Parts of Colombia are isolated, with no hospitals nearby. Experts say midwives can help bridge the healthcare gap.

BOGOTA — Colombia's Senate approved a law Wednesday to ban female genital mutilation (FGM), a practice that persists in some of the country's Indigenous communities, after two years of debate. The ...

In the coffee-growing mountains of the Risaralda department in western Colombia, ancestral territory of the Embera Chami and Katio peoples, genital mutilation affects hundreds of girls. [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 community in Colombia's coffee-growing ...

Francia Giraldo, an Embera leader, said some babies bleed to death and are never taken to hospital. Parents receive neither birth nor death certificates. Their mothers, she said, "bury them" straight ...