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30 Jul 2018

Ecuador: NGOs allege intimidation and threats against indigenous leaders due to their opposition to extractive projects

Extractive projects in environmentally protected zones belonging to indigenous lands, like those of Rio Blanco mining project, of the Chinese EcuaGoldMining South America SA and CNPC, Chuanqing Drilling Engineering Company Limited (CCDC), part of China National Petroleum Co. (CNPC), Andes Petroleum [part of Sinopec and CNPC] is highly conflictive both internally and externally to the indigenous peoples defending ancestral rights.  There are legal accusations and attacks against women and men that are leading resistance processes and reclaiming their rights before several governmental & international instances, to prevent contamination or ask for remediation of environmental & social harms related with these companies’ behaviour, like in the cases of Sarayaku vs Ecuador before the Inter-American Human Rights Commission, involving Compañía General de Combustibles…