indigenous people

The Bogotá Ministry of Health have sent a Muisca nurse to Suba, in the north of Bogotá, Colombia, to check on the local indigenous population..
PAHO/Karen González Abril

News in Brief 24 September 2020

24 September 2020
News in Brief
  • UN chief’s concern for mariners’ ‘humanitarian and safety’ crisis  
  • Flooding adds new danger to communities fleeing Sahel violence 
  • Colombia’s indigenous peoples ‘on threshold of genocide’ 
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3'11"
Families from Cotzal Quiché weave typical costumes as part of a project supported by UN Guatemala.
UN Guatemala/Hector Delgado

‘Wisdom’ of Guatemala’s indigenous people needed for sustainable development: A UN Resident Coordinator blog

30 August 2020
SDGs

The wisdom and knowledge of indigenous people in Guatemala is central to the realization of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals or SDGs, targets agreed by countries around the world to end poverty, maintain peace and preserve the health of the planet. In this blog, the UN Resident Coordinator in Guatemala Rebeca Arias Flores explains how sustainable development is not new, but simply a new name that draws on ancient wisdom that is renewed with each generation of indigenous people. 

Grain silos in Beirut's port were destroyed by the explosion.
UNIFIL

News in Brief 6 August 2020

6 August 2020
News in Brief
  • Lifesaving WHO aid arrives in Beirut
  • Nuclear arms ban essential, 75 years post-Hiroshima
  • Indigenous more at risk: UN chief
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4'3"
Women walk in the street in La Paz, Bolivia.
ILO/R. Lord

‘Spectre of poverty’ hangs over tribes and indigenous groups: UN labour agency

3 February 2020
SDGs

Indigenous and tribal communities are around three times more likely to face extreme poverty than others with women “consistently at the bottom of all social and economic indicators”, UN labour experts said on Monday.