The prior consultation promoted by the National Government disrespected the organizational systems of the peoples to be consulted. The documentary "The Unconsulted Consultation" is an independent record of the unheard testimony of the prior consultation process implemented by the national government for oil extraction in ancestral territories in Pastaza and Morona Santiago. In "The […]
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Guarantees of respect, protection, and promotion of traditional knowledge and sustainable ways of life for indigenous peoples; and that all mitigation and adaptation actions incorporate these components; are some of the proposals of Andean indigenous peoples in response to climate change. Indigenous Peoples' Proposals on Climate Change […]
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 […]
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 […]
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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