“We Must Ask for What Is Already Ours” Afro-descendant Women and Access to Land in Alto Mira y Frontera, Colombia

Jul 27, 2023 | Juliana Nnoko-Mewanu
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Afro-descendant communities have a right under Colombian law to collective land. However, in practice, communities have long faced significant challenges in exercising this right, including in obtaining title, and in using and benefiting from collective land, including already titled land. Perhaps the single most important challenge to communities’ access to land has been violence associated with Colombia’s decades-long internal armed conflict, which has displaced millions and continues to impact many.