Full Coverage: Ecuador

04/18/2008 The UN needs to address women's reproductive rights as it conducts the first "peer reviews" of member countries' human rights records, says a coalition of 11 rights groups from around the world.
From: Center for Reproductive Rights

03/25/2008 Ecuadorin sotilas- ja diplomaattipiireissä epäillään, että Yhdysvallat osallistui kolumbialaisten sissien tappamiseen Ecuadorin alueella maaliskuun alussa.

03/20/2008 Fair Trade flowers are the latest product in the United States to be certifiably produced under fair labor practices and rigorous environmental standards.

03/06/2008 As diplomatic and military tensions between Colombia, Ecuador, and Venezuela rise, Forrest Hylton delves into the complex relationships between Colombian President Uribe and his political allies, the right-wing paramilitaries, Chávez, and the FARC.

03/03/2008 Uuden tuulivoimayksikön myötä Galápagos-saarten tarvitsemasta energiasta puolet tuotetaan tuulella. Ecuadorin tavoitteena on tehdä Galápagos-saarista fossiilisista polttoaineista vapaa vuoteen 2015 mennessä.

01/04/2008 Ecuadorilaisessa intiaaninaisten johtajuuskoulussa kasvatetaan johtajia järjestöihin, politiikkaan ja kohta myös talouselämään.

12/06/2007 The governments of Ecuador and Peru recently approved three new major oil projects threatening biodiversity and isolated indigenous groups in the Upper Amazon Basin.
From: Environment News Service

11/28/2007 "Teidän maissanne yhtiöt voivat olla puhtaita, mutta meillä ne eivät ole", kertoo ecuadorilainen Wilman Jiménez. Hänen maassaan öljy-yhtiöt jättävät jälkeensä saasteita, käyttökelvotonta maata, juomakelvotonta vettä ja köyhyyttä.

10/04/2007 After a resounding electoral victory built on the back of indigenous and social movements, Ecuador's governing party is expected to draft a new constitution to create social and economic institutions that "benefit the people," says Latin America scholar Roger Burbach.

10/01/2007 Ecuador's president has proposed a pioneering plan to ban oil drilling in a key area of the Amazon, if an effort is made by the world community to compensate the country for the $4.5 billion of revenue it will forego.
From: Amazon Watch

10/01/2007 Ecuadorin presidentti Rafael Correa kieltänee öljybisneksen yhdessä Amazonin sademetsän kansallispuistossa – jos kansainvälinen yhteisö suostuu korvaamaan maalle sen menettämät lähes viiden miljardin dollarin öljytulot.

09/17/2007 Lähestyvät vaalit perustuslain uudistavan elimen kokoonpanosta innostivat Ecuadorin presidentin Rafael Correan perustamaan oman blogin. Blogi lanseerattiin, tietysti, näyttävällä YouTube-videolla. Correa on nyt latinalaisen Amerikan ensimmäinen bloggaava presidentti.

09/14/2007 Ecuadorian president Rafael Correa's new blog intends to involve citizens in the formation of government and counteract the views of traditional media. Correa's fellow bloggers have greeted the initiative with a mix of skepticism, ridicule, and optimism.

06/05/2007 It has been seven years since Ecuador's Sarayaku community began fighting an information war with the oil company CGC to keep control of their territories.

04/24/2007 El pago de la deuda que mantenía Ecuador con el Fondo Monetario Internacional (FMI) le permitirá al país andino dictar la política económica nacional, según lo anunciado por el presidente Rafael Correa.

04/16/2007 Los ecuatorianos aprobaron este domingo la convocatoria a una Asamblea Constituyente con plenos poderes que antes de que concluya 2007 redactará la vigésima Carta Magna de Ecuador en 177 años de vida independiente.

03/29/2007 After teaching elementary school for ten weeks in a small village in rural Ecuador, I came away from the experience with a lot more than the standard shock at the poverty and conditions in the developing world. Instead, I was surprised by how little is really needed to change those conditions.

03/07/2007 Rafael Correa's leftist government has moved assertively in its foreign relations during its first month in office, particularly in its approach to the United States and Colombia.

03/06/2007 Las bases militares están diseñadas para sostener el dominio de Estados Unidos sobre zonas de interés en las que se encuentran acumulados los más grandes recursos naturales del planeta.

03/05/2007 El Viceministro de Defensa del Gobierno ecuatoriano, Dr. Miguel Carvajal, el Secretario General de la Vicepresidencia de la República, Ing. Galo Cevallos, y el alcalde del Distrito Metropolitano de Quito, General (R) Paco Moncayo, asistirán a las inauguración de la Conferencia de Internacional por la Abolición de las Bases Militares Extranjeras este 5 de marzo.