The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) urged its member states to guarantee full respect for the human rights of indigenous peoples of the Americas on the occasion of their international day, August 9. The IACHR called for "full respect for the human rights of indigenous peoples […]
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The UN (United Nations, of which Ecuador is a member) commemorates this August 9th the International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples with a strong call to states to comply with existing agreements and commitments with these communities. In fact, the 2013 theme is "Indigenous Peoples Building Alliances: […]
Drawing made by a child of the Ecuadorian Amazon Towards the end of last year, the former Minister of Non-Renewable Resources, Wilson Pastor, announced in a press conference that among the companies interested in participating in the current bidding round for the blocks in the southern Ecuadorian Amazon were Petrominerales, Pacific Rubiales, and […]
The Ecuadorian government must do more to protect the human rights of Indigenous peoples (in this case, the Kichwa people of Sarayaku) if it intends to fully comply with an international court ruling, Amnesty International said. Just a year ago, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) ruled that Ecuador […]
This is what Manuel and I were wondering while we were talking about the guerrillas, natural resources, and the possibility of a greater presence of multinational corporations. Manuel is an artist, a farm worker, and one of those people it's a pleasure to meet and converse with. Of course, always with a cigarette or a good […]
Indigenous peoples in voluntary isolation need your support. Guayaquil. Even though the issue has ceased to be covered in the media, society must not forget their violated rights. Therefore, the organization CDES (Center for Economic and Social Rights) invites you to this first International Film Festival on Isolated Indigenous Peoples, the same […]
In the Kichwa Indigenous People of Sarayaku, "People of Midday," Pachamama Uyanza is celebrated every year in May. This celebration is held in gratitude for the bounty of the earth, the Kawsak Sacha – Living Forest, and the protective beings who maintain the harmony of the […]
A smiling Rafael Correa waves to a robot in Incheon, South Korea (2010). Photo: www.terra.com.ec. Yachay, the “city of knowledge,” has been hailed by President Correa as the most important project in Ecuador's history; however, Dr. Arturo Villavicencio[1], former Rector of the IAEN (Institute of Advanced National Studies, Ecuador), describes it as […]
The lives of isolated Indigenous people, the most vulnerable within a historically sensitive and abandoned region, have returned to existence in the Ecuadorian and global imagination only through their deaths. Is it possible for us, as an organized society, to confront these situations and prevent their extinction? We firmly affirm that it is possible to do so […]
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