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Amazon Watch is a nonprofit organization founded in 1996 to protect the rainforest and advance the rights of indigenous peoples in the Amazon Basin. We partner with indigenous and environmental organizations in campaigns for human rights, corporate accountability and the preservation of the Amazon's ecological systems.

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Amazonian Leaders: Climate Week Sponsors Complicit in Destruction of Amazon Rainforest, Indigenous Land

Inter-American Court of Human Rights Takes Case on Ecuadorian Amazon's Last Indigenous Peoples in Voluntary Isolation

Statement on BNP Paribas Pledge To End New Financing for Amazon Oil Drilling

Highest Ecuadorian Court Finds Decree 751 Unconstitutional, Would Have Allowed Oil Drilling in Area Protected for Isolated Peoples

Indigenous Communities Confront Ecuadorian Government and International Financiers at Oil and Energy Conference

COP26 Agreement Fails to Address Climate Emergency, Take Necessary Steps to Protect Amazon and Respect Indigenous Peoples' Rights

Jeff Bezos Donates $120 Million to Fight Homelessness, Then Invests $500 Million to Make It Worse

'I Was Mostly In It for Her': New Details in Rape Probe Embroiling Top GOP Official, Moms for Liberty Co-Founder

Republicans Advance Boebert Plan Forcing Taxpayers to Foot Bill for Big Oil's Mess

The Supreme Court Could Blow Up the Tax Code With Moore vs US

US House to Vote on Declaring 'Anti-Zionism Is Antisemitism'

'Huge Loss' as Gaza Luminary Refaat Alareer 'Assassinated' by Israel

Trump Pledges to Be a Dictator on 'Day One'

Don't Let Fabricated Outrage 'Distract From Genocidal Violence in Gaza,' Says Naomi Klein

Mehdi Hasan Booted From MSNBC After 'Daring to Practice Journalism'

'Death Zone': Over 700 Killed in 24 Hours as Israeli Bombing Blitz of Gaza Rages