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Ecuador's government shuts down indigenous rights organization over oil battle

2013-12-10 17:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Mongabay: Last Wednesday, the government of Ecuador shutdown the indigenous rights NGO, Fundación Pachamama, in Quito over the group's opposition to oil drilling in indigenous areas. More than a dozen government officials showed up at Pachamama's office with a resolution by the Ministry of Environment that officially dissolved the organization, the first such moved by the government which in June passed an Executive Decree that tightened governmental oversight of the country's NGOs. The Ecuadorean government,...

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