This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. 15 December 2006 In a landmark step ...

The island of Uggubseni, located in Panama’s Guna Yala provincial-level Indigenous region, spent the month of February participating in region-wide celebrations to mark the centenary of a revolution ...

ÑÜRÜM, Panama — Isidrio Hernandez-Ruiz has a soft spot for the bright yellow flowers of the guayacan trumpet tree (Tabebuia guayacan), a native species that blooms across Panama each spring. It’s one ...

Chief Zarco’s daughter Natalia Sarco works as an ecologist and bird-watching guide in Panama City’s Metropolitan National Park. The former Canal Zone’s 573-acre park was a site of the Albrook survival ...

Panama’s government faces mounting pressure to relocate more Indigenous Guna families from low-lying Caribbean islands as sea levels continue to rise, building on the 2024 move of over 1,200 residents ...

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro asks Rosa Montezuma about being the first indigenous woman to be crowned Miss Panama. The First Indigenous Miss Panama LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Panama is sending its first ...

As the 2025 rainy season peaks in Panama, the Guna Indigenous community of Ukupa, which was displaced by floods late last year, is still waiting for much-needed governmental support. After severe ...

Panama's indigenous Guna community are demanding US sports giant Nike withdraw its latest shoe over its "pirating" of a protected traditional design. Guna indigenous women from Panama wearing ...

In a landmark step this week, 42 Colombian asylum seekers became the first ever indigenous people to be recognised as refugees in Panama. The 42 belong to the Wounaan indigenous group who fled ...

Scientists from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute are collaborating with local communities in the Ngäbe-Buglé Comarca, a protected Indigenous territory, to foster a ground-up reforestation ...