At a side event during the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, 2022-23 Advocate Isabel Flota moderated a discussion with Indigenous women including fellow HRAP participant Dayana Blanco Quiroga on the report Between Neglect and Exploitation: The Case of Indigenous Communities in the Peruvian Amazon by the DC-based NGO Free the Slaves.
Dayana shared with attendees a saying in the Aymara language: “Pacha mamaxa jani jiwasampi jakaqispawa. Jiwasasti jamiwa jani pachamamapi jakaña atsnati.” The English translation is: “We need to live in harmony with Mother Earth. She can live without us, but we cannot live without her.
