Dayanna Palmar Uriana

VIP Lab Non-Residential Fellow

Dayanna Gladys Palmar Uriana is an indigenous woman from the Wayuu ethnic group, a binational community spanning Venezuela and Colombia. She is a lawyer, journalist and human rights advocate. Her interests revolve around researching topics related to the territorial and environmental rights of indigenous peoples, as well as the rights of indigenous women.

Dayanna's project explores the discrimination faced by Wayuu indigenous women living in Colombia and Venezuela. Discrimination related to issues of identity, education, participation in public and political life, and access to human rights creates a landscape of violence, manifesting as gender-based violence, territorial violence, spiritual violence, and poverty.

This research examines the situation of indigenous women within the framework of human rights, women's rights, and the rights of indigenous peoples, centering the collective voice of the Wayuu people in the investigation to transform inequitable power dynamics and generate solutions aligned with the Wayuu women's own vision.

Read Dayanna's research, Discrimination Against Wayuu Women as a System of Collective Violence Against the Wayuu Indigenous People in Venezuela and Colombia / Errata Wayuumuin Sumuin tu’ Wayuu Jiertkaa Jutuma’a Milia’an Jauhtu’u Jumaika’a heka Jumana’a tuu Wuomain eh Venezuerraka musia Colompianaka.

Read Dayanna's article, Exploring Systems of Discrimination and Violence Against Wayuu Indigenous Women/E'rrajawaa Sucuaypaa Jutumaa tu'u muju'ulaca err'uin wayumuin Sumuin tu'u Wayuu Jiertkaa sumuin tu muilian Jain.

Listen to Dayanna discussing Indigenous sovereignty on the Kroc Pod. 

La Discriminación hacia la Mujer Wayuu como Sistema de Violencia Colectiva en el Pueblo Wayuu en Venezuela y Colombia.

Read more about Dayanna’s work in this Fucai article (español).