Female genital mutilation has long been commonplace among Colombia’s Emberá people, yet secrecy and speculation has shrouded the tradition. Now the country is belatedly awakening to the possible ...

BOGOTA, Columbia – “When I was 9 years old, my mother told me that three of her sisters died because her grandmother practiced female genital mutilation (FGM),” says Patricia Tobon Yagarí, an Emberá ...

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 ...

BOGOTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The taboo surrounding female genital mutilation (FGM) among Colombia's Embera indigenous tribe, the only tribe in Latin America known to carry out the practice, ...

DARIEN NATIONAL PARK, Panama - The best example of what sets the Between Two Seas voyage apart from a typical cruise comes on day four, when the passengers step from motorized rubber rafts onto the ...

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 ...