The International Rights of Nature Tribunal (IRNT), during the reading of the verdict for the Case «Chiquitanía, Chaco and Amazonia vs. Plurinational State of Bolivia,» declared that the 2019 fires were an “ecocide caused by State policy and agribusiness,” and demanded the repeal of the designated «incendiary regulations» to prevent these events from ever beingSigue leyendo «The International Rights of Nature Tribunal resolves that the 2019 fires were an Ecocide caused by State policy and agribusiness»
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Get Amazonized against Burning and Extractivism!
August opens with the day of the Pachamama, the Mother Earth. We celebrate, in resistance and alliance, while the mother forest, the mountains and the fields are being consumed in the noise of the fire, which slowly devours the body of the trees, animals and communities. Hundreds of lives are falling in the face ofSigue leyendo «Get Amazonized against Burning and Extractivism!»
Global Campaign against COVID-19 impacts on indigenous, afro-descendants and Amazonian peoples
Aggressions from States and extractivisms 1. The COVID-19 situation in the Amazon: an ethnocide Map of COVID-19 confirmed cases in the Pan Amazon on July 17, 2020: total confirmed cases in the Amazon 609,121. Total deceased 17,869. COVID-19 is a pandemic, it is endemic and it generates a structural crisis never seen before. This isSigue leyendo «Global Campaign against COVID-19 impacts on indigenous, afro-descendants and Amazonian peoples»
Cries from the Amazon for life
Self-convened in view of the Amazon and its peoples’ destruction, which will produce a global catastrophe due to the deep interdependence of everything that exists. With the support of 540 Amazonian groups, and the initial support of more than 3,098 citizens, we call for global mobilization for the Amazon, with the following goals: Stop theSigue leyendo «Cries from the Amazon for life»
Declaration of the First Global Assembly for the Amazon
Something new is rising. Can you hear it? We hear it well, in the middle of the cries of the Amazon. The struggle of the Amazonian people rises, attacked in their territories, memories and cultures. The deafening cry of the jungle grows, knocked down, burned, plundered by rapist extractivism, which only obeys power and greed.Sigue leyendo «Declaration of the First Global Assembly for the Amazon»
Etnocidio Amazónico por Covid-19 / Ethnocide Amazon por Covid-19 / Amazon Ethnocide by Covid-19
Etnocidio Amazónico por Covid-19 Webinario Primera Asamblea Mundial por la Amazonía Expositores: COICA / REPAM / CEJIS (Bolivia) / Organización Panamericana de la Salud OPS (invitado) / ONU, Relator Pueblos Indígenas (invitado) / Transnational Institute. Jueves 16: 2:00pm (Ecuador, Colombia, Perú); 3:00pm (Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay, Guayana y Venezuela); y 4:00pm (Brasil-Sao Paolo, Guayana Francesa ySigue leyendo «Etnocidio Amazónico por Covid-19 / Ethnocide Amazon por Covid-19 / Amazon Ethnocide by Covid-19»
El Grito de la Selva / A Voz da Floresta / The Jungle Screams
Lo puede seguir en vivo en la pagina de facebook de la COICA y de la Asamblea Mundial por la Amazonia:https://www.facebook.com/CoordinadoraOrganizacionesIndigenasCuencaAmazonica/https://www.facebook.com/asambleamazonica/ EL GRITO DE LA SELVA Conversatorio COICA Previo a la Autoconvocatoria a la Primera Asamblea Mundial por la Amazonía 17 julio / 10:00 (Ecuador, Colombia, Perú), 11:00 (Bolivia y Venezuela), 12:00 (Brasil):¿Por qué losSigue leyendo «El Grito de la Selva / A Voz da Floresta / The Jungle Screams»
Self-call to the First Global Assembly for the Amazon
Against ethnocide, ecocide and extractivism in the Amazon which is aggravated by the COVID-19 pandemic The Amazon is being flooded with death in its communities, villages, towns and cities. The COVID-19 is raging with the so-called «forest peoples» who are suffering from centuries of indifference, neglect, exploitation, extractivism, racism and ethnocide. This region, which isSigue leyendo «Self-call to the First Global Assembly for the Amazon»
What are we looking for?
Form an alliance for the Amazon, a sort of platform of platforms where different networks, organizations, initiatives and campaigns converge, dialogue and coordinate. The Assembly does not seek to replace, standardize or centralize the different articulations, but rather to support and strengthen the different initiatives and generate new ones. To build a process, and thereforeSigue leyendo «What are we looking for?»
Asamblea Mundial por la Amazonía 