San José, Dec 20, 2024 (AFP) - Inter-American Court rules Colombia drilling violated native rights

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The Inter-American Court of Human Rights ruled Friday that Colombia had violated the rights of the U'wa Indigenous people by authorizing oil, gas and mining projects on their ancestral lands. The Costa Rica-based court criticized the Colombian state's authorization of seven resource extraction projects in and around an U'wa reservation created in 1999 in the Sierra Nevada del Cocuy region in the country's northeast. Since 2000, members of the com......

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