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Indigenous Groups and Natural Resource Exploitation in Ecuador

Start Date: Nov 05 2009, 1:00pm

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Indigenous Groups and Natural Resource Exploitation in Ecuador

CEJIL, Amazon Watch and Washington Office for Latin America cordially invite you to the following

Brown Bag Lunch

Indigenous Groups and Natural Resource Exploitation in Ecuador

Marlon Santi
President
Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE)

Patricia Gualinga
Leader of the Sarayaku Indigenous Group

Hólger Cisneros
President of the Sarayaku Indigenous Group

The speakers will discuss their long struggle to defend indigenous rights in the Ecuadorian Amazon, and will explain their current concern about those projects being considered by the Government for the exploitation of natural resources in the Amazon.

Thursday, 5 November 2009
1:00pm - 2:00pm
CEJIL
1630 Connecticut Avenue NW, Suite 401
Washington DC - 20009

(The event will be in Spanish)

To confirm your attendance, please RSVP to Thelma Lizama thelma@interncejil.org.

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