Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On the Río Chagres motorized wooden boats are the only means of transport. Make this trip to Panama's Emberá people, and you ...

To the preppies and the slackers and the bluebloods and the rednecks and the crabbers and wharf rats and mongers and moochers and drinkers and dancers on Washington's waterfront this week, add one ...

RÍO BAUDÓ, Colombia, April 10 (UNHCR) - More than 2,000 indigenous Embera people have fled their collective territory in the jungles of north-west Colombia since the arrival there a month ago of a ...

Members of the Embera-Wounnaan tribe taking migrants on a boat through the Darien Gap in Panama. Todd Bensman METETI, Panama — Not far from this small town, the 19,000-mile-long Pan-American Highway ...

BOGOTA, Sept 17 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - For the past two months, Felicia Bitokayo from Colombia's indigenous Embera tribe has been sheltering from the rain and the cold Bogota nights with only ...

Panama is a meeting point and a "mosaic of cultures," where the country's cultures coexist, maintaining their own values, beliefs and principles as well as their identity. There are seven indigenous ...

Pueblo Rico (Colombia) (AFP) – Alejandrina Guasorna did not discover until adulthood that she had been subjected to female genital mutilation (FGM) the day she was born in a remote Indigenous ...

Latin America is not a region where FGM is heavily practiced. In general, countries in the region do not have special laws on FGM but do have general laws on bodily harm and mutilation. FGM is however ...

A makeshift camp set up by Colombia's indigenous Embera people, Bogota, Colombia. Thomson Reuters Foundation/Anastasia Moloney Coronavirus is changing the world in unprecedented ways. Subscribe here ...

BOGOTA, Sept 17 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - For the past two months, Felicia Bitokayo from Colombia's indigenous Embera tribe has been sheltering from the rain and the cold Bogota nights with only ...