Gloria Ushigua is Coordinator of the Sápara women's organisation Ashiñwaka, which defends Sápara people's ancestral land and environmental rights in the province of Pastaza. Since 2010, the human rights defender has been invested in the defence of her community in Llachama Cocha, primarily against private and State-owned companies seeking to exploit oil deposits in Sápara territory. As a result, she has been threatened, intimidated, judicially harassed, discredited on national television by high public officials and assaulted by law enforcement officers, along with other members of her family.
In this event, Gloria will share about her fight to protect her territory in Ecuador, which consists of 400,000 hectares of the Amazon, where she has been defending the land against illegal logging, mining, and oil exploitation. She will also be sharing about the Sápara and their traditional practices. Come ready to listen, learn and ask questions!
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