CONFENIAE

Indigenous groups like CONAIE and the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of the Ecuadorian Amazon (CONFENIAE) seemed content with this new agreement, even though both groups had previously firmly demanded that oil and minerals stay in the ground and that extraction activities in the ...

It focused, in particular, on organizations from the Amazon, like that of the Achuar nation (NAE), the Shiwiar nation (NASHIE), and CONFENIAE. Not only that, and ignoring the rights to free association and sovereignty for indigenous peoples established in Ecuador's constitution, the Correa administration ...

Under the coordination of COICA, this Indigenous leader explained, the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of the Ecuadorian Amazon (CONFENAIE) had been actively engaging with their Indigenous peers in South America to deliver a clear-cut alternative to the current REDD+ mechanism that they ...