Colombia has taken a major step in Indigenous rights by formally recognizing Indigenous councils as local governments across ...

Sharing a border with Ecuador and Peru, the southern Colombian department of Putumayo takes its name from the Quechua term ...

Diplomatic Courier’s Stephanie Gull brings you weekly under–the–radar stories from around the world. This week in the ...

Across South America, states only recognize and guarantee the rights of peoples in isolation whose presence has been ...

For years before becoming Pope Leo XIV — as a parish priest and then bishop in Peru — Robert Prevost built ties with ...

Across the Pan-Amazon region, communities who developed the bioeconomy concept centuries ago and practice it today still have ...

He and his wife, Crecencia López, don't know who the next pope will be, but they hope he's someone who shares Francis' ...

Deforestation in the Amazon is closing in around isolated communities, many of which lack official recognition by governments ...