An international court published its ruling this month that the Ecuadorian government was responsible for a long list of ...

COCHAPAMBA, Ecuador (AP) — The two candidates vying for Ecuador’s presidency in a second-round run-off never campaigned in Cochapamba. Their faces are nowhere to be seen in this remote ...

Canada and Ecuador’s new free-trade agreement is threatening the rights of Indigenous peoples and their territories, and increasing social and environmental conflicts across the country. These are ...

In December 1994, the United Nations proclaimed 1995–2004 the International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples. In Latin America—where indigenous peoples comprise some 10 percent of the ...

Local communities in the Ecuadorean province of Esmeraldas were still protesting Tuesday after a major oil spill last week left some 500,000 residents with no access to drinking water, in addition to ...

Ecuadorian Indigenous leader, lawyer, and anti-mining activist Yaku Pérez will run in the upcoming snap elections called after President Guillermo Lasso dissolved Parliament through a so-called ...

Minorities and indigenous peoples are often among the most marginalized communities in many societies: they are often excluded from participation in socio‐economic life, rarely have access to ...

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Over the past two decades, the Argentinian photographer Irina Werning has traveled around Latin America with a specific directive in mind: find women — and eventually, men — with the longest hair.

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights ordered the Ecuadorian government to protect uncontacted Indigenous groups from oil operations and to leave oil in the ground underneath their lands ...