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    Letter from APIB and Amazon Watch to Anglo American

    The Munduruku address mining on Indigenous lands and threats to their people and territory, as Anglo American seeks at least 27 research permits in Munduruku territory

    We invite Anglo American to make a public commitment to refrain from carrying out any mining activities on Indigenous lands in Brazil, regardless of changes in Brazilian legislation, in line with its human rights and biodiversity protection commitments, in particular the Declaration of ICMM's position on Mining and Protected Areas.

    December 22, 2020
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    Statement on Violence and Deprivation of Freedom Against Forest Defender Salomé Aranda

    As the network of Amazonian Women, we express our total rejection of violence and deprivation of liberty that Salomé Aranda – our sister, leader, and defender of the Amazon rainforest – is suffering. We demand her immediate release and that a transparent investigation be carried out on the situation of systematic violence that our sister has...

    October 30, 2020
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    Forests and Human Rights: Principles for Asset Managers

    BlackRock, the world's largest asset manager, has no clear policy on forests, land, and human rights of Indigenous Peoples and local communities

    BlackRock's Big Problem | In light of BlackRock's commitments to center climate in its investment strategy and the responsibilities it has stemming from its continued financing of deforestation-linked commodities, the BlackRock's Big Problem campaign urges BlackRock and other asset managers to adopt policies on Forests, Land, and the Human Rights of Indigenous Peoples and...

    June 22, 2020
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    Investor Eye on the Amazon

    A primer for shareholders concerned about rainforest protection and human rights

    The Investor Eye on the Amazon newsletter serves as a resource for socially-responsible investors, industry analysts, and researchers looking to better understand the risks associated with financing climate-damaging industries in the Amazon, and what they can do to protect the region.

    Spring 2020
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    Statement in Solidarity With Amazonian Indigenous Peoples Facing the Novel Coronavirus

    In solidarity with Indigenous organizations, federations and nationalities of the Amazon who have expressed deep concern about the impending threat of COVID-19 in their ancestral territories and communities, we demand integrated, effective, and culturally adequate state responses to this crisis. This begins with an immediate moratorium on any...

    April 2020
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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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    Protest Statement: Damn Those Who Celebrate Belo Monte!

    A Statement of Protest from Movimento Xingu Vivo para Sempre (Xingu Alive Forever Movement)

    At a time when the people of the Xingu agonize over their lack of water, Bolsonaro hails the final turbine of Belo Monte. At a time when the fish of the Xingu River are reduced to skin and spine because there are no more nutrients in the river, Bolsonaro celebrates Belo Monte. When the forest tumbles like it never has before in the areas of Belo...

    November 26, 2019
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    Declaration for the Protection of the Amazon Sacred Headwaters

    We, the Indigenous Peoples of Ecuador and Peru together with our allies, call on the global community for solidarity, as our very survival depends on the survival of the Amazon rainforest which is under constant and unprecedented attack.

    October 15, 2019
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    The Women of the Amazon Have Come in Peace

    Quito, Ecuador – We are women of peace, defenders of our territories and our families. We are making this statement after much pain and indignation, witnessing so much inhuman repression, and after many days of suffering, racism and violence against our brothers and sisters who participate in the National Strike, where people are demonstrating in...

    October 12, 2019
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    Investor Eye on the Amazon

    The Investor Eye on the Amazon provides an update on our campaigns targeting corporations with ties to dirty industry in the Amazon, and it aims to serve as a resource for socially-responsible investors, industry analysts, and researchers looking to better understand the risks associated with investment in extractive industries - and their own...

    December 20, 2018
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    The Shiwiar Nation of Ecuador Raises Its Voice Against Oil Drilling in Its Territory

    "It was not a consultation, they came only with offers that we know are false. We were not in any way consulted as our rights say. As Shiwiar we had already spoken out against this project of oil exploitation and since we also opposed this supposed consultation, hydrocarbons entered our territory using indigenous people living in the city. "

    July 9, 2018
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    Worldwide Solidarity with Indigenous Leaders Threatened by Chinese Mining Project in Ecuador

    This morning in Quito, indigenous, campesino, and civil society organizations delivered an international sign-on letter signed by 132 organizations and individuals to the Chinese embassy expressing concern over Ecuagoldmining, a Chinese mining company allegedly involved in the kidnapping, illegal detainment, violent assault, and assassination...

    June 21, 2018
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    ENI-AGIP Oil Project Threatens Indigenous Territories in the Ecuadorian Amazon

    Indigenous organizations have rejected the company's presence in their territories and an Indigenous leader has been subjected to threats and intimidation

    "This attack is a reprisal for the struggle that I've been waging to defend life and our territories against the threat that is still being pushed upon us, fossil fuel exploitation in our territories."

    May 30, 2018
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    Spring 2018 Investor Eye on the Amazon

    A primer for shareholders concerned about rainforest protection and human rights

    The Investor Eye on the Amazon provides an update on our campaigns targeting corporations with ties to dirty industry in the Amazon, and it aims to serve as a resource for socially-responsible investors, industry analysts, and researchers looking to better understand the risks associated with investment in extractive industries - and their own...

    Spring 2018
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    We Are the Land

    Indigenous lands help regulate the planet's climate, for they are obstacles to deforestation. There is ten times less deforestation in indigenous lands than in non-titled lands.

    April 4, 2017
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    Letter from the Shuar Arutam People to the Country and the World

    As many of you know, recent days have been very dangerous for our people. These days have not yet ended and are, indeed, probably only the beginning of a great territorial dispute initiated by the National Government against the Shuar Arutam People.

    January 11, 2017
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    Chiriaco: First Solidarity Assistance Arrives in the Indigenous Community of Nazareth

    Around 82 families from the community of Nazareth benefited from the arrival of emergency supplies of essential food and water. The assistance was delivered by ORPIAN President Edwin Montenegro, thanks to the help of everyone who joined the Everyone For the Amazon (#TodosxLaAmazonía) campaign. This initial delivery was also carried out on the...

    March 22, 2016
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    AIDESEP Presents an Effective Action Plan to Petroperu for the Amazon Oil Spills

    The Inter-Ethnic Association for the Development of the Peruvian Amazon (AIDESEP) will meet today with representatives of Petroperu to demand from the company an immediate solution through an effective action plan to the environmental disaster resulting from the most recent spills in Chiriaco and Morona, caused by lack of maintenance of the...

    February 29, 2016
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    Statement of the Sápara Women’s Association on Oil Exploration in Their Territory

    The Association of Women of the Sapara Indigenous Nation of the Ecuadorian Amazon denounces the government of Ecuador which signed two contracts through the Ministry of Hydrocarbons, represented by the secretary of Hydrocarbons, Ivonne Fabara, and the president of Andes Petroleum Ecuador, Zhao Xinjun.

    February 9, 2016
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    Brazilian Public Prosecutors Denounce Ethnocide and Call for Judicial Intervention in Belo Monte

    The Federal Public Prosecutor's Office today initiated legal proceedings in a federal court in Altamira seeking recognition that the implementation of the Belo Monte dam project constitutes an act of ethnocide by the Brazilian government and dam concessionaire Norte Energia, citing abundant evidence of "the destruction of the social organization...

    December 14, 2015
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    Ecuadorian Government Promotes Farce in an Attempt to Divide CONFENIAE

    Pese a los evidentes intentos que tras este teatro ha movido el gobierno, financiando logística y movilización de 200 personas desde varias partes de la Amazonia, como CONFENIAE estamos claros del camino a seguir. Es evidente que esta acción responde a la altiva participación que como CONFENIAE y Amazonia, de manera especial las nacionalidades...

    September 15, 2015
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    International Allies Denounce Violence Against Women on Strike in Ecuador

    Indigenous groups from across Ecuador rose up last week in a General Strike to challenge proposed Constitutional amendments curtailing indigenous rights and allowing President Correa to stay in power indefinitely; the water law; expansion of the mining and fossil fuel concessions; and the government's opposition to bilingual education, among many...

    August 15, 2015
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    Yudja Indigenous People Request Consultation Regarding Belo Sun

    Federal Public Prosecutor, Para, Brazil | The company proposes to undertake mining operations in an area that will be most impacted by the Belo Monte hydroelectric project. The Federal Public Prosecutor, National Indian Foundation and Federal University of Para met with the indigenous Yudja to discuss their right to be consulted.

    July 17, 2015
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    "We Are Here So History Does Not Repeat Itself"

    The Peruvian State does not respond properly to the communities and indigenous federations suspend the dialogue until July 23rd

    PUINAMUDT | Puinamudt, Peru – Lack of a clear and precise response from the State regarding the demands of the communities from the Pastaza and Corrientes river basins (represented by the FEDIQUEP and FECONACO indigenous federations, respectively) has generated conflict during the most recent phase of dialogue related to the Block 192 consultations.

    July 18, 2015
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