Indigenous situation in Colombia.

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Indigenous situation in Colombia.

One of the most delicate landscapes is experienced by indigenous peoples Nukak Makú, Jiw, Tukano and Sikuani, settled in the department of Guaviare.

This situation is due to the presence of irregular armed actors, illicit crops in the reservations, displacements and murders associated with the armed confrontations that these indigenous peoples are experiencing in the context of the armed conflict.

There are 87 identified indigenous peoples living in Colombia, who speak 64 Amerindian languages and are distributed, according to the 2005 census, in 710 reservations located throughout 27 departments of the country.

Indigenous people represent 3.4% of the total Colombian population. They are one of the human groups most vulnerable to violence and to one of its direct effects: internal displacement.

According to official figures, approximately 2% of the total of people displaced from the country belong to an indigenous ethnic group.

For UNHCR it is essential protect indigenous peoples and make sure they have access to protection.

About 2% of the displaced population total belongs to indigenous peoples (according to official figures).

Between 2005 and 2010, 52,521 people were displaced belonging to Indigenous Peoples (according to official figures as of December 2010).

The most affected departments: Guaviare, Caquetá, Arauca, Norte de Santander, Magdalena, Meta, Guainía, Vaupés and Putumayo.

“The situation of human rights of indigenous peoples in Colombia continues to be extremely serious, critical and deeply disturbing, despite recognition constitutional of these rights ” noted as its main conclusion the Permanent Forum of the UN.

Violence and other crimes as well such as forced displacement and Confinement threatens the physical and cultural survival of the indigenous peoples of Colombia.

Among the main causes of displacement of these communities are find the territorial disputes between armed groups, threats against life and physical integrity, the invasion of dispossessed territories for legal and illegal crops.

More than 90% of the population located in the Putumayo department lives in extreme poverty.

According to the National Indigenous Organization of Colombia, in 2010, 122 indigenous people were murdered, 10 disappeared and 1,146 were forced to displace.

This year, the indigenous people that have suffered the greatest and profound effects due to the armed conflict is the Nasa (Cauca) people, which reached a total of 45 indigenous people killed in 2010, followed by the Awá (Nariño and Putumayo) with 25 indigenous people. murdered.

Indigenous peoples and nationalities are one of the groups that most suffer the impact of the Colombian internal armed conflict inside and outside from the country

facing serious threats to their autonomy, to their systems of self-government, its territory, its processes of ordering nature-culture relations and its dynamics of construction of cultural identity.