Ruth Zenaida Buendía Mestoquiari is an Asháninka Peruvian activist and the first woman president of "Central Asháninka del Río Ene", an organization which aims to legally represent and legitimize the 18 indigenous communities of the Asháninka people around the Ene River and the 33 annexes around it.
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Ruth Zenaida Buendía Mestoquiari is an Asháninka Peruvian activist and the first woman president of "Central Asháninka del Río Ene", an organization which aims to legally represent and legitimize the 18 indigenous communities of the Asháninka people around the Ene River and the 33 annexes around it. She was awarded the 2014 Goldman Environmental Prize for having led a campaign on behalf of the Asháninka people to oppose large-scale dams that would displace indigenous communities and endanger the environment.
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