Amazon Frontlines

The Alliance of Organizations for Human Rights and the Caminantes anti-mining Collective, we are deeply concerned about recent events reported by the Governing…

This editorial was originally published in El Comercio, the most widespread newspaper in Ecuador, by the Waorani leader, Nemonte Nenquimo,…

“Every woman here is a leader”. With these words, Waorani leader Norma Nenquimo greeted thirty Indigenous women last week in…

There are few places in the world where will you find age-old myths and songs being shared by Indigenous elders…

For Immediate Release. July 2nd, 2021 – An international mission made up of forty human rights experts and leaders from eleven…

15 June 2021, Quito – This morning, Ecuador’s Alliance for Human Rights delivered a hard-hitting new report to government authorities and…

New York, NY—Prompted by the recent alliance in Colombia between the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and GeoPark, an oil…

Widespread protests are now entering their third week in Colombia as the country grapples with a third wave of COVID-19…

Here is a hard truth: if deforestation of the Amazon continues at its current pace, the world’s largest terrestrial carbon-sink…

In early April of 2021 – a full year after the covid pandemic struck South America, collapsing western health systems,…

Iván Duque President of the Republic of Colombia Antonia Urrejola President of the Interamerican Commision on Human Rights Francisco Cali…

Today marks a tragic anniversary in the Ecuadorian Amazon. One year ago on April 7, at the peak of the…