Javier El-Hage, chief legal and policy officer at the Human Rights Foundation: “The joint initiative is a significant step toward addressing the abuse against Awá Indigenous communities, considering that 10,000 of Ecuador’s Indigenous people (50 percent of their total population) have reportedly been victims of threats, intimidation, confinement and forced displacement in recent months. Although the Awá people are a priority attention group under Ecuadorean legislation and a special constitutional protection in Colombia, the presence of armed groups and illegal actors in their territories have led to these continued abuses on the Awá communities. To actually help protect them, we see it as positive that the Colombian and Ecuadorean governments are strengthening their institutional presence in the border area. Unfortunately, considering that the key drivers of violence and abuse against the Awá Indigenous communities are…”
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