Female genital mutilation has long been commonplace among Colombia’s Emberá people, yet secrecy and speculation has shrouded the tradition. Now the country is belatedly awakening to the possible ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On the Río Chagres motorized wooden boats are the only means of transport. Make this trip to Panama's Emberá people, and you ...

An indigenous woman with her two children, who were traveling through the Seventh race in the vicinity of the Enrique Olaya Herrera National Park, were run over by a taxi driver who, due to these ...

BOGOTA, Columbia – “When I was 9 years old, my mother told me that three of her sisters died because her grandmother practiced female genital mutilation (FGM),” says Patricia Tobon Yagarí, an Emberá ...

BOGOTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The taboo surrounding female genital mutilation (FGM) among Colombia's Embera indigenous tribe, the only tribe in Latin America known to carry out the practice, ...

COLOMBIA has reached an agreement with the guerilla group National Liberation Army (ELN) on Sunday to allow the indigenous Embera community to return to their lands. The talks with the ELN, Colombia’s ...