It is water that receives us in the Bajo Atrato region for our first trip to the area after five months. We had just spent three days in Dabeiba and that was just the beginning of our journey. Continue reading Waters of Hope Amid War
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A Long Journey Towards New Life
When the motor boat left the Turbo port to cross the Gulf of Urabá, I couldn’t stop thinking about the people who, almost 20 years ago, were starting a journey to return to their lands. Lands they had been displaced from in 1997, during the Genesis operation.1 Continue reading A Long Journey Towards New Life
Between dry land and the ocean
Curbaradó and Jiguamiandó
Challenges continue for the return of stolen land
First, the communities of Curbaradó and Jiguamiandó,[1] located in the municipality of Carmen del Darién, department of Chocó, were victims of forced displacement. Continue reading Curbaradó and Jiguamiandó