, development, education, and health.
Indigenous peoples are highly diverse: more than 5.000 groups in 90 countries. They are around 370 million people (more than 5% of world population), but they are very vulnerable as well. In Colombia, there are around 100 indigenous peoples.
Aware of the situation, the Victims Unit is carrying out actions to comprehensively repair this population. According to Julia Madariaga, director of Ethnic Affairs in the Victims Unit, ‘the evaluation is excellent in spite of all the challenges of repairing in the middle of the armed conflict to communities who have been excluded for years. We have reached to peoples like the Kankuamo, Chimila or Etenaca, to an important part of the Embera, Nasa and Wayuu peoples.’