The Amazon Indigenous Health Route won first place in the third edition of the Sustainable Development Solutions Network Award, a recognition given to innovative initiatives to face the most challenging problems of sustainable development in the Amazon. The SDSN Amazônia Award was launched in May this year, in association with the Sustainable Amazon Foundation (FAS), the German Cooperation Agency (GIZ) and […]
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An inclusive response to COVID-19 threats in the Amazon
By: Tanja Brok The COVID-19 pandemic not only affects the health of Indigenous communities, it also exacerbates existing threats to their territories and resources. Even though the Indigenous communities have adopted voluntary self-isolation, the invasion and destruction of their lands continues. This spreads the virus further, while violating their territorial and human rights. Hivos, through the […]
Amazon Indigenous Health Route: A comprehensive response to COVID-19 in the Amazon
By: The All Eyes on the Amazon team It is impossible to speak of territorial defense on the Amazon, without addressing the effective exercise of human rights, such as the right to health of the peoples and nationalities that live there. In the context of COVID-19, defending the Amazon and its living culture becomes even more challenging, since […]
Hivos and IKIAM University collaborate to process 1008 COVID-19 tests in the Ecuadorian Amazon
Originally published on Hivos América Latina, May 26th 2020 Hivos, through the All Eyes on the Amazon program, supports the response of Amazonian Indigenous peoples and nationalities to COVID-19 and the threat it poses to their existence. In this framework, on May 25, it signed an inter-institutional cooperation agreement with the Amazon Regional University – IKIAM […]
COVID-19: An additional threat to an already endangered Amazon
Foto: Amazon Frontlines By Paula Bernardi and Daniel de la Torre Deforestation and lack of protection are doubling the vulnerability of Indigenous Peoples and local communities The COVID-19 pandemic has made one thing very clear: we are all connected. The outbreak is confronting us worldwide with health risks and changes in our social behavior. While […]