Ashaninkas: from invisible to protagonist ¦ The brave journey of Peruvian Amazonian indigenous people

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Through the DAS programme, the EU has successfully supported this experience in defence of the rights of indigenous peoples to participate and play a role as citizens.Finally, to end this journey of the Ashaninkas people from living in invisibility to becoming successful protagonists of their lives, we listen to the enthusiastic and emotional words of Ruth Buendía at the ceremony where she received the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2014 for protecting the area in which CARE is located:

"Therefore I speak to you, to remind the world that we are human beings, and that any beautiful word like justice, development and freedom, should be pronounced having us in mind."Ruth Buendia