An expansive new study from environmental and Indigenous rights groups has traced billions of dollars worth of investment in oil drilling in the Amazon.
Quito, Mar 7 (EFE).- Colombia’s Fany Kuiru is the first woman elected to head the Coordinator of Indigenous Organizations of the Amazon Basin (Coica), the world’s largest indigenous confederation, amid deep division and conflict within the Quito-based organization and with Ecuador’s Tuntiak Katan also claiming to be its leader. Amid this great internal tension within …
It is the first time in COICA's 38-year history that a woman will preside over the organisation that represents more than 500 indigenous peoples from 9
For years, Ruth Alipaz has been fighting against the Chepete-El Bala hydroelectric project. The project involves the construction of two reservoirs that together would flood at least 66,200 hectares (163,500 acres) of land and displace more than 5,000 people, the majority of them Indigenous communities. “They came to my village to threaten me because of […]