TURUCU, Ecuador (AP) — In the Indigenous community of Turucu, near the active Cotacachi volcano in northern Ecuador, soccer had always been a man’s thing. The only gleaming green field belongs to them ...

With rue in hand, guided by the sacred smoke of incense and the legacies of their grandmothers, the Indigenous women of the Ecuadorian Amazon met in the streets last week to commemorate their ongoing ...

Ecuador face Colombia in the Matchday 2 of the 2025 CONMEBOL Women's Nations League. Get all the details on when, where, and ...

For these women, environmentalism and women's rights are closely linked: Past drilling projects have resulted in increased assaults, cancer, and infertility. On the evening of January 4 2018, Patricia ...

Indigenous women fight for the ball during a "handball with anaco" match in the Indigenous community of Turucu, Ecuador, Friday, June 14, 2024. One year ago, a group of women decided to create a new ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. This article is more than 4 years old. Ecuadorian researcher María Claudia Segovia Salcedo, in Cayambe Coca National Park, Ecuador ...

July 11 (UPI) --When Bish Metals, a subsidiary of Mitsubishi, first came to northern Ecuador's Intag cloud forest in 1990, the area's residents welcomed the Japanese multinational. The mine developers ...

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