Mariana Yumbay

Yumbay is a Kichwa woman from Bolívar Province in Ecuador. She came from a very supportive family who did not see her ethnicity or gender as a bar to becoming successful.{{Citation |last=Yallico |first=Diego Jara, Mariana Yumbay |title=An Interview with Dr. Mariana Yumbay Yallico, Human Rights Activist in Ecuador |date=2022 |url=https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-edit/10.4324/9781003198918-3/interview-dr-mariana-yumbay-yallico-human-rights-activist-ecuador-diego-jara-mariana-yumbay-yallico |pages=23–38|work=Gender Dynamics in Transboundary Water Governance |access-date=2023-12-01 |publisher=Routledge |doi=10.4324/9781003198918-3 |isbn=978-1-003-19891-8|doi-access=free }}

The Indigenous Women's Biodiversity Network was formed in 1998 during COP4.{{Cite web |title=Indigenous Women's Biodiversity Network |url=https://www.iwbn-rmib.org/ |access-date=2023-12-01 |website=Indigenous Women's Biodiversity Network |language=en-US}} In 2007 Yumbay was lecturing at a university and she was the executive director of the Institute for Indigenous Sciences Pacari. Yumbay was at COP13.{{Cite web |date=2007 |title=Indigenous Women's Biodiversity Network |url=https://www.iwbn-rmib.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/IWBN-COP13-profiles-FINAL.pdf |access-date=1 December 2023 |website=Indigenous Women’s Biodiversity Network}} She was known as a militant in her province of Bolivar. She noted that the indigenous people had very little to show for the actions of politicians.{{Cite book |last1=Mijeski |first1=Kenneth J. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6KDp1cccxnoC&dq=mariana+yumbay&pg=PA105 |title=Pachakutik and the Rise and Decline of the Ecuadorian Indigenous Movement |page=128|last2=Beck |first2=Scott H. |date=2011-04-12 |publisher=Ohio University Press |isbn=978-0-89680-280-3 |language=en}}

She took on the difficult task of negotiating water rights between countries. These rights are not dependent on national boundaries alone but on geography and the history and heritage of the indigenous people who live there. One of her concerns when she was involved in the Binational Commission for Integrated Water Resources Management of Transboundary Waters between Peru and Ecuador was to ensure that the voices of indigenous women were heard. Yumbay was a champion of the power given by the constitution given to traditional justice. Internally territories are allowed to uphold indigenous ideas such as ama llulla, ama killa, ama shwa (not to lie, be lazy or steal).{{Cite web |title=Indigenous Justice in Ecuador - IWGIA - International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs |url=https://www.iwgia.org/en/ecuador/4977-indigenous-justice-in-ecuador.html |access-date=2023-12-02 |website=www.iwgia.org}}

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The President of Ecuador Guillermo Lasso brought in the constitution clause number 148 known as mutual death in May 2023 when he knew that he was about to be impeached. This required all of the existing Ecuador's National Assembly members to stand for re-election.{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2023-05-17 |title=What is cross-death, and what does it mean for Lasso in Ecuador? |url=https://www.riotimesonline.com/brazil-news/mercosur/ecuador/what-is-cross-death-and-what-does-it-mean-for-lasso-in-ecuador/ |access-date=2023-11-18 |website=The Rio Times |language=en-US |archive-date=2023-11-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231119002445/https://www.riotimesonline.com/brazil-news/mercosur/ecuador/what-is-cross-death-and-what-does-it-mean-for-lasso-in-ecuador/ |url-status=live }} Yumbay was one of the names who returned to contest the new elections. As a former judge of the National Court of Justice this raised some comment.{{Cite news |date=20 June 2023 |title=Trajano Andrade, former minister of Correismo, former judge of the CNJ, Mariana Yumbay, and Renán Borbúa, return to the political scene |work=La Hora |url=https://www.lahora.com.ec/pais/elecciones-presidenciales-legislativas-anticipadas/}}

Henry Kronfle became the President of the re-formed National Assembly of 137 representatives in 2023. At his election there were only nine members who voted against him including Rosa Baltazar, Adriana García, Lucia Posso, Fabiola Sanmartín, Andrea Rivadeneira, Carmen Tiupul, Luzmila Abad and Yumbay.{{Cite web |date=2023-11-17 |title=Nueve legisladores no votaron por Henry Kronfle |url=https://www.larepublica.ec/blog/2023/11/17/nueve-legisladores-no-votaron-por-henry-kronfle/ |access-date=2023-11-22 |language=es |archive-date=2023-11-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231120204554/https://www.larepublica.ec/blog/2023/11/17/nueve-legisladores-no-votaron-por-henry-kronfle/ |url-status=live }} The assembly also formed its commissions including the one on Transparency, Citizen Participation and Social Control. Yumbay was one of those elected together with others including Carmen Tiupul and Lucía Posso.{{Cite web |title=Así fueron integradas las 15 comisiones en la Asamblea Nacional; cada una eligió a sus autoridades |url=https://www.vistazo.com/politica/nacional/asi-fueron-integradas-las-15-comisiones-en-la-asamblea-nacional-cada-una-eligio-a-sus-autoridades-YM6349540 |access-date=2023-11-22 |website=www.vistazo.com |language=es-EC |archive-date=2023-11-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231120180059/https://www.vistazo.com/politica/nacional/asi-fueron-integradas-las-15-comisiones-en-la-asamblea-nacional-cada-una-eligio-a-sus-autoridades-YM6349540 |url-status=live }}

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Category:Members of the National Assembly (Ecuador)

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