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The vision for the Amazon Pearl, created by the hundreds of families that live there, is beautiful: Live off the land in a sustainable way, while creating a professional future for youth through environmental education.

Colombia human rights update February 2021 Also in February, the United Nations released its 2020 human rights report on Colombia. Below is a summary of cases of human rights violations in February 2021.   Colombia’s human rights crisis continues to impact communities in many different parts of the country, with indigenous leaders, environmental activists and trade unionists, along with former combatants in the peace process, among those violently targeted in February. Fighting involving st...

Massacres and Killings of Social Leaders Impede Peace in Colombia Format by Gimena Sánchez-Garzoli In recent months, the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) has received various requests for the protection of social leaders and ethnic minorities, as well as human rights cases requiring intervention. These have surpassed our staff’s ability to act on all of them in our usual, expeditious manner. As such, we are constrained to publishing alerts in a parceled manner. Below are the first s...