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Josefina Klinger Zúñiga
Josefina Klinger Zúñiga is a Colombian environmentalist and community activist from Nuquí. She is the founder and director of the organization Mano Cambiada, which promotes sustainable tourism in the Chocó Department through a model of community self-management. Klinger Zúñiga received a Cafam Woman Award in 2015 and an International Women of Courage Award in 2022. Early life and family Josefina Klinger Zúñiga was born in 1965 in Nuquí, Chocó Department, the only child of a Nuquiseño mother and a German father. She has 21 half-siblings. She left Nuquí in search of economic opportunities, but returned at the age of 25 as a single mother with two children and financial difficulties. She worked as a salesperson in a drugstore. Mano Cambiada In 2006, Klinger Zúñiga founded the organization Mano Cambiada (Changed Hand) to promote sustainable tourism and eco-tourism in Chocó through engagement with the local population. She founded the organization alongside eight other ...
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Josefina is a female name, a feminine form of Joseph (name), Joseph. It may refer to: *Josefina Passadori, Argentine writer *Josefina de la Torre, Spanish poet, novelist and opera singer *Josefina Klinger Zúñiga (born 1965), Colombian environmentalist *Josefina Lamberto, human rights activist. Her life was dedicated to the memory of her sister Maravillas Lamberto, raped and assassinated by the Francoists *Josefina Lopez, Chicana playwright *Josefina Pla, Spanish poet, playwright, art critic, painter and journalist *Josefina Ayerza, writer and a psychoanalyst *Josefina Deland, Swedish feminist *Josefina Wettergrund, Swedish writer *Josefina Robledo Gallego, Spanish classical guitarist *Josefina Tallado, Filipino politician Fiction *Josefina LaCosta, a fictional character in the Richard Sharpe series of novels by Bernard Cornwell. *Josefina, Gil Harris' fake girlfriend in the 2002 teen comedy ''The New Guy'' *Josefina Menendez, a fictional character in the 2012 first-person shoo ...
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Cali
Santiago de Cali (), or Cali, is the capital of the Valle del Cauca department, and the most populous city in southwest Colombia, with 2,280,522 residents estimate by National Administrative Department of Statistics, DANE in 2023. The city spans with of urban area, making Cali the second-largest city in the country by area and the List of cities and towns in Colombia, third most populous. As the only major Colombian city with access to the Pacific Coast, Cali is the main urban and economic center in the south of the country, and has one of Colombia's fastest-growing economies. The city was founded on 25 July 1536 by the Spanish explorer Sebastián de Belalcázar. As a sporting center for Colombia, it was the host city for the 1971 Pan American Games. Cali also hosted the 1992 World Wrestling Championships, the World Games 2013, 2013 edition of the World Games, the UCI Track Cycling World Championships in 2014, the IAAF World Youth Championships in Athletics, World Youth Champi ...
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Sustainable Tourism
Sustainable tourism is a concept that covers the complete tourism experience, including concern for Impacts of tourism, economic, social, and environmental issues as well as attention to improving tourists' experiences and addressing the needs of host communities. Sustainable tourism should embrace concerns for environmental protection, social equity, and the quality of life, cultural diversity, and a dynamic, viable economy delivering jobs and prosperity for all. It has its roots in sustainable development and there can be some confusion as to what "sustainable tourism" means. There is now broad consensus that tourism should be Sustainability, sustainable. In fact, all forms of tourism have the potential to be sustainable if planned, developed and managed properly. Tourist development organizations are promoting sustainable tourism practices in order to mitigate negative effects caused by the growing Impacts of tourism, impact of tourism, for example its environmental impacts. T ...
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Colombian Women Environmentalists
Colombian may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to the country of Colombia * Colombians, persons from Colombia, or of Colombian descent **For more information about the Colombian people, see: *** Demographics of Colombia *** Indigenous peoples in Colombia, Native Colombians *** Colombian American ** For specific persons, see List of Colombians * Colombian Spanish, one of the languages spoken in Colombia ** See also languages of Colombia * Colombian culture * Colombian sheep, a sheep breed * Colombian necktie * Columbians Drum and Bugle Corps, based in Pasco, Washington * Colombians, a 2017 instrumental Gorillaz track, released in the Super Deluxe boxset of "Humanz." See also * * * Christopher Columbus (1451–1506), Italian explorer after which Colombia was named * Coffee production in Colombia * Colombia (other) * Colombiana (other) * Colombina (other) * Colombino (other) * Colombine (other) * Columbia (disambig ...
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21st-century Colombian Women
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Colombian People Of German Descent
Colombian may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to the country of Colombia * Colombians, persons from Colombia, or of Colombian descent **For more information about the Colombian people, see: *** Demographics of Colombia *** Indigenous peoples in Colombia, Native Colombians *** Colombian American ** For specific persons, see List of Colombians * Colombian Spanish, one of the languages spoken in Colombia ** See also languages of Colombia * Colombian culture * Colombian sheep, a sheep breed * Colombian necktie * Columbians Drum and Bugle Corps, based in Pasco, Washington * Colombians, a 2017 instrumental Gorillaz track, released in the Super Deluxe boxset of "Humanz." See also * * * Christopher Columbus (1451–1506), Italian explorer after which Colombia was named * Coffee production in Colombia * Colombia (other) * Colombiana (other) * Colombina (other) * Colombino (other) * Colombine (other) * Columbia (disambig ...
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Afro-Colombian Women
Afro-Colombians (), also known as Black Colombians (), are Colombians of total or predominantly Sub-Saharan African ancestry. Colombia has one of the largest  Afro-descendant populations in South America, with government estimates being that Afro-Colombians make up about ten percent of the country's population. In the national censuses of Colombia, Black people are recognized as three official groups: the Raizals, the Palenques and other Afro-Colombians. History Africans were enslaved in the early 16th century in Colombia. They were from various places across the continent, including modern-day Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola, Nigeria, Cameroon, The Gambia, Liberia, Guinea, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Guinea-Bissau, Sierra Leone, Senegal, Mali and parts of Togo, Benin, Namibia and Zimbabwe. They were forcibly taken to Colombia to replace the Indigenous population, which was rapidly decreasing due to extermination, genocide campaigns, disease, an ...
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People From Chocó Department
The term "the people" refers to the public or common mass of people of a polity. As such it is a concept of human rights law, international law as well as constitutional law, particularly used for claims of popular sovereignty. In contrast, a people is any plurality of persons considered as a whole. Used in politics and law, the term "a people" refers to the collective or community of an ethnic group or nation. Concepts Legal Chapter One, Article One of the Charter of the United Nations states that "peoples" have the right to self-determination. Though the mere status as peoples and the right to self-determination, as for example in the case of Indigenous peoples (''peoples'', as in all groups of indigenous people, not merely all indigenous persons as in ''indigenous people''), does not automatically provide for independent sovereignty and therefore secession. Indeed, judge Ivor Jennings identified the inherent problems in the right of "peoples" to self-determination, as i ...
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Colombian Environmentalists
Colombian may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to the country of Colombia * Colombians, persons from Colombia, or of Colombian descent **For more information about the Colombian people, see: *** Demographics of Colombia *** Indigenous peoples in Colombia, Native Colombians *** Colombian American ** For specific persons, see List of Colombians * Colombian Spanish, one of the languages spoken in Colombia ** See also languages of Colombia * Colombian culture * Colombian sheep, a sheep breed * Colombian necktie * Columbians Drum and Bugle Corps, based in Pasco, Washington * Colombians, a 2017 instrumental Gorillaz track, released in the Super Deluxe boxset of "Humanz." See also * * * Christopher Columbus (1451–1506), Italian explorer after which Colombia was named * Coffee production in Colombia * Colombia (other) * Colombiana (other) * Colombina (other) * Colombino (other) * Colombine (other) * Columbia (disambig ...
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1965 Births
Events January–February * January 14 – The First Minister of Northern Ireland and the Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland meet for the first time in 43 years. * January 20 ** Lyndon B. Johnson is Second inauguration of Lyndon B. Johnson, sworn in for a full term as President of the United States. ** Indonesian President Sukarno announces the withdrawal of the Indonesian government from the United Nations. * January 29 – Tampere Ice Stadium, Hakametsä, the first ice rink of Finland, is inaugurated in Tampere. * January 30 – The Death and state funeral of Winston Churchill, state funeral of Sir Winston Churchill takes place in London with the largest assembly of dignitaries in the world until the 2005 funeral of Pope John Paul II. * February 4 – Trofim Lysenko is removed from his post as director of the Institute of Genetics at the Russian Academy of Sciences, Academy of Sciences in the Soviet Union. Lysenkoism, Lysenkoist theories are now tr ...
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