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Ecuador's Recurrent Cycle of Violence over Indigenous Rights Ecuador needs to address the root causes that brought so many protesters onto the streets.
In the coming weeks, roughly two dozen students will become the inaugural graduates from Ecuador’s first public Indigenous ...
Ecuador, one of the hardest-hit countries in Latin America, is now in its second month of lockdown to slow the spread of the coronavirus. It has reported some 33,000 cases and more than 2,700 deaths.
ESMERALDAS, Ecuador, September 15 (UNHCR) - The Epera have never really understood or recognized the formal border between Colombia and Ecuador. They are an indigenous people who have always lived in ...
Lawyers for five indigenous Ecuador tribes have asked a local court to push a $6.1 billion pollution lawsuit against Chevron.
In dugout canoes and on foot, dozens of people from an indigenous tribe have emerged from the Amazon rainforest in eastern Ecuador to protest against government plans to open up their lands to oil ...
Dianne Becker's travels have taken her far from the small town of Williamsville, Mo., in Wayne County where she grew up. In more than two decades of working in broadcast news and filmmaking she ...
Hundreds of indigenous tribe members have converged on Congress this week to try to stop debate on the bill. On Tuesday they entered the Congress building but were ejected by security forces.