Add to ORKGHow was it possible for an indigenous people in the middle of the Amazon to protect their life and territory from oil exploitation? What was the response of the Government of Ecuador to the claims of the Sarayaku people? How is a human rights strategy developed at different geographical levels? In this text, Mario Melo Cevallos, lawyer of the Kichwa people of Sarayaku, addresses these questions by presenting his version of the history of resistance and mobilization of the indigenous people before the State plans to exploit the oil that was in the heart of the Amazon. From the jungle, through the national courts, to the inter-American human rights system, the author shows the different sources of political and legal mobilization used by ...
This chapter looks at Indigenous rights in Amazon countries, comparing the substantive law with its ...
Throughout Latin America, extractive industries have profound cultural, environmental and social imp...
Over the past two decades, indigenous groups across Latin America have been demanding and obtaining ...
Abstract Sarayaku is an Amazonian Kichwa community on the shores of Rio Bobonaza, Ecuador. Ten year...
The adoption and ratification of new conventions and treaties under international law designed to pr...
Indigenous peoples in the Ecuadorian Amazon have been resisting colonialism since the early sixteent...
Indigenous peoples in the Ecuadorian Amazon have been resisting colonialism since the early sixteent...
Indigenous peoples in the Ecuadorian Amazon have been resisting colonialism since the early sixteent...
Indigenous peoples in the Ecuadorian Amazon have been resisting colonialism since the early sixteent...
This paper discusses the protracted battle between the Kichwa Indigenous peoples of Sarayakuand, the...
In 2012, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights handed down Sarayaku v. Ecuador, a crucial decisio...
Over the last decades, most Latin American States have been engaged in processes of legal recognitio...
In 2012, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights settled the Case of Kichwa Community of Sarayaku v...
In 2012, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights settled the Case of Kichwa Community of Sarayaku v...
In 2012, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights settled the Case of Kichwa Community of Sarayaku v...
This chapter looks at Indigenous rights in Amazon countries, comparing the substantive law with its ...
Throughout Latin America, extractive industries have profound cultural, environmental and social imp...
Over the past two decades, indigenous groups across Latin America have been demanding and obtaining ...
Abstract Sarayaku is an Amazonian Kichwa community on the shores of Rio Bobonaza, Ecuador. Ten year...
The adoption and ratification of new conventions and treaties under international law designed to pr...
Indigenous peoples in the Ecuadorian Amazon have been resisting colonialism since the early sixteent...
Indigenous peoples in the Ecuadorian Amazon have been resisting colonialism since the early sixteent...
Indigenous peoples in the Ecuadorian Amazon have been resisting colonialism since the early sixteent...
Indigenous peoples in the Ecuadorian Amazon have been resisting colonialism since the early sixteent...
This paper discusses the protracted battle between the Kichwa Indigenous peoples of Sarayakuand, the...
In 2012, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights handed down Sarayaku v. Ecuador, a crucial decisio...
Over the last decades, most Latin American States have been engaged in processes of legal recognitio...
In 2012, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights settled the Case of Kichwa Community of Sarayaku v...
In 2012, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights settled the Case of Kichwa Community of Sarayaku v...
In 2012, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights settled the Case of Kichwa Community of Sarayaku v...
This chapter looks at Indigenous rights in Amazon countries, comparing the substantive law with its ...
Throughout Latin America, extractive industries have profound cultural, environmental and social imp...
Over the past two decades, indigenous groups across Latin America have been demanding and obtaining ...