Center for Economic and Social Rights: Lessons From Ecuador - Challenging Austerity and Human Rights Erosion at the IMF
October 16, 2019
October 16, 2019
NEW YORK, Oct. 16 -- The Center for Economic and Social Rights issued the following news release:
Starting on October 3rd, thousands of Ecuadoreans took to the streets for ten days, demanding an end to an IMF-imposed austerity package, including the elimination of fuel subsidies and public sector wage cuts. Indigenous activists, who led the protests, also condemned the ongoing plundering of their lands and violations of their economic and social rights by extractivist oil and mining . . .
Starting on October 3rd, thousands of Ecuadoreans took to the streets for ten days, demanding an end to an IMF-imposed austerity package, including the elimination of fuel subsidies and public sector wage cuts. Indigenous activists, who led the protests, also condemned the ongoing plundering of their lands and violations of their economic and social rights by extractivist oil and mining . . .