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Article

20 Mar 2009

Author:
Survival International

Colombian oil company to enter uncontacted tribes' land

Ecopetrol, has signed a deal with...oil company, Petrobras, which has a contract to explore in two regions of the Peruvian Amazon – both inhabited by uncontacted tribes...[it] covers almost all of a reserve supposedly set aside for uncontacted Murunahua Indians who are exceedingly vulnerable to any contact with outsiders because of their lack of immunity to disease...‘Yet again President Garcia’s government is ignoring the International Labour Organisation’s Convention 169 and the United Nation’s Declaration on Indigenous Rights,’ said AIDESEP’s president [national indigenous organisation]...Survival director, Stephen Corry, said today, ‘...By working there, Ecopetrol will break international law and violate the rights of some of the most vulnerable people on earth.’