COVID-19: “Not an excuse” to roll back environmental protection and enforcement
UNHR
4-15-2020
COVID-19 must not be used as an excuse to weaken environmental protection, the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and the environment, David Boyd said.
“In light of the global environmental crisis that predates COVID-19, these...
Solidarity with the Pueblo Shuar Arutam Facing COVID-19 emergency
30 April 2020
We, the undersigned organizations express our solidarity and support to the authorities of the Shuar Arutam People (PSHA), to the Shuar People in general, and to all peoples and nations of the Ecuadorian Amazon, currently...
Urgent new scenarios for political advocacy and strategic communication
Servindi
4-14-2020
The crisis unleashed by the COVID-19 pandemic poses new scenarios and urgent challenges for political advocacy and strategic communication in favor of indigenous peoples.
If something is clear in the new context we are living in, it is...
Urgent Measures from Cooperation to Help Indigenous Peoples
Servindi
4-11-2020
With the COVID-19 pandemic, an unpredictable and changing scenario prevails. However, despite the uncertainty, what urgent measures emerge to help indigenous peoples?
Indigenous communities "are almost three times more likely to live in extreme poverty, and therefore to be...
La dolorosa decisión: cerrar la comunidad a tu propio hermano
Beatriz García Blasco
29 de abril de 2020
Varias decenas de personas, quizás ya cientos, han llegado a pie a Bagua. Muchos son indígenas awajún y wampís, cuyo destino final son las comunidades de Condorcanqui que, antes de...