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Marking 50 years since the 1973 global oil crisis

The History Hour

CHAPTER

Defending Our Land: The Fight Against Oil Exploitation

This chapter tells the inspiring story of the Saliacu community's fight against an oil company that threatened their land in the Ecuadorian Amazon rainforest. Led by women, they formed an alliance with other communities, took the matter to court, and ultimately received a positive response from the Inter-American court of human rights.

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