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Colombia signed the Convention on the Rights of the Child in 1989 and later ratified the CRC on September 2, 1990. [1] Internally issues related to children are mostly under the Instituto Colombiano de Bienestar Familiar, or the ICBF, which is translated as the Colombian Institute for Family Welfare. The average school-leaving age in Colombia ...
Children's rights in Colombia This page was last edited on 6 October 2016, at 18:42 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 ...
Many aspects of Colombian culture can be traced back to the early culture of Spain of the 16th century and its collision with Colombia's native civilizations (see: Muisca, Tayrona). The Spanish brought Catholicism , the feudal encomienda system, and a caste system that favored European descendants.
Members of Colombia's congress attend the opening of the new session in Bogota, Colombia July 20, 2024. ... Child marriage remains a widespread practice worldwide and affects around 12 million ...
Afro-Colombian children. Women making traditional fruit baskets. In the 1970s, there was a major influx of Afro-Colombians into urban areas in search of greater economic and social opportunities for their children. This led to an increase in the number of urban poor in the marginal areas of big cities like Cali, Medellín, and Bogotá. Most ...
News of the miracle rescue of four children stranded in the Amazon rainforest brought relief to millions following the case. But their challenges continue as they reel from the physical and ...
Four Colombian Indigenous children who survived a plane crash in the country's Amazon region and lived for more than five weeks in the jungle have been released from hospital after a 34-day stay ...
Kogi woman and child on one of the terraces at Ciudad Perdida, Colombia (2017) ... The Kogi base their lifestyles on their belief in "Aluna" or "The Great Mother ...