DENUNCIATION BY THE WOMEN’S AND FEMINIST MOVEMENTS OF ECUADOR OF SEXUAL AGGRESSION AS A STRATEGY OF THE POLITICAL CONTROL OF WOMEN : THE CASE OF ACCIÓN ECOLÓGICA

As organizations and collectives that make up the Ecuadorian women’s and feminist movement, in solidarity with defenders of human rights and of nature, we express our support to the comrade of Acción Ecológica who suffered a sexual attack, and we denounce this which we consider this act as retaliation politics. Indeed, there is clear evidence that it was a planned aggression aimed at punishing, intimidating, and intimidating other activists who appear publicly as leaders who resist the expropriation and exploitation of natural resources on land of Indigenous peoples or peasants of high biodiversity.