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The aim of this Guide is to provide a brief introduction to human rights and sustainable development issues in Peru
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.
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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.
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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".
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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.
more...Image: Racism Kills Tribal People: Survival's Stamp It Out campaign
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
more...+ '27 dead' as blockade broken up by authorities + OneWorld Guide to Peru |
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.
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04.02.2009
Earthquake-resistant houses designed by a Peruvan architect have won has won first prize at a pan-American architecture exhibition.
more...From: Progressio |
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.
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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.
more...From: Survival International Italia |
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.
more...From: SciDev.Net Related topics/regions: [Ecuador] [Colombia] |
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.
more...+ Supreme Court gives go-ahead to mine – tribe vows resistance From: Survival International Italia Related topics/regions: [United Kingdom] [Malaysia] [India] [France] Image: Vedanta protest, London, 2008
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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.
more...From: Advocacy Project |
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.
more...From: Global Exchange Related topics/regions: [United States] [South Korea] [Panama] [Colombia] Image: © American Friends Service Committee
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