Full Coverage: Peru

11.11.2009 In a striking example of successful community-based advocacy, a survivor of Peru's "dirty war" against terrorism has won election as the first mayor of Putis, a village that suffered one of the country's worst-ever massacres.

10.11.2009 The Peruvian government’s unprecedented attempt to destroy Peru’s Amazon Indian movement has been condemned by indigenous leaders around the world.

10.09.2009 One hundred days after the "Amazon’s Tiananmen", international pressure on Peru's government to overhaul its relationship with the country's indigenous population is mounting.

07.09.2009 A giant Anglo-French oil project in Peru’s Amazon is at risk after the country’s Indians launched a court bid to stop it.

02.09.2009 The UN has told Peru’s government it should not allow oil and gas drilling on indigenous peoples’ land without their "informed consent".

26.08.2009 A group of Peruvian protestors, arrested and accused of "terrorism" after campaigning for the rights of local people to have a say over a planned mine, have finally been released

26.08.2009 An article implying Peruvian Indians should be bombed with napalm has been named the "most racist article" published in the last year by the mainstream media.

12.08.2009 The first cases of swine flu have just been reported amongst Amazonian Indians, raising experts' fears of a devastating contagion amongst peoples with no immunity to outside diseases.

30.06.2009 Peru's government has given the green light to an Anglo-French company to drill for oil in the Amazon, just two weeks after more than 30 people died in protests against the exploitation of the rainforest.

19.06.2009 An eyewitness account of the killings in Peru which caused shockwaves around the world has been published by Survival International. The report contains shocking photos by two Belgians, Marijke Deleu and Thomas Quirynen, who were caught up in the violence and were themselves shot at.
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17.06.2009 Senior figures in Peru are clamping down on both Peruvian and foreign NGOs in the wake of the violent protests which erupted in the country earlier this month.

10.06.2009 As protests by indigenous peoples continue in Peru, their leader, Alberto Pizango, took refuge at the Nicaraguan embassy in Lima.

08.06.2009 Oil companies operating in the Peruvian Amazon have been urged to suspend operations as the country comes to terms with the worst political violence since the Shining Path insurgency in the 1980s.
+ '27 dead' as blockade broken up by authorities
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10.04.2009 Human rights advocates in Peru are celebrating a major victory following the conviction of former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori for his role in two massacres in the early 1990s.

09.03.2009 The French company tipped to transform Peru’s economy is having its income from oil revenues frozen in neighbouring Ecuador, it has been announced.

04.02.2009 Earthquake-resistant houses designed by a Peruvan architect have won has won first prize at a pan-American architecture exhibition.

07.01.2009 An Anglo-French oil company is poised to send more than 800 workers into a remote part of the Peruvian Amazon inhabited by uncontacted Indians.

07.11.2008 Uncontacted tribes in the most remote parts of the Peruvian Amazon 'could disappear within three years', an expert on the tribes has warned.

27.08.2008 Growing global demand for oil and gas is leading to an unprecedented level of exploration and development in the western Amazon, according to a study.

08.08.2008 Three companies have been named "worst for abusing tribal peoples’ rights" in a statement marking the UN Day for Indigenous Peoples on 9 August.
+ Supreme Court gives go-ahead to mine – tribe vows resistance