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Unión de Afectados y Afectadas por las Operaciones Petroleras de Texaco (UDAPT)

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Amazon Girls Won a Court Order to Snuff Out Ecuador's Gas Flares

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🇪🇨 Ecuador

Nine girls from Ecuador's oil country won a 2021 court order to shut down the open gas flares burning beside their homes, and five years on they are still fighting to make the state obey.

486flaresActive gas flares in the Ecuadorian Amazon (environment ministry count, cited by Amnesty)
749patientsCancer patients registered by UDAPT near the flares
183flaresFlares Petroecuador says it has eliminated
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