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Helena Gualinga
@SumakHelena
Environmental and Indigenous Rights Defender. 🇪🇨 contact: [email protected]
Joined April 2014
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    Helena Gualinga
    @SumakHelena
    Apr 20, 2023
    Indigenous Land Defenders are being murdered and investors can and must stop this! This toolkit shows them how. Make sure your money doesn't finance Indigenous rights violations by sending this to your bank, fund manger, financial advisor or pension fund.
    respectingindigenousrights.org
    Toolkit
    The rights of Indigenous peoples are protected by a robust and growing body of international human rights instruments and jurisprudence. This Toolkit provides practical guidance and tools for...
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    Helena Gualinga
    @SumakHelena
    Nov 8, 2021
    From when we took the stage at the Youth Climate March! #COP26
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    Democracy Now!
    @democracynow
    Nov 8, 2021
    Replying to @democracynow
    Helena Gualinga (@SumakHelena): “Behind every murder that happens in the Amazon, every killing that happens to a land defender, there is a company behind that, there is a government behind that, there is a name behind that."
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    Helena Gualinga
    @SumakHelena
    Aug 23, 2022
    1. The Tagaere and Taromenane people are the last people in voluntary isolation in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Due to extractivism and inaction by authorities they are at the brink of disappearance as a people.
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    Helena Gualinga
    @SumakHelena
    Nov 6, 2021
    Replying to @SumakHelena
    @guardian @Independent @Reuters @ajplus @nytimes @BBCWorld
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    Helena Gualinga
    @SumakHelena
    Sep 6, 2023
    Ecuador has set a planetary precedent. What is the world waiting for?
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    Helena Gualinga
    @SumakHelena
    Jan 10, 2024
    Every line of coke you snort is literally slaughtering people in my country!! Today they took journalists hostages LIVE, while shooting in universities and exploding bombs all over the country. #Ecuador is living through terror. STOP SNORTING COCAINE
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    Helena Gualinga
    @SumakHelena
    Dec 11, 2019
    Today police brutally assaulted a woman at a protest at COP25 and separated a child from his mother!! @COP25CL ?!!! #calloutcop
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    Helena Gualinga
    @SumakHelena
    Mar 20, 2020
    We have done EVERYTHING in our power to protect our lands. We have kicked out oil companies. We have fought arbitrary governments And for that, we have been persecuted... tortured. Yet We are the ones to face the worst effects of climate change.
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    Helena Gualinga
    @SumakHelena
    Aug 23, 2022
    Replying to @SumakHelena
    2. Tomorrow this will be heard in the Inter-american Court of Human Rights, the highest judicial organism in the region, to demand the Ecuadorian Government to guarantee their rights!
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    Helena Gualinga
    @SumakHelena
    Jun 22, 2022
    Hoy todos hemos perdido. #ParoNacionalEc2022
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    Helena Gualinga
    @SumakHelena
    Nov 13, 2024
    Lo que los políticos no te dicen en medio de la crisis energética: la minería agravará la sequía y destruirá las fuentes hídricas que nos proveen agua y de las que depende nuestra generación energética. Y todo eso, sumado a la enorme cantidad de energía que consumen las mineras.
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    Helena Gualinga
    @SumakHelena
    Jan 7, 2020
    My community has lost our oldest elder. Eloysa Gualinga has left us with wisdom and and courage to fight! ”Allpamanda, Kawsaymanda Jatarishun”- For Land, For Life We rise! ❤️
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    Pueblo de Sarayaku
    @Sarayaku_Libre
    Jan 6, 2020
    La mas anciana del Pueblo de Sarayaku nos a dejado con buenos mensajes y recuerdos de lucha, #Allpamanda #Kawsaymanda #Jatarishuk 1992 y a si te tendremos en la memoria viva por siempre Eloysa Gualinga Sarayaku warmi @comunicacionconfenia.
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    Helena Gualinga
    @SumakHelena
    Dec 18, 2019
    Ecuador despierta
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    AJ+Español
    @ajplusespanol
    Dec 18, 2019
    “Vienen a nuestros territorios, contaminan nuestra agua y nuestro aire”. Helena Gualinga, una activista de 17 años, denuncia así al Gobierno ecuatoriano por ceder territorios de pueblos originarios a empresas.
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    Helena Gualinga
    @SumakHelena
    Jan 3, 2020
    So happy I got to meet these amazing activists! ✊🏽
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    Isabelle Axelsson
    @isabelle_ax
    Jan 3, 2020
    The first strike of the decade (week 72) was spent talking with many amazing activists (like @SumakHelena), doing warmup exercises (it’s cold) and ignoring aggressive populist media (we don’t want to feed the fires). #FridaysForFuture