Press Release: Amnesty International. Authorities are using Ecuador's judicial system to repress Indigenous and peasant leaders in what appears to be a deliberate attempt to prevent them from protesting measures affecting their environment and lands, Amnesty International said in a statement.
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Celebration of the Day for the Defense of the Mangrove Ecosystem and the IV Congress of the Ancestral Peoples of the Mangrove Ecosystem organized at C-CONDEM BY: P. Rasa Bihari D. To speak of the mangrove ecosystem is to refer to a complex system made up of mangrove forests, tidal beaches and other integrated habitats, which is located in the area […]
The largest global sporting event kicked off a few days ago, with thousands of athletes from around the world gathering in London, England, to compete in dozens of disciplines during the Olympic Games. Since 2010, when the organizing committee announced that the Games would be "the greenest in history," environmentalists from all over the world have […]
Although the news didn't receive much coverage at the time it broke, the truth is that since July 12, Ecuador joined the group of countries like China, North Korea, Cuba, and Iran that maintain some kind of obsession with controlling what their citizens […]
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) today condemned Ecuador for granting an oil concession in the Amazonian indigenous territories of the Sarayaku Kichwa people in the early 1990s without conducting free, prior, and informed consultations, in accordance with international standards, in violation of the Sarayaku people's rights to […]
While everyone in the Valdivia commune was celebrating another of their traditional festivals a few days ago, amid joy, parades, and dancing, an event related to the INDUVAL case, involving harassment, insults, and beatings of the President of the Valdivia Commune, Pedro Borbor, marred these celebrations. The incident, which occurred on February 13th […]
The First Things First Manifesto was originally written in 1963 and caused quite a stir at the time. It attacked the consumerist culture that was only interested in buying and selling things, and championed the humanistic dimension of graphic design. It was updated by a new group of […]
Do you know how many natural resources would be used globally if everyone on the planet consumed as much as you do? The global ecological footprint is 2.2 million, meaning it takes the planet an average of 1 year and 3 months to produce what we consume in a year. With this interactive tool, and a few minutes of your time, […]
The death of Lonesome George, the name given in Ecuador and around the world to the last giant tortoise species from Pinta Island (Chelonoidis abingdonii), which lived at the Charles Darwin Foundation in Puerto Ayora, Galapagos, in the early hours of Sunday, June 24th, is an event that not only […]
Pressure continues in San Pablo de Amalí over Hidrotambo. After two members of the San Pablo de Amalí community were arrested in previous weeks for resisting and preventing the destruction of their crops due to the construction of a hydroelectric project by the private company Hidrotambo SA, a committee of those affected […]
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