San José, Costa Rica, December 20, 2024. – In the judgment notified today in the case U’wa Indigenous People and their Members v. Colombia, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights declared the international responsibility of the State of Colombia for violating the rights to collective property, political participation, access to information, participation in cultural life, a healthy environment, freedom of expression, freedom of assembly, self-determination of indigenous and tribal peoples, children’s rights, judicial guarantees, and judicial protection, to the detriment of the U’wa Indigenous People and their members.