by oilwatch | Apr 30, 2014 | Latin America, News
The Guardian Indian women rotest against extraction of oil from Yasuni Amazon reserve, Ecuador An Amazon Indian woman holds a poster that reads in Spanish: ‘Down with oil. Up with life’ during a protest against the extraction of oil from the Yasuni...
by oilwatch | Apr 29, 2014 | Africa, Global, Latin America, Publication, South Asia
We have recently changed the way we send out our information, including our monthly electronic Bulletin. This means that e-mail subscribers need to re-register via our WRM web site, and because of this, many people who used to receive the WRM Bulletin no longer do so....
by oilwatch | Apr 16, 2014 | Africa, Global, Latin America, News
The Guardian Today it is accepted, but 20-30 years ago campaigners were struggling to even get an acknowledgement that climate change was happening, let alone that it was manmade. It would have been hard to imagine that one day we might hold the developed nations...
by oilwatch | Apr 12, 2014 | Latin America, Publication
Human Rights Tulip Saving indigenous peoples and nature in EcuadorYASunidos, a youth movement, gathered 750,000 signatures to support the proposal of leaving oil underground in Ecuador’s National Park Yasuni. Youth in Protection of Biodiversity and Indigenous...
by oilwatch | Apr 2, 2014 | Latin America
UpsideDownWorld One of the many collectives, Yasunidos LojaI’m in Quito, Ecuador. I wake up nervous at 8 a.m., getting ready to pick up a valuable envelope at the bus station that Cesar, a Yasunidos activist, mailed from Guayaquil, brought by his friend from New...
by oilwatch | Mar 28, 2014 | Latin America, Press Release, Statement
Amazon Watch A global call to keep oil in the ground in Yasuni National Park Los Angeles, CA – Amazon Watch and Yasunidos, a campaign comprised of a collective of Ecuadorian and international environmental organizations and advocates, released a new PSA featuring...
by oilwatch | Mar 17, 2014 | News, South Asia
Amazon Watch China’s economy and its global influence are growing at a rapid rate. Nowhere is that growing influence clearer than in Ecuador, a country that Beijing has lent nearly $9 billion and has promised $7 billion more in financing. Those loans and...
by oilwatch | Feb 19, 2014 | Latin America, News
The Guardian The Ecuadorian government was negotiating a secret $1bn deal with a Chinese bank to drill for oil under the Yasuni national park in the Amazon while pursuing a high-profile scheme to keep the oil under the ground in return for international donations,...
by oilwatch | Feb 10, 2014 | Latin America, Press Release, Publication, Statement
Life Arts Media “Do you agree that the Ecuadorean government should keep the crude in the ITT, known as block 43, underground indefinitely?” This is the question that will be put to a national referendum in Ecuador if 584,000 signatures are collected (5%...
by oilwatch | Jan 7, 2014 | Latin America, Publication
Newsweek As two military-style helicopters touch down in a remote village in the jungles of Ecuador, masked men with guns hop out and scurry into a one-room schoolhouse. Inside they capture their target: a 6-year-old girl who doesn’t speak their language and...
