Indigenous women from Ecuador bring concerns on mining abuses, free trade to Parliament Hill

Source:
CBC

Brent Forrester, CBC News

Indigenous women from Ecuador are in Ottawa this week raising concerns a proposed free trade agreement could enable human rights abuses by Canadian mining companies operating on their ancestral lands.

The delegation travelled thousands of kilometres from the rural reaches of the Ecuadorian Amazon to Canada's capital city, bringing what they say is an urgent message of grave concern to the doorstep of Parliament Hill.

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