OECD: Probe Colombia's inaction on indigenous hunger crisis

Expand A house in a rural Wayuu community in La Guajira, Colombia, June 2016. © 2016 Human Rights Watch Amelia sat on a bench outside her one-room straw-roofed hut knitting a handbag while her toddler grandsons played nearby in the dirt. They were skinny, and itchy-looking red rashes spread up their arms. “They spend days without eating,” said Amelia. She told me she sold the colorful bags she knits for the equivalent of five US dollars each—though they are sold for as much as $50 online. But such handicrafts don’t go far to alleviate the dire malnutrition suffered by the Wayuu, Colombia’s…

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