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News · 12 Oct. 2026October 12, Day of Indigenous Resistance: who we are and where we come from
News · 8 Oct. 2026The President of ACIMVIP carries the voice of the Inga People to the Parliament of Canada
News · 4 Oct. 2026Women from San Miguel de la Castellana, Blasiaku and Kausadiru met at the Cabildo Nukanchipa Taita Kausadiru to work on leadership and community organizational strengthening
News · 27 Sep. 2026Thought minga of the Wasikamas with the community of the Inga Resguardo of Wasipungo at the Cabildo House in Villagarzón
News · 26 Sep. 2026Community workshop «Strengthening new leaderships with a gender and protection approach» in Villagarzón
News · 26 Sep. 2026Reserves and communities of ACIMVIP
News · 25 Sep. 2026Muiuri: six children's songs to strengthen the Inga language
News · 23 Sep. 2026Muiuri: the children's circle-song series that revives the language and ancestral knowledge of the Inga People and the Awá People
News · 23 Sep. 2026The Superior Court of Mocoa ruled on the OZIP's appeal in the tutela action concerning the Area of Environmental Interest of Mocoa
News · 18 Sep. 2026ACIMVIP and the Nukanchipa Alpa Amukunapa Wasi Reservation appeal the tutela ruling on the Putumayo REDD+ Project
News · 17 Sep. 2026Self-government structure of the Inga People of Villagarzón: highest bodies, authorities, functions and founding documents
News · 11 Sep. 2026Inga Indigenous Resguardo of Albania: cattle management, seedling planting and messages from the community
News · 29 Aug. 2026Dialogue space of the Inga People of Putumayo on territorial defense and mining projects
News · 26 Aug. 20262026 Life Plan of the Albania Inga Indigenous Reservation, «Alli iuiarispa purisunchi nukanchipa alpamami»
News · 5 Aug. 2026Gran Tierra Energy leaves Colombia and the consultation on the closure of the La Cabaña APE is still pending
News · 20 Jul. 2026The authorities of the seven Indigenous Peoples of Villagarzón agree on and endorse the intercultural basic health teams
News · 17 Jun. 2026Colectivo Raíces: sustainable use of timber and native seeds for handicrafts, Inga Reservation of Albania
News · 30 May 2026In memory of Juan Pedro Jacanamejoy
News · 26 Mar. 2026Cultural practices and biodiversity of the ancestral territory
News · 25 Mar. 2026Traditional music of the Inga community of San Miguel de la Castellana, with the knowledge keeper Héctor Jacanamejoy
News · 24 Mar. 2026Song in Inga by students of IERBI Atún Ñambi, Resguardo San Miguel de la Castellana
News · 22 Mar. 2026Trajectory of the Vishsiasunchi Nukanchipa Alpa Mamata Collective
News · 17 Mar. 2026Minga of thought with allies at the OPIAC headquarters, in Bogotá
News · 6 Mar. 2026Eight Inga communities close the Life Plans project with a ceremony
News · 25 Feb. 2026Physical handover of the El Rincón property to the Inga community of Calenturas
News · 10 Nov. 2025The President of ACIMVIP brings the voice of the Andean Amazon to COP30
News · 25 Oct. 2025Mandate No. 01 of the Territorial Thought Minga of the Nukanchipa Alpa Amukunapa Wasi Indigenous Reservation, on carbon markets
News · 10 Sep. 2025Living memory of the Inga territory: origin, struggle and future of ACIMVIP
News · 18 Aug. 2025Plunder: Canadian companies in Colombia, episode 1: the disregard for the territories of Indigenous Peoples
News · 5 Aug. 2025Characterization walk of the ancestral territory of the Inga Indigenous Resguardo of Albania
News · 26 May 2025Video «Nukanchipa Kusikui» by Mi Jota Producciones, with the Inga Reservations of Blasiaku and San Miguel de la Castellana and the Inga Cabildo Cachiacu Andaki
News · 23 May 2025Territory of the Inga Indigenous Resguardo of Albania: voices of women knowledge keepers and a walk along the stream and forest
News · 21 May 2025Greeting to the traditional healer and Indigenous leader Kalustulinda
News · 1 Apr. 2025ACIMVIP 2025: institutional video on the work of the Inga communities of Villagarzón
News · 1 Apr. 2025Amazonian seed-keeping families: video on the Sachamuyu plant and the recovery of native seeds
News · 18 Mar. 2025Yagé: taking the medicine for territorial protection
News · 18 Mar. 2025ACIMVIP: resisting stigmatisation for defending our culture
News · 14 Mar. 2025Guardians of the Amazon: how Inga women lead the defense of their territory
News · 4 Mar. 2025Celebration of Atun Puncha «Great Day» in the Inga Resguardo of Blasiaku
News · 2 Mar. 2025Atun Puncha 2025: the carnival of the Inga People returned to the streets of Villagarzón
News · 4 Jan. 2025Internal rules of the Albania Inga Indigenous Reservation
News · 1 Jan. 2025Authorities and community members of the Inga Reservation of Wasipungo speak about the importance of their ancestral territory
News · 7 Dec. 2024Presentation of the Internal Regulation of the Self-Government Mandate of the Nukanchipa Alpa Amukunapa Wasi Resguardo
News · 5 Dec. 2024Ten Inga communities renew their authorities for 2025
News · 10 Nov. 2024Prior consultation on Ruta al Sur with the Musu Waira Cabildo (Indigenous traditional authority): agreement-drafting and formalization sessions
News · 27 Oct. 2024Recovery of iraca palm in the Inga Indigenous Resguardo of Albania, with support from UNDP, Climate Promise and BESNet
News · 2 Oct. 2024Oil spill pollutes the Danta Iaku stream in the Inga Resguardo of Wasipungo
News · 2 Oct. 2024Crude oil spill at the Costayaco 3 well in Villagarzón attributed to unknown persons
News · 21 Aug. 2024The Inga community of Villagarzón commemorates in San Miguel de la Castellana the fourth anniversary of the passing of Robinson López, leader of the Inga People of ACIMVIP
News · 22 Jul. 2024The CNTI, ODTPI and OPIAC meet at ACIMVIP's house of thought
News · 21 Jul. 2024Resguardo Inga Wasipungo: the story where tradition meets technology – Ep.22 2024
News · 27 Jun. 2024Tutela ruling orders the ANT to advance the territorial expansion of the Inga Reservation of Calenturas
News · 4 May 2024The Inga People update the Suma Kausangapa Mandate
News · 27 Apr. 2024Closing minga of thought of the project «Baitawami kincharirkani» at Iuiai Wasi
News · 8 Feb. 2024Invitation from the President of ACIMVIP to the communities of the Inga People of Villagarzón to Atun Puncha 2024
News · 22 Dec. 2023Amended bylaws of the Association of Indigenous Cabildos of the Municipality of Villagarzón, Putumayo (ACIMVIP)
News · 11 Dec. 2023Sumak Kawsay video tour: Comprehensive Improvement Plan of the Resguardo Blasiaku
News · 10 Dec. 2023Five Inga communities elect their authorities in December 2023
News · 3 Dec. 2023ACIMVIP condemns the murder of Fhanor Guazaquillo, authority of the Nasa People
News · 2 Dec. 2023Closing minga of the Safeguard Plan of the Inga People of Villagarzón at Iuiai Wasi, ACIMVIP's headquarters (2 and 3 December 2023)
News · 1 Dec. 2023ACIMVIP mourns the passing of Manuel Carlosama Ocoguaje, leader of the Siona People and former president of ACIPS
News · 1 Dec. 2023Booklets of the Safeguard Plan and of knowledge for the defense of the ancestral territory
News · 29 Nov. 2023ACIMVIP mourns the passing of Jhoana Guacan, defender of the Amazon from the Cabildo Musu Waira Sacha Nucanchipa
News · 21 Nov. 2023Social mapping mingas with Amazonía Mía at the Cabildo Atun Taita Ambi Upiadiru Indigenous, the Inga Indigenous Reserve of Blasiaku and the Cabildo Musu Waira Sacha Nucanchipa (November 2023)
News · 20 Oct. 2023Ruta al Sur: the Nariño Court ruling and the prior consultation coordination meetings
News · 25 Sep. 2023Launch of the territorial governance project with Amazonía Mía and Sacha Muiu
News · 6 Jul. 2023The struggle of ACIMVIP: Sacha Muiu and the protection of the territory
News · 26 May 2023Sacha Muiu, moriche plant: eight Inga communities produce canangucha oil
News · 16 May 2023Minga of thought in the Inga Indigenous Resguardo of Albania
News · 15 May 2023Minga of thought in the Cabildo Cachiacu Andaki, part of the Inga Indigenous Resguardo of Nukanchipa Alpa Amukunapa Wasi
News · 14 May 2023Minga of thought in the Inga Indigenous Resguardo of San Miguel de la Castellana
News · 13 May 2023Minga of thought in the Inga Indigenous Resguardo of Blasiaku
News · 12 May 2023Minga of thought in the Cabildo Nukanchipa Taita Kausadiru, part of the Inga Indigenous Resguardo of Nukanchipa Alpa Amukunapa Wasi
News · 27 Apr. 2023Presentation of the Inga People's accreditation process before the Special Jurisdiction for Peace
News · 1 Mar. 2023Mocoa, water heart of the Amazon
News · 27 Feb. 2023Digital security workshop in Villagarzón with ACIMVIP
News · 20 Feb. 2023Carnival of Forgiveness of the Inga People in Wasipungo
News · 2 Feb. 2023Inauguration of the first Sacha Muiu Amazonian fruit processing plant
News · 2 Feb. 2023Handover of the Sacha Muiu canangucha processing plant
News · 29 Jan. 2023Oil company withdraws from project in Indigenous Ancestral Territory while the National Authority for Prior Consultation continues to violate the fundamental rights of the Inga People
News · 17 Jan. 2023The Inga: the Indigenous People the State made invisible before the oil company Gran Tierra Energy
News · 28 Dec. 2022Inga Women: Knowledge and Their Own Knowledge Systems
News · 6 Dec. 2022Dance to taita yagé by the Inga community of San Miguel de la Castellana
News · 1 Dec. 2022The 15 Indigenous Peoples of Putumayo build the Amazonian proposal for the National Development Plan 2022-2026 at ACIMVIP's house of thought
News · 30 Nov. 2022The Ancestral Territory Nukanchipa Alpa Amukunapa Wasi Vida Maskarigridiru protected by the Inga Indigenous People: overview
News · 18 Nov. 2022II Suma Iuiai Nukanchipa Alpamanda Forum: thinking beautifully for our territory
News · 28 Oct. 2022First harmonization ceremony of the project «Baitawami kincharirkani» in Alto Alguacil, Resguardo Chaluayaco
News · 17 Oct. 2022Infographic of the Ancestral Territory Nukanchipa Alpa Amukunapa Wasi Vida Maskarigridiru
News · 13 Oct. 2022Motion of censure against the director of the National Authority for Prior Consultation at session 4 of 2022 of the Permanent Roundtable for Agreement of Putumayo
News · 1 Oct. 2022The Indigenous pillar of Visión Amazonía follows up on ACIMVIP's projects in Villagarzón
News · 1 Oct. 2022IV Political Summit of the Indigenous Peoples of Putumayo at the Indigenous house of Orito
News · 1 Oct. 2022Patrol of the Wasikamas through the Inga Indigenous Reserve of Nukanchipa Alpa Amukunapa Wasi, where the rivers rise
News · 20 Sep. 2022Presentation of ACIMVIP's report to the Special Jurisdiction for Peace
News · 25 Jul. 2022ACIMVIP presents the project «Baitawami kincharirkani» to the communities at Iuiai Wasi
News · 6 Jun. 2022The Norwegian Fund amplifies the voice of Ginny Medina, environmental defender of ACIMVIP
News · 1 Jun. 2022The Norwegian Human Rights Fund highlights the environmental defense of ACIMVIP's Wasikamas among the experiences of defenders around the world
News · 1 May 2022Inga People celebrates the oil company's departure from its territory but fears not being consulted on future projects
News · 19 Apr. 2022How the State made the Inga People invisible before the oil company Gran Tierra Energy
News · 5 Mar. 2022Panel: Experiences from the front line. The environmental defenders who change the world
News · 3 Feb. 2022Workshop-minga in Chaluayaco: collective drafting of the Resguardo's internal regulations
News · 14 Jan. 2022Workshop-minga on own justice, own government and law of origin at the ACIMVIP headquarters
News · 1 Jan. 2022Ancestral strategies for the protection and care of the territory: strengthening the Wasikamas
News · 1 Jan. 20222022 Comprehensive Life Plan of the Chaluayaco Inga Indigenous Reservation
News · 1 Jan. 2022Teachings of the Inga People of Chaluayaco, grounded in the Law of Origin, on their own justice and governance institutions
News · 20 Dec. 2021Autonomous Mandate on Free, Prior and Informed Consultation and Consent of the Inga People of Villagarzón
News · 19 Dec. 2021Unified Suma Kausangapa Mandate of the Elders «Nukanchipa Iuiai, Nukanchipa Kausai» of the San Miguel de la Castellana Indigenous Reservation
News · 13 Dec. 2021The struggle of Indigenous and Afro-descendant peoples to protect a river from oil pollution
News · 13 Dec. 2021The Inga People and the defense of rivers against extractive projects
News · 13 Dec. 2021The legal proceedings of the Inga People against the Ministry of the Interior over prior consultation on the San Vicente River
News · 1 Dec. 2021Internal rules of the Musu Waira Sacha Nucanchipa Minor Cabildo, Nukanchipa Alpa Amukunapa Wasi Inga Reservation
News · 30 Nov. 2021The Inga of Villagarzón defend their ancestral territory against oil extraction
News · 26 Nov. 2021Strengthening of the Wasikamas, Inga Indigenous Guard of ACIMVIP
News · 11 Nov. 2021Closing of the CNTI accompaniment in Chaluayaco: strengthening the Indigenous Caretakers of the Colombian Amazon
News · 1 Nov. 2021One-week tour with the CNTI in the Chaluayaco Inga Resguardo to strengthen the caretakers of the territory
News · 1 Nov. 2021Visit of the Observatory of Territorial Rights to Chaluayaco: the land of fish
News · 23 Oct. 2021Territorial walk drill and second protection workshop in San Miguel de la Castellana
News · 1 Oct. 20214th ACIMVIP Intercultural Gathering — National Cultural Concertation Program
News · 25 Sep. 2021Protection workshops at the Resguardo San Miguel de la Castellana
News · 25 Sep. 2021Workshop on the route of guarantees and legal protection in the Resguardo San Miguel de la Castellana
News · 4 Sep. 2021Mandate of the Women, Chaskis, Warmiwasikamas and Caretakers of the Ancestral Territory of the Inga Indigenous People
News · 17 Aug. 2021The CNTI accompanies Inga communities and authorities of Villagarzón in territorial defense and prior consultation
News · 23 Jul. 2021Second knowledge exchange: training on the prevention, response and reporting protocol
News · 21 Jul. 2021Knowledge exchange on ancestral protection strategies at ACIMVIP's headquarters
News · 1 Jul. 2021Nukanchipa Rimai, our mother tongue: memory and strengthening of our Inga language
News · 1 Jul. 2021Instruments of the protocol for the prevention of, response to and reporting of human rights violations against the Inga People
News · 1 Jul. 2021Forms annexed to the protocol for the prevention of, response to and reporting of human rights violations
News · 1 Jul. 2021Human rights case documentation form
News · 1 Jul. 2021Urgent action form of the ACIMVIP Human Rights Coordination
News · 29 Jun. 2021I Suma Iuiai Nukanchipa Alpamanda Forum: training of the Inga People's Wasikamas in rights, environment and territory
News · 1 Jun. 2021Statement: support for the National Strike and request for high-level dialogue
News · 1 Jun. 2021Statement 005 of the Andean-Amazonian Regional Strike Committee
News · 16 May 2021The Inga People of Villagarzón remain in a peaceful Minga of Resistance in support of the National Strike
News · 14 Apr. 2021Amazonian Indigenous Peoples want no more oil projects
News · 1 Apr. 2021Inga Indigenous Guard in the spiritual harmonization prior to the entry of the commissions into Villagarzón
News · 1 Mar. 2021Report on the verification visit to the APE La Cabaña (PUT-1)
News · 1 Mar. 2021Verification visit to PUT-1 APE La Cabaña — Inga Territory
News · 1 Mar. 2021The Inga People of Villagarzón requests the accompaniment of the Procurator's Office in the verification visit to APE La Cabaña ordered in tutela 2015-00559
News · 28 Jan. 2021Kusikui Puncha: Carnival of Forgiveness and Reconciliation — Resguardo Chaluayaco
News · 21 Jan. 2021The Inga Indigenous Reserve of Albania supports higher education for its young people with an own-economy strategy
News · 14 Jan. 2021Project of the Inga community of the Chaluayaco Reservation on traditional knowledge and the COVID-19 pandemic
News · 1 Jan. 2021Video: Consultation during a pandemic? Between a rock and a hard place
News · 1 Jan. 2021The wise woman María Mutumbajoy Sigindioy returns to the bosom of the earth
News · 1 Jan. 2021The Inga People of Villagarzón advances in the expansion of ACIMVIP's headquarters
News · 1 Jan. 2021Luz Dary Cuarán in the documentary «La Gran Juntanza: Crónica de un país en resistencia»
News · 1 Jan. 202130 Wasikamas graduated after months of work in the environmental defense of the territory
News · 1 Jan. 2021Early warning form for risk events against the Inga People
News · 1 Jan. 2021Booklet on territorial and environmental defense based on the knowledge and spiritual wisdom of Inga women
News · 20 Dec. 2020Election of the 2021 board of the Cabildo of the Inga Indigenous Reserve of Nukanchipa Alpa Amukunapa Wasi
News · 1 Dec. 2020The Norwegian Human Rights Fund expands its support to civil society organizations in Colombia
News · 6 Nov. 2020Case intake form of the National Human Rights Commission of Indigenous Peoples
News · 1 Nov. 2020Maskai Kusikuspa Samaringapa: youth and authorities at a cultural concertation event
News · 21 Aug. 2020Tribute to Robinson López, leader of the Inga People of ACIMVIP
News · 26 May 2020The APE La Cabaña case, Block PUT 1: violations of the Inga People's rights analyzed from a legal perspective
News · 13 Mar. 2020ACIMVIP rejects anonymous pamphlets and demands guarantees for the Nukanchipa Alpa Amukunapa Wasi Resguardo
News · 4 Feb. 2020The Inga Indigenous People halt the oil company Gran Tierra Energy in Putumayo
News · 20 Jan. 2020Members of the Inga Resguardo of Calenturas, in Putumayo, claimed the 3,066 hectares of their territory
News · 1 Jan. 2020History of the Ancestral Territory Nukanchipa Alpa Amukunapa: titling since 1994, GPS surveys in 2009 and establishment of the reservation in 2020
News · 6 Nov. 2019Colombia: the endless wait of the Inga People
News · 1 Sep. 2019Internal rules of the Cachiacu Andaki community, belonging to the Nukanchipa Alpa Amukunapa Wasi Inga Indigenous Reservation
News · 6 Apr. 2019Robinson López, former president of ACIMVIP, demands high-level dialogue from the Government with the Minga of the Indigenous Peoples of Putumayo
News · 14 Aug. 2018San Miguel de La Castellana demands protection against oil exploitation
News · 1 Jan. 2018Ancestral territory Nukanchipa Alpa Amukunapa Wasi of the Inga People: video by the Territorial Governance group of the Universidad Externado, with Robinson López, former president of ACIMVIP
News · 13 Dec. 2017The CDDHHPPI supports the tutela action of Robinson López, former president of ACIMVIP, regarding the special peace electoral districts
News · 29 Mar. 2017Video: memory of Contribution Contract 104 between ICBF and ACIMVIP
News · 7 Mar. 2017Robinson López, former president of ACIMVIP, takes part in COICA's annual meeting with the presidents of nine countries
News · 23 Feb. 2017Robinson López, former president of ACIMVIP, speaks at the International Forum on free, prior and informed consultation and consent
News · 5 Aug. 2016Your lands, your rights, chapter 60: land restitution for the Inga People in Putumayo
News · 12 Jul. 2016Video presentation of the Inga People of Villagarzón, Putumayo: marches, territory and the demand for respect of their rights
News · 31 May 2016Community Educational Project of the Atun Ñambi Inga Bilingual Rural Ethno-educational Institution
News · 31 May 2016Expedición Bio in Putumayo postponed over controversy with the Inga People
News · 1 May 2016The Alexander von Humboldt Institute and Colciencias violate the fundamental right to prior consultation of the Inga People of Villagarzón, in Putumayo
News · 14 Feb. 2016Bylaws of the Association of Indigenous Cabildos of the Municipality of Villagarzón, Putumayo (ACIMVIP), 2016
News · 5 Dec. 2015Mandate of the Elders Suma Kausangapa
News · 19 Nov. 2015Robinson López, former president of ACIMVIP, presents the problems of prior consultation on a panel
News · 9 Nov. 2015ACIMVIP: institutional strengthening, self-government and territorial defense in ten Inga communities of Villagarzón
News · 15 Jul. 2015Administrative Court of Nariño protects the prior consultation rights of the Inga People of Villagarzón and Puerto Caicedo
News · 15 Jul. 2015The Inga People of Villagarzón win the tutela action on prior consultation in the APE La Cabaña case, Block PUT-1
News · 21 Apr. 2015ACIMVIP denounces before the UN the violation of the prior consultation and autonomy of the Inga People of Villagarzón
News · 10 Apr. 2015The Inga People of Villagarzón denounce the Churuco exploratory drilling project
News · 9 Apr. 2015Statement of the Inga People against Directive 10 of 2013 and the proportionality test in the prior consultation for the Churuco block
News · 19 Mar. 2015First thought minga of the prior consultation for the Alguacil 3D seismic project, Block PUT
News · 17 Mar. 2015Musu Waira sacred sites: documentary on two natural salt licks of the Inga People
News · 17 Mar. 2015ACIMVIP denounces the violation of the Inga People's prior consultation over the La Cabaña well, in Block PUT 1
News · 23 Jan. 2015Government Mandate (Resolution 002)
News · 25 Sep. 2014Appropriation and boundary marking of the eastern limit of the ancestral territory Nukanchipa Alpa Amukunapa Wasi using traditional methods
News · 28 Mar. 20143rd Intercultural Gathering of Indigenous Peoples in Villagarzón, Putumayo
News · 1 Feb. 2014Strengthening Inga and Awá self-government: drafting the internal regulations in Villagarzón
News · 1 Jun. 2013ACIMVIP 2013-2024 strategic plan of the Inga People of Villagarzón
News · 15 Apr. 2013Prior consultation process for the Alguacil 3D seismic project
News · 15 Apr. 2013Impacts on the prior consultation process for the Alguacil 3D seismic project in Villagarzón
News · 1 Feb. 2013Safeguard Plan of the Inga People: assessment and general guidelines