Ecuador’s Supreme Court Makes Historic Ruling Recognizing Indigenous Right to Consent Over Oil and Mining Projects Ruling is a victory for Indigenous and climate movements, and deals a major...
Indigenous Communities Sue Peruvian Government Over Discriminatory Land-Title Law Secoya communities bring lawsuit to catalyze national reform affecting millions of acres of primary rainforest in the Amazon El Estrecho,...
Report: Rights Defenders Under Threat in Ecuador How Government Protection Is Insufficient and Favors Industry Interests The Alliance for Human Rights in Ecuador released a report revealing the intensifying...
Our Territory, Our Decision At the first ever Ecuadorian Supreme Court hearing in Indigenous Amazonian territory, Indigenous peoples demand their right to say NO to extractive projects in their...
Indigenous Kofan Community Battles for Title to Ancestral Lands Currently Blocked By Colonial & Inept Ecuadorian National Park System After Historic 2018 Victory in Court Against Gold-Mining, A’i Kofán...
Indigenous Peoples File Lawsuit Against Ecuador’s President To Halt New Extractive Conquest in the Amazon, Threatening Indigenous Sovereignty & Our Climate For more information, contact: Sophie Pinchetti at +593...
We demand the annulment of the unconstitutional Executive Decrees that favor policies intensifying fossil fuel extraction and mining in Ecuador President Guillermo Lasso issued executive decree 95 on July...
PUBLIC COMPLAINT We demand that Shuar Arutam People’s decisions, in the exercise of their right to self-determination, are respected, and we denounce that the beginning of infrastructure works are...
INTERNATIONAL OBSERVATION MISSION TOWARDS GUARANTEES TO SOCIAL PROTEST & AGAINST IMPUNITY TRAVELS TO COLOMBIA For Immediate Release. July 2nd, 2021 – An international mission made up of forty human rights...
NEW REPORT BY ECUADORIAN HUMAN RIGHTS COALITION EXPOSES MOUNTING THREATS AGAINST RIGHTS DEFENDERS In-depth investigation reveals government and industry complicity in systematic rights violations against defenders in the country...
CIVIL SOCIETY TO THE UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME: SEVER TIES TO THE OIL INDUSTRY UNDP Executive Board must exclude all fossil fuels from current and future alliances to protect...
THE BUENAVISTA RESERVATION OF THE SIONA PEOPLE AND CIVIL SOCIETY HUMAN RIGHTS ORGANIZATIONS CELEBRATE THE CANCELLATION OF THE “STRATEGIC ALLIANCE” BETWEEN UNDP-COLOMBIA AND GEOPARK OIL COMPANY On April 26,...
REQUEST FOR URGENT ACTION FOR THE MURDER OF INDIGENOUS GOVERNOR SANDRA LILIANA PEÑA CHOQUÉ AND THE LACK OF GUARANTEES FOR THE PROTECTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS AND THE IMPLEMENTATION...
ECUADORIAN COURT REJECTS INDIGENOUS PEOPLE’S LAWSUIT AFTER DISASTROUS OIL SPILL IN AMAZON DURING PANDEMIC, REINFORCING LEGACY OF CORPORATE IMPUNITY INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES VOW TO TAKE THEIR CASE TO ECUADOR’S SUPREME...
COURT RULES AGAINST ECUADOR’S OIL INDUSTRY IN APPEAL BY CHILDREN LIVING NEXT TO “FLARES OF DEATH” RULING HERALDS A MAJOR CLIMATE VICTORY AND IS SET TO SHUTDOWN OIL INDUSTRY’S...