Full Coverage: Ecuador

18.04.2008 The UN needs to address women's reproductive rights as it conducts the first "peer reviews" of member countries' human rights records, says a coalition of 11 rights groups from around the world.
From: Center for Reproductive Rights

20.03.2008 Fair Trade flowers are the latest product in the United States to be certifiably produced under fair labor practices and rigorous environmental standards.

06.03.2008 As diplomatic and military tensions between Colombia, Ecuador, and Venezuela rise, Forrest Hylton delves into the complex relationships between Colombian President Uribe and his political allies, the right-wing paramilitaries, Chávez, and the FARC.

06.12.2007 The governments of Ecuador and Peru recently approved three new major oil projects threatening biodiversity and isolated indigenous groups in the Upper Amazon Basin.
From: Environment News Service

04.10.2007 After a resounding electoral victory built on the back of indigenous and social movements, Ecuador's governing party is expected to draft a new constitution to create social and economic institutions that "benefit the people," says Latin America scholar Roger Burbach.

01.10.2007 Ecuador's president has proposed a pioneering plan to ban oil drilling in a key area of the Amazon, if an effort is made by the world community to compensate the country for the $4.5 billion of revenue it will forego.
From: Amazon Watch

14.09.2007 Ecuadorian president Rafael Correa's new blog intends to involve citizens in the formation of government and counteract the views of traditional media. Correa's fellow bloggers have greeted the initiative with a mix of skepticism, ridicule, and optimism.

05.06.2007 It has been seven years since Ecuador's Sarayaku community began fighting an information war with the oil company CGC to keep control of their territories.

29.03.2007 After teaching elementary school for ten weeks in a small village in rural Ecuador, I came away from the experience with a lot more than the standard shock at the poverty and conditions in the developing world. Instead, I was surprised by how little is really needed to change those conditions.

07.03.2007 Rafael Correa's leftist government has moved assertively in its foreign relations during its first month in office, particularly in its approach to the United States and Colombia.

26.01.2007 Colombia has resumed spraying to destroy coca plants allegedly grown in the region that borders Ecuador. But the U.S.-funded operation seems to be causing a lot of collateral damage.

01.12.2006 In this young democracy, only 27 years old, the presidency has had a tumultuous history. In the last 15 years, only one elected president has finished out his term. In the last ten years, Ecuador has had eight presidents.

15.06.2006 The US is pushing free trade agreements with Peru, Colombia and Ecuador that will harm small farmers, block access to affordable medicines and favor foreign investors, says a new report released by the international agency Oxfam.

14.06.2006 The US is pushing “free trade agreements” with Peru, Colombia and Ecuador that will harm thousands of vulnerable small farmers, block access to affordable medicines and favour foreign investors, according to a new report released today.

26.05.2006 QUITO, May 26 (IPS) - Showing the door to Occidental Petroleum (Oxy) and scuttling U.S. free trade negotiations have long been agenda priorities for Ecuadorian social movements and political sectors. But following government steps that have all but made these goals a reality, the atmosphere seems more anxious than celebratory.

15.05.2006 Even though Ecuador has signed various international agreements for the protection of human rights, the country lacks a system to protect minors as well as an accurate count of how many Colombian children have sought refuge within its borders.

03.04.2006 More than 345 million hectares of land globally could be forested or re-forested to help combat global warming. The Clean Development Mechanism, set up by the Kyoto Protocol, supports such initiatives. But do these programmes tackle the real causes of climate change?

02.02.2006 BOGOTA, Feb 1 (IPS) - "The bullets and shell casings were falling like hail" in the Ecuadorian village of Barranca Bermeja near the Colombian border during a recent incursion by the Colombian air force, said terrified local residents.

18.11.2005 With restless populations searching for better government and fairer societies, the political elites and the status quo in Bolivia, Peru, and Ecuador could be challenged during the 2005-2006 election season.

23.08.2005 Ampam Karakras is a man on a mission. A Shuar from the Ecuadorian Amazon, he recalls the days when the Shuar (or Jivaro as they were then known to Westerners) were famed for their secret technique of shrinking human heads. As a youth, he was sent to boarding schools run by Salesian Catholic priests where he learned Spanish and was educated in Western ways. But unlike indigenous boarding school experiences in other parts of the world, Ampam’s years among the Salesians strengthened his appreciation both for the value of education and for the Shuar people and their culture.