Since 2000, the U.S. has given more than $4 billion of your tax dollars in military and police aid to Colombia, despite repeated human rights abuses committed by the Colombian armed forces. U.S. aid has also supported the policy of aerial fumigations spraying Monsanto-made glyphosate herbicide over the Colombian countryside causing serious health and environmental effects while failing to curb the cocaine trade. Learn more about U.S. policy in Colombia and take action to support peace, human rights and non-military solutions to the armed conflict.

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Nearly one-third of Colombia's 102 indigenous nations are in danger of extinction because of the U.S.-supported internal armed conflict. In January 2009, Colombia's Constitutional Court issued a ruling, mandating the Colombian government to protect the country's indigenous nations. However, continual assassinations and massacres of indigenous people continue to be the modus operandi in Colombia. One illustrative example was the massacre of 12 Awá people in Nariño in August 2009. Only a couple weeks later, the U.S. Secretary of State certified Colombia in human rights, giving the green light for U.S. military aid to Colombia. Learn more about repeated violations against indigenous peoples in Colombia and take action to denounce ongoing massacres and to lobby for strong international human rights protections.

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The struggle for gender equality continues across the world, and the indigenous women's voice in the Americas is seldom heard. Learn more about ways in which women are organizing to support themselves and their children with cultural autonomy and dignity. Help support indigenous women's cooperative projects in Colombia and Mexico.

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