61. Burlington's Oil Projects Vs. Indigenous Communities And Rainforest Protection - ecuador Burlington s Oil Projects Vs. indigenous Communities and Rainforest The indigenous federations representing the peoples that have lived in these http://www.amazonwatch.org/amazon/EC/burling/

Home Newsroom In the Amazon Capacity building ... Colombia Ecuador Peru Home In the Amazon Ecuador : Burlington's Oil Projects Vs. Indigenous Communities and Rainforest Protection Ecuador Burlington's Oil Projects Vs. Indigenous Communities and Rainforest Protection Overview Table of Contents Overview Block 24 The Southern Ecuadorian Amazon Block 23 The Ecuadorian Amazon and the Community of Sarayacu Block 64 The Northern Peruvian Amazon The Shuar and Achuar peoples of the Ecuadorian Amazon want it to be known that the position of our communities is 'no' to oil exploration, 'no' to dialogue and negotiation, 'no' to deforestation, 'no' to contamination, and 'no' to all oil activities. Bosco Najamdey, President of the Shuar Federation. Debunking Burlington (PDF, 56KB) Fact Sheet (PDF, 1.3MB) view map Burlington Resources, a Houston-based oil company with record annual earnings of some $1.2 billion in 2003, has plans to explore for oil in three highly controversial oil concessions in remote Amazon regions of Ecuador and Peru. These concessions were carved out of the traditional territories of four indigenous nationsthe Shuar, Achuar, Kichwa, and Z‡parawithout their consultation or consent. The indigenous federations representing the peoples that have lived in these extraordinarily biodiverse areas for thousands of years are opposed to oil projects on their lands. They point to the fate of other forest communities living near the major oil producing regions of the Peruvian and Ecuadorian Amazon, where wide-spread oil and toxic contamination has caused increased incidents of cancer and other illnesses among the local peoples who have no option but to bathe, fish and drink from polluted rivers. Weak environmental regulations have also led to extensive deforestation, loss of biodiversity and natural habitat destruction from the opening of road and pipeline networks into previously roadless, rainforest territories. In addition, throughout the northern Ecuadorian Amazon, the draw and infrastructure of oil projects has resulted in the large-scaled displacement of indigenous peoples and the dispossession of their land by migrants from other regions.

62. Press Release - Amazon Watch Investors Call on Oil Company to Adopt Policy on indigenous peoples In ecuador’sBlock 24, the over 50000 Shuar and Achuar people are represented by http://www.amazonwatch.org/newsroom/view_news.php?id=748

63. Business And Human Rights indigenous peoples issues ecuador ratified the International Labor OrganizationConvention concerning indigenous and Tribal peoples (ILO Convention 169) http://www.amnestyusa.org/business/ecuador.html

@import "/c/ai.css"; Amnesty International USA learn latest news countries ... students search Business and Human Rights Aguinda, et al v. Texaco Inc. Case # 93-CV-7527 The human rights situation of Indigenous peoples and environmentalists in Ecuador continues to be a serious concern for Amnesty International. For over four decades, Indigenous communities have witnessed multinational oil companies cut through the Ecuadorian Amazon and their ancestral lands in search of the country's vast petroleum resources. Testimonies by members of these communities, verified by independent health studies and reports (including "Amazon Crude" by Judith Kimerling) have described how oil companies have left dead rivers, road-scarred forests, polluted air, and daily discharges of millions of gallons of toxic waste in their wake that are affecting the daily lives of the communities in the area. Northern Amazon: The ChevronTexaco Pollution and Three Decades of Neglect Legal Issues... A Trial: In 1993, a class action lawsuit was filed against ChevronTexaco under the Alien Tort Claims Act in a federal court in New York on behalf of an estimated 30,000 Amazon residents for polluting their environment. ChevronTexaco has fought the litigation and succeeded in having the U.S. courts send the case to be heard in Ecuador, where it has been re-filed. Currently, judicial inspections are taking place in the affected zones.

64. THE LIBERATION OF LATIN AMERICA - NI 356 - Growing From The Grassroots They are still used to degrade the indigenous peoples of the South American What ecuador’s indigenous movement does will undoubtedly influence Latin http://www.newint.org/issue356/growing.htm

New Internationalist May 2003 Latin America / ECUADOR - INDIGENOUS MOVEMENTS Pachakutik, a new alliance of indigenous people with the urban and rural poor, is now part of the Government in Ecuador. Luis Angel Saavedra explains the background – and the dilemmas an increasingly prominent indigenous movement now faces. Click here to send this page to a friend... On 10 August 1979, after 10 years of military dictatorship, Jaime Roldós was sworn in as Ecuador’s elected President. He made his first speech to the National Congress in Kichwa, the main indigenous language. Politicians and landowners never forgave him, despite the use of indigenous icons – such as Rumiñahui, who led the fiercest resistance against the Spanish conquest – for patriotic purposes. Roldós died in suspicious circumstances – an air crash – in May 1981. In 1982 his successor, Oswaldo Hurtado, wore the presidential sash with words written in Shuar, another indigenous language, when he gave his end-of-year report to Congress – and faced a political trial for doing so.

65. Narco News: Indigenous Peoples: Distinct Paths, Common Quest That’s how it is the indigenous peoples and nationalities of ecuador, organizedin their diverse mosaic of organizations, spoke, applied pressure, http://www.narconews.com/Issue31/article855.html

English Espa±ol Portuguªs September 21, 2005 Set Color: Print This Page Your Team of Authentic Journalists: Acting Publisher: Managing Editor: Dan Feder Editorial Columnist: Laura del Castillo Matamoros Correspondent: Al Giordano Gary Webb: Presente Opening Statement, April 18, 2000 Sign up for free alerts list: English Lista de alertas gratis: Narco News is supported by: The Fund for Authentic Journalism THE ARCHIVES: enough facts to end a drug war Narco News Issue #30 Complete archives Search Narco News: Editorial Policy and Disclosures The trademarks "Narco News," "The Narco News Bulletin," and "School of Authentic Journalism" © 2000-2005 Al Giordano RSS 1.0 Indigenous Peoples: Distinct Paths, Common Quest “Maybe the Zapatista Caracoles Could Illuminate Ecuador Movement’s Path” By Raquel Guti©rrez Aguilar La Jornada, translated by Narco News August 22, 2003 The indigenous peoples of Latin America have spent more than a decade promoting social transformations that overcome racism and exclusion, and that permit them to imagine and construct different manners of coexistence and public regulation. They bring more than a decade, really, centuries, developing paths to achieve their goals. This month there have been two important steps in this never-ending quest.

66. Feb 21, 2001 Ecuador Indians Win Again A Mandated Increase Of 100 The indigenous peoples of ecuador Indians of the Americas - have held this basis of ecuador was reminded of its indigenous core. indigenous peoples http://www.nadir.org/nadir/initiativ/agp/free/imf/ecuador/txt/2001/0220Indians_w

Feb 21, 2001 Ecuador Indians win again A mandated increase of 100 percent in the price of domestic fuel, of major impact for the many far-flung Indigenous communities of Ecuador, generated the most recent example of Indian government-by-mobilization in that country. The Indigenous peoples of Ecuador - Indians of the Americas - have held this basis of political clout since a year ago when their national movement, Pachakutik, toppled a president and ushered in a new era of respect for the country's very large Indian population. In Ecuador (as in Peru, Bolivia, Guatemala and Mexico), Indian people are the mass, both in urban areas and in the countryside. In Ecuador, during the 1990s, this Indian mass of people (estimates put it at 40 percent to 60 percent of 12 million) from 12 specific nations organized throughout the four corners of the country into a national movement and have come to be reckoned a powerful force. The Ecuadorian Indigenous "democracy from underneath" marks a crystal moment in the political strategy developed by a highly discriminated range of Native nations, from the Andes mountains to the Amazon, the most populous of which are the Quechua, descendants of the Incas, in a national coalition that includes many lowland Amazonian tribes. Peaceful, discouraging the use of firearms and warlike violence, nevertheless this movement can shut down the highways of this South American country and literally paralyze its economy. Its method: coalition building. Its tool: massive mobilization. Ecuador's Indigenous peoples do not govern the country, not yet, but they can stop business as usual. Most interestingly, this Indian movement enjoys the overwhelming support of social and guild organizations, unions, churches and other modest sectors, including many among the rank and file of the Ecuadorian army, composed largely of Indigenous and working class recruits. It is important to take note of this remarkable fact: in Ecuador, the national "movement of conscience," which is attempting to assuage the terrible economic conditions afflicting the country, is led by the Indian national movement, which practically all progressive organizations support. This movement has keenly strategic Indian leadership. It has a well-developed intellectual tradition. It is very community-related. The movement-by-mobilization is not without sacrifice. In the 10-day mobilization of 6,000 Native people to the capital of Quito, important concessions were gained from the government, but not before six demonstrators were shot to death and dozens injured in the inevitable, if sporadic, clashes that erupted. After the deaths, 40 protesters launched a serious hunger strike in the capital of Quito that greatly dramatized the issue. That and the closing of highways, which had already cost the Ecuadorian Federation of Exporters some $50 million in lost export earnings, led to the signing of a formal accord between the president and a council of 80 Indigenous leaders led by Antonio Vargas, CONAIE (National Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities) president. The combination of tactics and elements make the Indian movement "a major powerbroker in the country," Reuters news agency reports. Last time, the Indian mobilization of Ecuador toppled a president; this time, it reversed the earlier mandated price rise and actually negotiated a drop of 20 percent from the present price of gasoline products, among other important concessions. Under pressure, the government promised to establish a people's gas distribution system, which would guarantee long term price stability. The main national Indian organization, CONAIE strategically addresses many national-level issues that transcend to the non-Native population. Among these is the serious concern by Ecuadorians that the war in neighboring Colombia could spill over to their country. CONAIE's demand that the government not participate in "Plan Colombia," part of the U.S. Drug War's multi-billion dollar military involvement in that troubled country, had overwhelming support and won just such a promise from the government. This oil-rich country, always struggling with a great deal of corruption in government, can do better by its Indigenous peoples, who might be as much as half of the total population. By imposing "economic austerity" measures, which fundamentally squeezed the poor sectors to pay for decades of corruption and theft by previous public officials, it made a desperate situation unacceptable. Indian people led the country in saying no to this approach to "globalization"; the government had to back down. Most importantly, once again, the Indian movement proved itself a continuous force from underneath. Its non-violent but forceful mobilization, once again concentrating a wide-ranging coalition, keeps it a viable leadership sector for social change. Throughout the mobilization, ceremonial fires, theater and dance were a constant among the demonstrators. Ecuador was reminded of its Indigenous core. Indigenous peoples everywhere, populations large and small, might pay attention. ©2000 Indian Country Today

67. IISD Youth Source Book On Sustainable Development CISA was founded in 1980 as an organization for indigenous peoples organizations organization which represents ecuador s 4 million indigenous people at http://www.iisd.org/youth/ysbk146.htm

[previous] [next] [Table of Contents] DIRECTORY INDIGENOUS PEOPLES ORGANIZATIONS Assembly of First Nations 55 Murray Street, Suite 500 Ottawa, Ontario Canada K1N 5M3 Tel: +1-613-236-0673 Fax: +1-613-238-5780 Composed of representatives of first nations, their objectives are to share information, develop strategies to address national and regional government policy initiatives as they affect First Nation peoples. CISA Consejo Indio de Sud America Indian Council of South America Apartado Postal 2054 Lima 100 Peru Tel/Fax: +51-14-236-955 CISA was founded in 1980 as an organization for indigenous peoples organizations from South America. CISA's objectives are oriented to reach the recognition and respect for the right to live, justice, development and peace of the indigenous people at the United Nations and National Governments. CISA promotes knowledge and traditional practices on the use, conservation, preservation and sustainable development of natural resources. Confederacion De Nacionalidades Amazonicas Del Peru (CONAP) Brigadier Pumucahua No. 974 Jesus Maria, Lima, Peru

68. Infoshop.org News Kiosk - PROTEST IN ECUADOR ESCALATES PROTEST IN ecuador ESCALATES indigenous peoples AND CITIZENS GROUPS CALL FOR indigenous peoples in ecuador have been mobilizing over the past month http://www.infoshop.org/news6/ecuador1.html

February 6, 2001 PROTEST IN ECUADOR ESCALATES From the SAPRI Network/Development Gap: PROTEST IN ECUADOR ESCALATES - INDIGENOUS PEOPLES AND CITIZENS' GROUPS CALL FOR REPEAL OF IMF-IMPOSED STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT POLICIES GOVERNMENT RESPONDS WITH REPRESSION - SEVERAL INDIGENOUS PEOPLE KILLED OR WOUNDED AND HUNDREDS ARRESTED Indigenous peoples in Ecuador have been mobilizing over the past month to demand the repeal of new IMF-backed economic measures announced by the Ecuadoran government in late December as part of an ongoing structural adjustment program. The measures involve the removal of subsidies on cooking fuel and gasoline, causing the former to double in price and the latter to increase by 25%, and a 75% increase in transportation costs. The IMF's insistence on the application of these measures as well as a 3% increase in the value-added tax which is still pending has put access to dignified living conditions even further beyond the reach of large segments of the Ecuadoran population. The escalating protests in recent days are not only in response to these economic measures but to the overall structural adjustment program that has intensified with Ecuador's conversion to the US dollar last year. Beginning on 21 January, indigenous groups led by CONAIE (Confederation of Indigenous Nations of Ecuador) organized marches and blockaded roads in the countryside and cities in half of the country's 22 provinces. Farmworkers, students and others also joined in supporting these protests. The government sent military forces to disperse many of these peaceful demonstrations with force, using teargas and weapons, that resulted in several indigenous people injured, some by bullets, and several hundred arrested.

69. MA News Kiosk - ECUADOR: Press Release CONAI (indigenous Movement) 16.1 The Confederation of indigenous peoples of ecuador (CONAIE) wishes to issue analert to all that the Government of ecuador has started a mis information http://www.infoshop.org/news5/ecuador4.html

January 18, 2000 ECUADOR: press release CONAI (indigenous movement) 16.1 International Press Release from the Confederation of Indigenous Peoples of Ecuador (CONAIE) Quito - January 16th 2000 The National Parliament of the Peoples of Ecuador, democratically constituted with the participation of 21 Provincial parliaments and innumerable community, county and neighbourhood parliaments, has directly assumed the control of national sovereignty in order to save the Republic of Ecuador from the process of national dissolution started by the decision of Jamil Mahuad to renounce monetary sovereignty by announcing the substition of the sucre, our historical form of currency, for the (American) dollar. The decision to dollarize the economy is the latest attack against the peoples economy and the country's system of production executed by Mahuad with the sinister intent to protect a corrupt "bankocracy" and to transform Ecuador into an enclave for financial speculation and money- laundering. The dollarization implies the destruction of the system of production, the bankrupcy of industry and the loss of hundreds of thousands of jobs, and increasing expropriation of the tiny parcels of land that belong to the indigenous and rural people of the country.

70. Ecuador Programme Why we support indigenous peoples Regional Programmes Quito Ecuadorindigenous from Kiwaro Community in the Ecuadorian rainforest. http://www.ibis.dk/uk/index.php?menuId=22&upId=4

71. Postgraduate Course In Ecuador On Indigenous Peoples And Human Rights Postgraduate Course in ecuador on indigenous peoples and Human Rights particular questions of human rights and indigenous peoples http://www.idh.deusto.es/actividades/accion/postgrado/default.asp?lang=EN

72. OneWorld U.S. Home / In Depth / Human Rights / Indigenous Rights - Novelist Varg QUITO, Nov 12 (IPS) Indian leaders in ecuador reacted angrily to The country sindigenous peoples are governed by ancestral values and live according http://us.oneworld.net/article/view/72673/1/67

OneWorld U.S. Home In Depth Human rights Indigenous rights Search for OneWorld.net OneWorld Africa OneWorld Austria OneWorld Canada OneWorld Finland OneWorld Italy OneWorld Latin America OneWorld Netherlands OneWorld South Asia OneWorld Spain OneWorld SouthEast Europe OneWorld United Kingdom OneWorld United States AIDSChannel Digital Opportunity Kids Channel LearningChannel TODAY'S NEWS IN DEPTH PARTNERS GET INVOLVED ... OUR NETWORK Wed., Sep. 21, 2005 OneWorld.net English Write to Us About OneWorld Contact Us Novelist Vargas Llosa Slammed for 'Racist' Remarks Kintto Lucas Inter Press Service (IPS) Thu., Nov. 13, 2003 QUITO, Nov 12 (IPS) Indian leaders in Ecuador reacted angrily to internationally renowned Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa's criticism of indigenous movements in South America, which he said posed a danger to democracy because of the ''political and social disorder that they generate.'' ''Vargas Llosa's thinking is stuck in the past, and he believes indigenous people should continue to be marginalized,'' Leonidas Iza, the president of the powerful Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE), told IPS Wednesday. But ''if there is hunger, poverty and inequality, we cannot remain calm.'' Iza was responding to remarks Vargas Llosa made at a seminar in Colombia, which were published Tuesday by the Ecuadorian daily

73. Earth Island Institute: Action Alert President, RE REPRESSION OF ecuador S indigenous peoples I am very concernedabout the serious repression used against peaceful protestors in your country. http://www.earthisland.org/takeaction/new_action.cfm?aaID=42

74. Worldandnation: Fight For Identity, Justice NOW IS OUR CHANCE The indigenous peoples of ecuador are united in their fightto gain a place in the political system. By DAVID ADAMS http://www.sptimes.com/News/022100/Worldandnation/Fight_for_identity__j.2.shtml

Home World and national columnist Susan Taylor Martin News Sections Action Entertainment Business Citrus County ... Tampa Bay Featured areas AP The Wire Alive! Area Guide A-Z Index ... What's New Weekly Sections Perspective Taste Tech Times Travel ... Weekend Other Sections Buccaneers College Football Devil Rays Lightning ... Contact Us All Departments Fight for identity, justice "NOW IS OUR CHANCE': The indigenous peoples of Ecuador are united in their fight to gain a place in the political system. By DAVID ADAMS LATACUNGA, Ecuador While produce is abundant, shoppers are scarce at the Saturday fair in this bustling town in the central Andean highlands of Ecuador. Market women in felt hats, from the indigenous Indian communities of Cotopaxi province, come here three times a week to sell their vegetables. They struggle to make a living at the best of times, but lately the women complain they have never had it so bad. "No one has any money. If this goes on, we are all going to die of hunger," said Laura Espin, a 55-year-old Quichua Indian selling parsley and coriander for 1,000 sucres (four cents) per bunch. Last month, thousands of indigenous men and women in traditional dress many carrying small children on their backs marched 55 miles across the sierra from Latacunga to the capital, Quito, to demand political and economic reforms.

75. Texaco Suit Reinstated By Indigenous Peoples Of Ecuador And Peru Texaco Suit Reinstated by indigenous peoples of ecuador and Peru10/6/98 ******************************* RELAYED TEXT STARTS HERE http://forests.org/archive/samerica/ecreinst.htm

Texaco Suit Reinstated by Indigenous peoples of Ecuador and Peru RELAYED TEXT STARTS HERE: Title: Texaco Suit Reinstated by Indigenous peoples of Ecuador and Peru Source: Reuters Date: 10/6/98 NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal appeals court has reinstated lawsuits filed by rainforest Indians of Ecuador and Peru against Texaco Inc., accusing the giant oil company of widespread contamination of their water and land. In the ruling made public Tuesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit reversed a lower court decision dismissing the lawsuits on jurisdictional grounds. Texaco is headquartered in White Plains, N.Y., which is within the Second Circuit's venue. The plaintiffs have estimated that clean-up costs, compensation for devastation to the rainforest and alleged increased cancer risks for thousands of people could exceed $1 billion. The three-member appeals court panel also reversed a ruling that barred the Republic of Ecuador from joining in the litigation. Ecuador's move to participate in the cases marked the first time a foreign government tried to sue a U.S. oil company in an American court over alleged environmental

76. Wcar@hrea.org - CERD 62nd Session: Committee Concludes Review Of Ecuador's Perio The fact that indigenous peoples had a separate justice system did not go against The Government of ecuador was aware that within the indigenous justice http://www.hrea.org/lists/wcar/markup/msg00153.html

CERD 62nd session: Committee concludes review of Ecuador's periodic reports Subject [WCAR] CERD 62nd session: Committee concludes review of Ecuador's periodic reports Date Fri, 7 Mar 2003 19:51:57 GMT http://www.hrea.org/lists/wcar/markup/maillist.html mailto:majordomo@hrea.org?body=help List-id: Mailing list on World Conference Against Racism (WCAR), Durban 2001 mailto:hr-education@hrea.org mailto:majordomo@hrea.org?body=subscribe%20wcar mailto:majordomo@hrea.org?body=unsubscribe%20wcar http://www.hrea.org/lists/wcar/markup/maillist.php Prev by Date: CEDIME-SE Guide to the CoE Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities Next by Date: CERD 62nd Session: Committee concludes review of Uganda's second to tenth periodic reports Previous by thread: CERD 62nd Session: Committee begins review of Ghana's periodic reports, conclusions on reports of Tunisia Next by thread: CERD 62nd Session: Committee concludes review of reports of Cote d'Ivoire Reply to this message Start a new topic Date Index ... HREA Home Page

77. Wcar@hrea.org - CERD 62nd Session: Committee Considers Reports Of Ecuador In 1996, the Confederation of indigenous Nationalities of ecuador establisheddefinitions of indigenous peoples and indigenous nationality . http://www.hrea.org/lists/wcar/markup/msg00149.html

CERD 62nd Session: Committee considers reports of Ecuador Subject [WCAR] CERD 62nd Session: Committee considers reports of Ecuador Date Wed, 5 Mar 2003 13:16:30 GMT http://www.hrea.org/lists/wcar/markup/maillist.html mailto:majordomo@hrea.org?body=help List-id: Mailing list on World Conference Against Racism (WCAR), Durban 2001 mailto:hr-education@hrea.org mailto:majordomo@hrea.org?body=subscribe%20wcar mailto:majordomo@hrea.org?body=unsubscribe%20wcar http://www.hrea.org/lists/wcar/markup/maillist.php Prev by Date: CERD 62nd Session: Morocco presents report Next by Date: International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination at UNESCO Previous by thread: CERD 62nd Session: Committee concludes review of Uganda's second to tenth periodic reports Next by thread: CERD 62nd Session: Committee exchanges views with Special Rapporteur on Racism Reply to this message Start a new topic Date Index ... HREA Home Page

78. Ecuador Translate this page indigenous peoples in ecuador An extensive collection of materials on indigenouspeoples in ecuador. Ecuatorianistas The web page of the ecuadorian http://www.yachana.org/ecuador/

Indigenous Peoples in Ecuador An extensive collection of materials on Indigenous peoples in Ecuador. Ecuatorianistas The web page of the Ecuadorian Studies section of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA). Ecuador Elections (NACLA, November 25, 2002) Populist president-elect Gutiérrez has indigenous backing, but supporters are already uneasy about policy contradictions. No FTAA: Another America is Possible In October 2002, foreign ministers met in Quito for the Seventh Ministerial Summit of the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA). This photo essay presents one perspective on the week's events. I have also worked on the web pages for the following Indigenous organizations in Ecuador: (ECUARUNARI) Federation of Peoples of the Quichua Nationality of Ecuador / Ecuador Kichua Llaktakunapak Jatun Tantanakui. The Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE) CONAIE has led the Indigenous peoples of Ecuador from relative isolation to a position at center stage of Ecuadorian society. CONAIE is the representative body that guarantees Indigenous peoples the political voice that has too long been denied them, and that expresses their needs and goals within a rapidly changing world. (FCUNAE) (FEINE) (FICI) The Indigenous and Peasant Federation of Imbabura (FICI) is the Quichua organization of Imbabura, Ecuador. Its birth was the result of the historical heritage of thousands of years of cultural construction, discriminatory state policies, and more than five hundred years of resistance in the face of colonial and neo-colonial exploitation and oppression of our people.

79. Joint Intervention On Indigenous Children And Environmental Health, Presented By “WORKING FOR THE RIGHTS AND RECOGNITION OF indigenous peoples FENOCINecuador,indigenous peoples and Nations Coalition - Alaska, Tebtebba Foundation http://www.treatycouncil.org/section_211315111142221111.htm

International Indian Treaty Council CONSEJO INTERNACIONAL DE TRATADOS INDIOS “WORKING FOR THE RIGHTS AND RECOGNITION OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES" The UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous issues Second Session, New York, 12-23 May 2003 Agenda item 4c, Health Oral Statement presented on May 19, 2003 by Andrea Carmen, representative, IITC Thank you Mr. Chairman and respectful greetings to all. We respectfully call the attention of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous issues to the devastating impacts of environmental contamination and eco-system destruction on the health, well being and traditional subsistence practices of Indigenous Peoples, and in particular on the health and development of Indigenous infants, children and future generations. Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) currently the subject of an internationally binding treaty which is yet to be implemented, include many pesticides as well as industrial chemicals and by products such as PCB's and dioxins. Their proven adverse effects on children, in particular developing fetuses and nursing infants, include many types of birth defects, diabetes, hormonal and reproductive disorders, learning disabilities and neurological damage, cancers and immune system disorders. Despite these devastating known health effects, industrial countries such as the US continue to allow the export of toxic chemicals, including ones which have been banned for use in their own countries, to developing countries, such as Mexico and Guatemala. It is estimated that between 1996 and 2000, the United States exported nearly 1.1 billion pounds of pesticides that were identified as known or suspected carcinogens, mainly to developing countries to be used for agriculture.

80. War On Terror Has Latin American Indigenous People In Its Sights In ecuador, indigenous people account for an estimated 40 percent of the populationof nearly 13 million. For the first seven months of the government of http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0606-03.htm

Home Newswire About Us Donate ... Archives Headlines Printer Friendly Version E-Mail This Article Published on Monday, June 6, 2005 by Inter Press Service 'War on Terror' Has Latin American Indigenous People in Its Sights SANTIAGO, Chile - The ”war on terror”, identified in Amnesty International's annual report as a new source of human rights abuses, is threatening to expand to Latin America, targeting indigenous movements that are demanding autonomy and protesting free-market policies and ”neo-liberal” globalization. In the United States ”there is a perception of indigenous activists as destabilizing elements and terrorists,” and their demands and activism have begun to be cast in a criminal light, lawyer José Aylwin, with the Institute of Indigenous Studies at the University of the Border in Temuco (670 km south of the Chilean capital), told IPS. Pedro Cayuqueo, director of the Mapuche newspaper Azkintuwe, also from the city of Temuco, wrote that the growing indigenous activism in Latin America and Islamic radicalism are both depicted as threats to the security and hegemony of the United States in the ”Global Trends 2020 - Mapping the Global Future” study by the U.S. National Intelligence Council (NIC). NIC works with 13 government agencies, including the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency), and is advised by experts from the United States and other countries. Cayuqueo described the report as ”a veritable x-ray” of potential ”counterinsurgency scenarios” from now to the year 2020.

A  B  C  D  E  F  G  H  I  J  K  L  M  N  O  P  Q  R  S  T  U  V  W  X  Y  Z

Page 4     61-80 of 104    Back | 1  | 2  | 3  | 4  | 5  | 6  | Next 20