Women and indigenous peoples are traditionally considered highly vulnerable and at risk in the face of the potential scenario of proposed mega-mining operations in Ecuador. The following are some of the expected consequences for these two groups in the areas affected by the activity […]
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The Environmental Management and Development Corporation (ECOLEX) announces a new, free nationwide telephone and email service known as LÍNEA VERDE, which provides advice on potential environmental violations and crimes. LÍNEA VERDE also promotes and disseminates the rights of nature and the rights of […]
Freddy Taish, Bosco Wisuma (a Shuar educator from Morona Santiago), and José Tendentza, indigenous people, were persecuted, criminalized, and murdered in Ecuador between 2009 and 2014 for defending their ancestral territories, where the first open-pit mining project in Ecuador (the Mirador project) is being built, controlled by the Chinese mining company ECSA. In this […]
When using a discourse to convince society on sensitive issues—in this case, the much-controversial mega-mining industry, promoted like never before by the current Ecuadorian government—the government has resorted to several concepts that, by repetition, are trying to gain acceptance among ordinary citizens. The high mining potential, […]
Map of Criminalization of Opposition to Mining Activity in Ecuador. In Ecuador, the criminalization of protest in areas of mega-mining projects has increased exponentially in recent years, according to information collected from the Map of Criminalization of Opposition to Mining Activity by OCMAL (Observatory of Mining Conflicts in Latin America and the Caribbean).
IMAGE: Fetralpi The concept of sovereignty was seen as the power of the State to exercise power over its system of government, its territory, and its population. In Ecuador, sovereignty was expanded to include three subjects of rights identified in the national Political Constitution: persons, peoples, and nature. The sovereignty of the person includes the […]
We denounce to the Ecuadorian people that on Saturday, September 14, 18 ENAMI trucks, accompanied by soldiers and police, began occupying the Intag area in the province of Imbabura, where farmers and residents are actively resisting large-scale open-pit mining, which they have attempted to […]
The most repeated narrative today by multinational mining companies and their sponsoring governments is undoubtedly that the activity is no longer polluting but rather socially and environmentally "responsible" in its operations, even attempting to make people believe that the final result of the water used […]
Top image, Panantza (Morona Santiago), an area that President Correa announces could be the second largest copper mine in the world, and below, the activities of the current first largest mine in the world in Chuiquicamata (Chile). We are increasingly hearing from the sectors sponsoring and interested in mega-mining […]
Prior consultation is a right and a mechanism for social participation, a public, special, and mandatory process; it is not a concession granted by states, much less by corporations. Prior consultation meets the need of communities, communes, indigenous peoples and nationalities, Afro-Ecuadorians, Montubio peoples, and other communities, as well as the general public, to demand that their […]
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