{"id":12228,"date":"2023-11-29T13:55:57","date_gmt":"2023-11-29T13:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/29\/indigenous-community-in-ecuador-wins-legal-fight-to-reclaim-ancestral-land-after-more-than-80-years\/"},"modified":"2023-11-29T13:55:57","modified_gmt":"2023-11-29T13:55:57","slug":"indigenous-community-in-ecuador-wins-legal-fight-to-reclaim-ancestral-land-after-more-than-80-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/29\/indigenous-community-in-ecuador-wins-legal-fight-to-reclaim-ancestral-land-after-more-than-80-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Indigenous community in Ecuador wins legal fight to reclaim ancestral land after more than 80 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      An indigenous community has won a court battle to regain ownership over its ancestral homeland in the Ecuadorian Amazon, more than 80 years after they were displaced because of war.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      The Siekopai were displaced during the Peru-Ecuador war in the 1940s.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Last September, the community, which has only about 800 members, filed a lawsuit against the Ecuadorian state, claiming it was violating their right to ancestral property, Amazon Frontline said.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      In its ruling on Friday, the Provincial Court of Sucumbios gave Ecuador\u2019s Ministry of Environment 45 days to deliver a property title to the Siekopai people for more than 104,000 acres of land, court documents show.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      \u201cThis is a historic moment for the Siekopai Nation,\u201d said Elias Piyahuaje, President of the Siekopai Nation of Ecuador. \u201cThe land of P\u00eb\u2019k\u00ebya has always been and will always be ours. For over 80 years, we have been fighting to get our land back.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      The ruling \u201cwill mark the first time that the Ecuadorian government delivers a land title to an indigenous community whose ancestral territory is found in a protected area,\u201d Amazon Frontline said, adding it \u201csets an invaluable precedent for all indigenous peoples fighting to recover their lands across Latin America and the world.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Piyahuaje said: \u201cWe are fighting for the preservation of our culture on this planet. Without this territory, we cannot exist as Siekopai people.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n<div>This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An indigenous community has won a court battle to regain ownership over its ancestral homeland in the Ecuadorian Amazon, more than 80 years after they were displaced because of war. The Siekopai were displaced during the Peru-Ecuador war in the 1940s. Last September, the community, which has only about 800 members, filed a lawsuit against <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":12229,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12228","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}