DEPUTY DIRECTOR FOR LATIN AMERICA

Monica Chuji Gualinga, is a Kichwa from the Ecuadorian Amazon and belongs to the Sarayaku community of Sucumbios. In her service to the Ecuadorian State as Constituent Assemblywoman, she promoted the recognition in the Constitution of Ecuador the Human Right to Water, the Right to Free, Prior and Informed Consultation of Indigenous Peoples, the Plurinational nature of the State and Indigenous Justice. In 2013 she was elected Vice President of the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of the Ecuadorian Amazon-CONFENIAE. She is an expert on Indigenous Peoples Rights, an activist for human rights and nature, and a trainor.

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