AL JAZEERA: Rural Colombian groups seek help from new US gov’t amid violence

More than 100 Colombian human rights associations from remote Afro-Colombian and Indigenous communities have written to the new US administration to ask for help with the continued violence and killings they face.

Leaders of indigenous communities mobilised in October to reject massacres and assassinations of social leaders. Photo: Steven Grattan

Leaders of indigenous communities mobilised in October to reject massacres and assassinations of social leaders. Photo: Steven Grattan