THE SITUATION OF ETHNIC GROUPS IN COLOMBIA

THE SITUATION OF ETHNIC GROUPS IN COLOMBIA

Colombia is a multiethnic and multicultural country and its own Political Constitution protects the

ethnic and cultural diversity by recognizing the right to equality and establishing

the obligation to promote the conditions for such equality to be real and effective in terms of the

situation of discriminated or marginalized groups.

Despite this normative recognition, ethnic groups are targets of violence

derived from the armed conflict, individually and collectively, which jeopardizes their autonomy and their

territorial and cultural rights. During 2010 the IACHR continued to receive information on the

situation of violence that particularly affects indigenous peoples and community councils and

Afro-descendant communities, in certain regions of the country.

Current risk of disappearance of numerous indigenous peoples.

Different indigenous organizations in Colombia have issued alerts about the risk of

physical and cultural extinction faced by numerous indigenous peoples of the country, due to the impact of

armed conflict, its low number of members, and poverty and its consequences. The organization

National Indigenous of Colombia, ONIC, launched in 2010 an international campaign for the survival of

Colombian indigenous peoples at risk of extinction.This protest is about the recognition in its entirety of the different ethnic groups of Colombia that feel excluded by the discrimination of the country towards them.

and therefore we want the people who see this blog to change their way of thinking about the different cultures and races of our country, and that above all they find equality in our country.