Junín. Residents heckle ENAMI EP officials. Reproduction requested by residents of Intag (Imbabura). As expected by representatives of local organizations and governments in Intag, the presence of the National Mining Company (ENAMI EP) was rejected in its attempt to begin exploration in the mining concession called Llurimagua, known worldwide by the name […]
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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.
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 […]
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 […]
MANTA, ECUADOR.- Carlos Ahumada Quezada, head of the Satellite Monitoring Center of the Chilean Government's National Fisheries Service, is training officials from the Undersecretariat of Fisheries Resources (SRP) who are working on the implementation of this system. The Monitoring System in Chile has been operating since 2000, during which time it has […]
The International Whaling Commission (IWC), the body responsible for the international regulation of marine mammals, concluded its 64th annual meeting in Panama City a few days ago. It approved quotas for subsistence hunting for indigenous wildlife over the next six years and rejected the creation of a sanctuary in the South Atlantic (one of the […]
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