Articles


  1. Indigenous Peoples and International Law in the Ecuadorian Amazon
  2. Amazonians in New York: Indigenous peoples and global governance
  3. Ecuador: Last Chance to Save the Amazon? Expansion of road-building threatens Indigenous Peoples
  4. Honouring Indigenous resistance in Totonicapán: interview with Maya K´iché exile Lucía Ixchíu
  5. Defending the Rights of Nature with Natalia Greene.
  6. Yasuní National Park under threat once again
  7. Who will save Yasuní? Ecuador’s environmental referendum
  8. Ecuador: Napo goldrush begins with big mining
  9. Ecuador: the Napo goldrush and the rise of the narco-garimpeiros
  10. The Assassination of Eduardo Mendua
  11. The Condor and the Eagle takes flight
  12. Frente Amplio headed for victory in Uruguay’s October 2024 elections?
  13. The role of indigenous peoples in combating climate change Linda Etchart
  14. One woman against Big Oil and Patriarchy

Indigenous Peoples and International Law in the Ecuadorian Amazon

Linda Etchart
Laws 2022, 11(4), 55; https://doi.org/10.3390/laws11040055
(Special Issue Promoting and Protecting the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: Challenges and Opportunities)

Nemonte Nequimo and friends celebrate court victory in Ecuador, 2019
Nemonte Nenquimo, Waorani leader. Photo: Mitch Anderson

Amazonians in New York: Indigenous peoples and global governance

Linda Etchart and Leo Cerda (2020)
City Analysis of Urban Change, Theory, Action, Volume 24, 2020 – Issue 1-2
Pages 5-21 | Published online: 25 Mar 2020

Helena Gualinga, Domingo Peas, Gloria Ushigua, inside Blackrock headquarters, New York, 2018. Photo: Linda Etchart
Demonstration inside BlackRock headquarters, NYC, 2018. Photo: Linda Etchart
Helena Gualinga, Rainforest Summit, Williamsburg, New York, 2018.
Photo: Linda Etchart
Demonstration outside BlackRock headquarters, 44th Street, Manhattan. Photo: Linda Etchart

Ecuador: Last Chance to Save the Amazon? Expansion of road-building threatens Indigenous Peoples

José Gualinga and Linda Etchart
https://lab.org.uk/ecuador-last-chance-to-save-the-amazon-2/
Latin America Bureau Environmental Defenders Series

José Gualinga, Sarayaku Kichwa Elder, with ceremonial staff
José Gualinga, New York, April 2024. Photo: Linda Etchart

Guatemala

Honouring Indigenous resistance in Totonicapán: interview with Maya K´iché exile Lucía Ixchíu

by Linda Etchart
https://lab.org.uk/indigenous-totonicapan-maya-lucia-ixchiu/

Lucia Ixchíu with Alicia Weya Cahuiya and Dayuma Nango of the Waorani of Ecuador, 2023

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Defending the Rights of Nature with Natalia Greene.

Natalia Greene, Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature, New York, October 2023

Linda Etchart and James Thackara interview leading global environment advocate Natalia Greene, founding member of the Yasunidos campaign

Latin America Bureau, 17 October 2023


Yasuní National Park under threat once again


Leonidas Iza of CONAIE denounces President Noboa’s extractive policies in the face of the ‘internal armed conflict’

February 1, 2024
https://lab.org.uk/yasuni-national-park-under-threat-once-again/


Who will save Yasuní? Ecuador’s environmental referendum

Linda Etchart, 4 August 2023
https://lab.org.uk/who-will-save-yasuni/


Ecuador: Napo goldrush begins with big mining

TerraEarth vs Indigenous environmental defenders

Latin America Bureau
Linda Etchart, 11 May 2023
https://lab.org.uk/ecuador-napo-goldrush-begins-with-big-mining/

Napo Gold Rush: illegal diggers 2021 resisted by FOIN

Ecuador: the Napo goldrush and the rise of the narco-garimpeiros

Environmental defenders targeted, money laundered, government corrupted

Linda Etchart
12 May 2023, Latin America Bureau
https://lab.org.uk/ecuador-the-napo-goldrush-and-the-rise-of-the-narco-garimpeiros/

Damage caused by alluvial goldmining, Yutzupino, Napo Province, Ecuador

The Assassination of Eduardo Mendua

The assassination of Eduardo Mendua
Linda Etchart, Latin America Bureau, 15 March 2023

The assassination of Eduardo Mendua

Linda Etchart, Latin America Bureau, 15 March 2023

Eduardo Mendua. Photo: CONAIE

The Condor and the Eagle takes flight

Epic film takes journey through a continental movement

Linda Etchart, Esperanza Project, 20 May 2020


Frente Amplio headed for victory in Uruguay’s October 2024 elections?

Frente Amplio President, Fernando Pereira, interviewed by Latin America Bureau in New York

Linda Etchart
https://lab.org.uk/frente-amplio-uruguay-2024-elections/
May 29, 2024

Fernando Pereira. Photo Pablo Vignali, ADHOC Photos
Fernando Pereira and Verónica Piñeiro at the People’s Forum, New York, 3 April 2024. Photo: Linda Etchart

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The role of indigenous peoples in combating climate change Linda Etchart

Linda Etchart (2017)
https://www.nature.com/articles/palcomms201785#ref-CR4

Photo Linda Etchart
Photo Linda Etchart

One woman against Big Oil and Patriarchy

Linda Etchart (2017)
New Internationalist no 500, March. 
https://newint.org/features/2017/03/01/one-woman-against-big-oil-and-patriarchy

‘Women have the power,’ says Alicia Cawiya, threatened for defending ©Elle Enander/This photo was submitted to Your Shot, National Geographic’s online photo community yourshot.nationalgeographic.com
Photo Linda Etchart