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In 2010, 3.4% of the children under 5 years old in Colombia suffer from global malnutrition (deficiency of weight for age) and up to 13% suffer from chronic malnutrition (deficiency of height for age). The situation is worse for the indigenous peoples of Colombia, who in the same indicators recorded rates of 7.5% and 29.5% respectively. [7]
Poor people in a horse-drawn buggy collect trash in a lower-middle-class neighborhood in Bogotá. There have always been marked distinctions of social class in Colombia, although twentieth-century economic development has increased social mobility to some extent. Distinctions are based on wealth, social status, and race.
Colombia is widely referred to as the most dangerous country in the world to be a trade unionist. [ 31 ] [ 32 ] [ 33 ] The 2011 Annual Survey of Violation of Trade Union Rights published by the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) reports that 49 trade unionists were killed in Colombia in 2010, more than in the rest of the world put ...
Social movements in Colombia (1 C) P. Prostitution in Colombia (1 C, 1 P) Pages in category "Social issues in Colombia" This category contains only the following page.
Before assuming power, on August 7, 2022, Petro began to use Twitter very actively to make announcements and issue positions on current issues in Colombia. But, as president he has used the social ...
The 2019–2020 Colombian protests were a collection of protests that began on 21 November 2019. [2] Hundreds of thousands of Colombians demonstrated for various reasons. Some protested against income inequality, corruption, police brutality and various proposed economic and political reforms proposed by the government of Iván Duque Márquez, others against the few violent protestors and in ...
More than 80 people were killed in the country’s northeast over the weekend following the government’s failed attempts to hold peace talks with the National Liberation Army, a Colombian ...
He slaps a 25% tariff on Colombian goods and imposes a raft of visa restrictions. Latin American nations are grappling with how to deal with Trump on his signature issue.