Full Coverage: Peru

05.06.2008 The exhumation of Peru's largest mass grave has opened a window on Peru's shadowy war against terrorism in the Andes, and encouraged indigenous families who lost relatives to demand justice and reparations.

10.04.2008 "Show your support of trade agreements that assure job security and decent livelihoods, and take a stand against the NAFTA model that displaces millions from their homes and jobs and furthers environmental destruction," urges a group advocating fairer globalization.

04.03.2008 With the help of Kusikuy -- a fair trade business importing hand-knit sweaters, scarves, and other garments made by artisans in South America -- Brattleboro, Vermont became the second Fair Trade Town in America.

30.01.2008 PUCALLPA, Peru, Jan 30 (IPS) - Residents of the Amazon jungle town of Orellana in Peru have filed a complaint against a logging company for using their identity documents to commit tax fraud in illegal timber sales worth more than $200,000.

15.01.2008 Peru will receive its first batch of XO laptops from the One Laptop per Child initiative in mid-February, despite pressure from rival company Intel to drop the order.

17.12.2007 A free trade agreement launched last week between Peru and the U.S. "fails to deliver on its development potential and could further deepen poverty for Peru's poorest," writes an international humanitarian group.

11.12.2007 Peruvian President Alan García is planning to introduce a new law that promotes foreign investment by diminishing rural indigenous communities' control over communally owned lands.

06.12.2007 The governments of Ecuador and Peru recently approved three new major oil projects threatening biodiversity and isolated indigenous groups in the Upper Amazon Basin.
From: Environment News Service

13.11.2007 Kehitysmaiden lapsille suunnattu tietokone löytää tiensä vielä tämän vuoden puolella myös Peruun, Meksikoon, Etiopiaan, Ruandaan, Haitiin ja Intiaan. Käyttöönoton lähestyessä alkuperäinen sadan dollarin kannettava on hinnaltaan jo lähes kaksinkertainen.

07.11.2007 Uruguay is the first country to place an official order for child-friendly laptops from the One Laptop Per Child initiative, and Peru looks set to follow.

02.11.2007 Big gas and oil companies in the Peruvian Amazon are contaminating the rivers and wildlife of the region, introducing disease and other problems into the lives of the indigenous people who reside there, explains journalist Kelly Hearn.

15.10.2007 Saying the Peruvian government has shown a complete lack of leadership on the issue, a team of forensic scientists is demanding that civil society be given authority to locate and identify some thousands of victims unaccounted for during the country's period of internal conflict.

12.10.2007 A referendum was held last month in three Peruvian communities that would be affected by the proposed opening of a pit mine. The vote revealed that a resounding 95 percent oppose the ecologically damaging operation.

10.10.2007 An early morning radio show broadcast in one of the most remote areas on Earth has successfully communicated issues varying from environmental conservation to women's rights for the last ten years.
From: New America Media

03.10.2007 A corruption probe has implicated some high-level Peruvian officials with personal ties to companies that were awarded no-bid contracts and provided overpriced emergency supplies for the earthquake rebuilding effort.

25.09.2007 Chile's Supreme Court ordered the extradition of former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori on charges of gross human rights abuses Friday, in a step that observers say marks a "huge step forward" for Chile, which has had a spotty human rights record itself.
From: Human Rights Watch

19.09.2007 Worried about the environmental impacts of mining in their community, voters in northern Peru overwhelmingly rejected a foreign companyÂ’s mining bid in a non-binding referendum Sunday. The government hopes to work with both sides to reach an agreement.

17.09.2007 Oil company plans to use megaphones to "communicate" with uncontacted tribes in Peruvian rainforest if crews are attacked have been dismissed as farcical.
From: Survival International

07.09.2007 Further development of a gas project in a protected area of the Amazon would have dire effects on the area's ecology and indigenous population, said Amazon Watch Thursday, warning development banks that financing the project would breach their own policies.
From: Amazon Watch

28.08.2007 An Amazonian indigenous group is using blogs and an online video to shine a light on a Peruvian company's illegal logging activities, which are degrading their environment.