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    New Policy Paper Provides Roadmap to Tackle Organized Crime in the Amazon

    Lima, Peru – A new policy paper by Amazon Underworld, Amazon Watch, the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime, and InfoAmazonia details a roadmap for governments across the region to tackle the ruthless expansion of crime organizations and illicit markets in the most biodiverse region of the world.

    November 21, 2023
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    Amazon Underworld

    Criminal Economies in the World's Largest Rainforest

    This report shows how criminal organizations and armed groups have expanded their presence, increased their political control, and diversified their economies in the Amazon with disastrous impacts on Indigenous peoples.

    November 2023
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    The Growing Threat of Organized Crime in the Amazon

    Supporting Indigenous rights and territories is an essential element of any strategy

    Organized crime has been present in the region for many years, and it has recently become a major threat to the Amazon and Indigenous rights and territories.

    November 16, 2023
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    Amazon in Focus 2023

    Over the last year, hope and progress for the future of the Amazon and climate has been restored. With immense joy and pride, we celebrate recent victories to protect Indigenous land rights with the civil society consultation to keep oil in the ground in the Yasuní National Park in Ecuador and the Brazilian Supreme Court ruling declaring “Marco...

    Fall 2023
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    Amazon Watch is building on more than 28 years of radical and effective solidarity with Indigenous peoples across the Amazon Basin.

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    Unmasking Canada’s Extractive Industry Violations at the UN Human Rights Council

    Pressure mounts in Geneva against Canada as civil society demands Indigenous and socio-environmental rights commitments

    Civil society organizations also urge Canada to enact regulations ensuring gold's origin traceability, especially when mining occurs in Amazonian countries. They call for a comprehensive energy transition plan that respects human rights and promotes the gradual abandonment of extractive industries that jeopardize the Amazon's ecological balance.

    November 9, 2023
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    Impunity for Loggers Behind Brutal Murders of Four Indigenous Earth Defenders

    The abrupt annulment of the 28-year sentences that took families seven years of legal battles to achieve highlights the profound injustice and judicial discrimination they face in Peru

    This decision is a strong affront to justice, memory, and the dignity of the victims and their families, who face yet another chapter of legal strife and uncertainty.

    October 5, 2023
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    Canada Emerges As Key Culprit in Amazon Destruction

    Despite its “climate forward” image, Canada is linked to corporate abuses and rights violations across mining and oil extractive projects in the Amazon

    The rights violations discovered in the operations of Canadian companies in the Amazon rainforest are deeply troubling, particularly considering Canada's efforts to present itself as a human rights leader in the world.

    September 6, 2023
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    Unmasking Canada: Rights Violations Across Latin America

    Amazon Watch was joined by more than 50 civil society organizations to compile three critical reports - covering Regional, Amazonian, and Oil and Gas - under the campaign Unmasking Canada: Rights Violations Across Latin America.

    August 31, 2023
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    Peruvian Indigenous Organizations Denounce Italy’s Export Credit Agency for Seeking Loan Partnership with Notorious Polluter Petroperú

    Wampís and Achuar Nations request meeting with SACE to discuss lack of due diligence on Petroperú's failure to secure consent for new oil blocks

    “SACE must understand why we consider that support for a company like Petroperú includes risks to the lives of our sons and daughters, our people, and the climate crisis in ways that will affect us all, which we simply cannot accept.”

    July 12, 2023
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    Peruvian Indigenous Movement Achieves a Victory, Though Threats Remain

    The oil industry, illegal miners, and land traffickers continue their attacks in lockstep with the Peruvian Congress through a dangerous set of bills

    It is essential that we recognize this pattern and be ready to mobilize in solidarity with the Peruvian Indigenous movement in the struggles to come over the next few months.

    July 6, 2023
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    Peruvian Congress Places Isolated Indigenous Peoples Under Threat

    The Governors’ Climate and Forests Task Force founding member state, California, could use its influence to protect them and defend the “PIACI” law

    Peru’s regional governments, as well as extractive companies trying to greenwash their image in front of the world, must know that we will not allow them to continue. The GCF Task Force must denounce this contradiction.

    June 20, 2023
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    Amazon Watch Response to Petroperú

    Under international standards, the impacted communities should have been consulted for the creation of Block 64 as well as all leasing contracts, which did not happen. As such, the “intercultural dialogue mechanisms” cannot be considered as complying with the international standards of FPIC.

    May 16, 2023
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    2021-2022 Annual Report

    Following years of multiple crises in the Amazon amid the COVID-19 pandemic, we began to see hope on the horizon in 2021-2022. It was a monumental year defending the Amazon and human rights!

    April 2023
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    New Toolkit Guides Investors on Indigenous Rights Respect

    Toolkit and website provides innovative guidance for institutional investors on due diligence for Indigenous rights, which is a responsibility of investors and is crucial for climate stability, biodiversity protection, and financial risk management

    New York, NY —Today, Amazon Watch published Respecting Indigenous Rights: An Actionable Toolkit for Institutional Investors, an Indigenous-led guide for pension funds, asset managers, and other institutional investors on their responsibility to respect the rights of Indigenous peoples.

    April 18, 2023
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    Respecting Indigenous Rights

    An Actionable Due Diligence Toolkit for Institutional Investors

    The rights of Indigenous peoples are protected by a robust and growing body of international human rights instruments and jurisprudence. This Toolkit provides practical guidance and tools for institutional investors to learn about and meet their responsibility to respect Indigenous peoples’ rights, and in turn, avoid financial, and reputational...

    April 2023
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    How We Leverage “Shareholder Season” for the Amazon

    This April and May, the biggest financial backers of corporations that induce climate change and disregard rights will convene for their Annual General Meetings. We hope to push them to vote yes on important climate and Indigenous rights resolutions.

    March 28, 2023
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    Women Must Be Protagonists in Solving the Climate Crisis

    As the most vulnerable population, particularly those at the intersection of the environment and Indigeneity, women should take part in the development of global climate solutions

    "We will all be affected by climate change." The truth is that some will face the impacts of this process much more than others. And it is women and girls who are the most vulnerable, with Black and Indigenous women being even more exposed.

    March 23, 2023
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    China's Human Rights Obligations in Relation to Business Activities in Latin America

    Chinese business activities in Latin America have increased at an unprecedented rate – impacting the Ecuadorian Amazon. Through the United Nations, those Latin American countries are granted processes to advocate for the respect of human rights, and when they are not, it provides external oversight to guide reparation and compliance.

    February 2023
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    The Transformative Power of Reciprocity and Gratitude

    “Gratitude is so much more than a polite thank you. It is the thread that connects us in a deep relationship. Gratitude and reciprocity are the currency for a giving economy or regenerative economy.”

    February 14, 2023
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    Petroperú Will Seek Financing to Drill in Environmentally Conflicted Area

    “Banks and asset managers should know that any investment in Petroperú represents a serious financial risk. The current government is trying to take advantage of political instability to speed up contested projects which have a history of extensive unremediated environmental impacts. The message is clear: the oil industry in Peru is a bad...

    February 8, 2023
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    The Biden Administration Must Denounce Violent Repression in Peru

    In just one month since the Dina Boluarte government came to power, at least 48 civilians have been killed in the context of social protests, 41 of them as the result of wounds caused by gunfire. Human rights groups have sharply criticized Peruvian security forces, which appear to be responsible for most of the deaths, for using lethal force...

    January 13, 2023
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