http://uk.oneworld.net/article/country/604/ en_GB_uk Peru http://uk.oneworld.net/article/view/164016/1/ 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. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/85965 The Peruvian government’s unprecedented attempt to destroy Peru’s Amazon Indian movement has been condemned by indigenous leaders around the world. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/85748 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. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/85730 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. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/85712 The UN has told Peru’s government it should not allow oil and gas drilling on indigenous peoples’ land without their "informed consent". http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/85684 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 http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/85682 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. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/85608 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. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/85435 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. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/85408 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. + OneWorld Guide to Peru http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/85402 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. http://uk.oneworld.net/article/view/163044/1/ As protests by indigenous peoples continue in Peru, their leader, Alberto Pizango, took refuge at the Nicaraguan embassy in Lima. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/85381 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 + OneWorld Guide to Peru http://uk.oneworld.net/article/view/162647/1/ 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. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/85028 The French company tipped to transform Peru’s economy is having its income from oil revenues frozen in neighbouring Ecuador, it has been announced.