Peru
Daughter of Jorge Rios, who was murdered in September 2014, along with Edwin Chota and 2 other Asheninka leaders. Diana has continued the fight for land title in the Saweto – Alto Tamaya community in Peru.
Diana received the Alex Soros Foundation Award for Environmental Activism in New York City in November 2014. The following month, after returning to Saweto for the first time since the death of her father, she was elected as treasurer by assembly.
“The loggers and the government didn’t want to give us our title. They ignore us. We don’t have anything. All we can do is fight. Thank you so much for giving me this responsibility. I will always be fighting for Saweto,” Diana Rios.
On 1st September 2014 Edwin Chota and three indigenous Asháninka leaders were murdered while defending their forests. They had been denouncing the increasingly violent illegal loggers operating on their ancestral lands for over a decade with little recognition from the government. Through their widows, family and friends we learn about their ongoing fight for land […]