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Ecuador must improve conditions for uncontacted Indigenous communities, human rights court rules
ruled that the government violated numerous rights of the Tagaeri and Taromenane Indigenous peoples and failed to prevent violent attacks against them. The historic decision should improve safeguards ...
In Ecuador’s mountains, a photographer’s search for ultra-long hair
Over the past two decades, photographer Irina Werning has traveled around Latin America with a specific directive in mind: ...
Ruling on Indigenous peoples’ rights strikes at oil industry
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights ordered the Ecuadorian government to protect uncontacted Indigenous groups from oil operations and to leave oil in the ground underneath their lands ...
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Nearly 500,000 people affected by oil spill in Ecuador
Local communities in the Ecuadorean province of Esmeraldas were still protesting Tuesday after a major oil spill last week left some 500,000 residents with no access to drinking water, in addition to ...
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Rainforest Oil Exploration Stopped as Court Rules Uncontacted Tribes Have Right to Remain in Isolation
The court also ruled that Ecuador must honor the results of a 2023 referendum, in which voters chose to stop oil operations ...
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Ecuador must improve conditions for uncontacted Indigenous communities, human rights court rules
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) ruled that Ecuador violated numerous rights of the Tagaeri and Taromenane Indigenous peoples and failed to protect them from violent attacks.