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Weekly Report - 15 April 2010 (WR-10-15)

ECUADOR-PERU: Indigenous pile pressure on governments

The governments of Ecuador's President Rafael Correa and his Peruvian peer Alan García are coming under concerted pressure from national indigenous movements. In Ecuador, a legislative commission delayed presenting a report to congress for a final debate on a 'water law', which indigenous groups fear will lead to the privatisation of the sector, because of well-attended protests last week [WR-10-14]. In Peru, five indigenous organisations demanded on 13 April that the government approve, within 60 days, Convention 169 of the International Labour Organization (ILO) on indigenous rights, which underlines, inter alia, the right of indigenous peoples to self-determination, lands, territories and resources.

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