Colombia: Undecided Land Claims in Colombia Put Slave Descendants at Risk, Study Says

Jan 17, 2018 | Anastasia Moloney, Reuters
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Hundreds of land claims by Afro-Colombians sitting unresolved, some for over a decade, put those communities in danger of being driven off their land by business interests, according to new research. Efforts by the government to award collective land titles have largely overlooked claims by Colombians of African descent whose families arrived as slaves, said researchers at Javeriana University in Bogota.