Landmark Ruling on Uncontacted Indigenous Peoples’ Rights Strikes at Oil Industry - Inside Climate News

Inter-American Court of Human Rights Condemns Ecuador for Violating Rights of Tagaeri-Taromenane People Living in Voluntary Isolation in Yasuní National Park

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) released a judgment declaring Ecuador’s international responsibility for violating the rights of the Tagaeri and Taromenane Indigenous peoples living in voluntary isolation. The Court determined that the Ecuadorian government failed in its duty to guarantee the principle of no contact of these peoples, allowing illegal incursions into their territory by third parties. Likewise, the creation of the…

By Ana María Cañizares, CNN en Español The Inter-American Court of Human Rights—based in Costa Rica—published this Thursday its judgment in which it held Ecuador responsible for the violation of different rights of the Tagaeri and Taromenane indigenous peoples in voluntary isolation. The Inter-American Court of Human Rights—based in Costa Rica—published this Thursday its judgment in which it held Ecuador responsible for the violation of differen…

Landmark Ruling on Uncontacted Indigenous Peoples’ Rights Strikes at Oil Industry - Inside Climate News

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights ordered the Ecuadorian government to protect Indigenous groups from oil operations and to leave oil in the ground underneath their lands.By Katie SurmaThe Inter-American Court of Human Rights ruled on Thursday that the Ecuadorian government violated the rights of uncontacted Indigenous peoples living in the Amazon rainforest, a landmark decision that strikes at Ecuador’s powerful oil industry.

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) declared the international responsibility of the Ecuadorian State in the violation of the rights to collective property, self-determination, dignified life, health, food, cultural identity, healthy environment, housing, judicial guarantees and judicial protection in perjuring the peoples in voluntary isolation (PIAV) Tagaeri and Taromenane and others that inhabit the Equatorina Amazon.

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The Assembly of the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (Conaie) continues to meet this Wednesday in Ecuador, where they will define the actions in front of the second electoral round and condemn the privatization policy of President Daniel Noboa. READ ALSO: They denounce the President of Ecuador for alliance with American mercenary During the meeting, which still sits, the Confederation will democratically respect all the posit…