UDTR Global Rights of Nature Radar

Indigenous Peoples and International Law in the Ecuadorian Amazon

Identification

Public canonical key

doi:10.3390/laws11040055

Authors

Linda Etchart

Reported year

2022

Reported language

en

Source type

article

First detected

2026-11-09T19:04:47.672771+00:00

Last metadata observation

2026-11-09T19:07:01.651509+00:00

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Institutions reported by the source

Kingston University London

Reported affiliation countries

GB

Documentary abstract — original language

The adoption and ratification of new conventions and treaties under international law designed to protect both Indigenous peoples and the rights of nature have resulted in successful rulings by local, federal, and regional courts in favor of Indigenous groups engaged in class-action suits against their governments. In 2012 and 2019, respectively, the Sarayaku Kichwa and the Huaorani and Cofán peoples of the Ecuadorian Amazon won cases against the Ecuadorian government for its lack of consultation on planned oil exploration. Such cases upholding the correct application of the right to Free, Prior, and Informed Consent (FPIC) under international treaties are rare; more often, Western judicial systems and environmental impact assessments have been used to serve corporate interests, as exemplified by the Aguinda v. Texaco case initiated in 1993 and the planned operations of Andes Petroleum in Orellana province 2019–2020, respectively. Indigenous and non-Western epistemologies tend to be incompatible with state-driven liberal secular capitalism—hence Indigenous efforts to prevent land seizures and the expansion of the extractive frontier into Indigenous territories in the Amazon rainforest have been undermined by the imperatives of modernization/developmentalism. These same forces have stimulated demand for gold, the legal and illegal mining of which, along the Napo river, have caused the contamination of the waters of the Amazon, threatening the health of Indigenous and non-indigenous riverine communities.

Identifiers

OPENALEX

W4286630445

DOI

10.3390/laws11040055

OPENAIRE

doi_dedup___::e2e1dd46f6c37c5d326a905d2150f820

Documentary context

Documentary family

Scholarship

Source-reported types

Article · article

Natural entities mentioned

River · Territory

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Sources

OpenAIRE · Record 1

OpenAlex · Record 1 · Record 2

• DOI · https://doi.org/10.3390/laws11040055
• OpenAlex · https://openalex.org/W4286630445

Documented bibliographic relations

Source-declared references and links; they do not establish legal support or UGLC qualification. Up to 20 outgoing references are displayed.

• openalex:w1784759615 · CITES
• openalex:w2096478713 · CITES
• openalex:w2207574346 · CITES
• openalex:w2745702412 · CITES
• openalex:w2992130411 · CITES
• openalex:w3204796987 · CITES
• Global Governance of the Environment, Indigenous Peoples and the Rights of Nature · CITES
• openalex:w4210604144 · CITES
• Neo-extractivism in Latin America · CITES
• openalex:w4399938067 · CITES

6 incoming references within the detected corpus

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