The meeting was promoted by the United Nations Fund for Women - UNIFEM and by the Andean University Simón Bolivar. It gathered in Quito indigenous leaders from 9 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, belonging to 22 ethnic groups, to discuss the access of indigenous women to justice systems, and their relations with ancestral justice.

Left to right: Cristina Cucuri, Rosa Andi, Gilberto Grefa, Inés Bonilla, Rosa Ramos, Norma Mayo.