indigenous peoples

The Araweté, living in the Xingu basin in the state of Pará, established sustained “contact” in the late 1970s after their land was opened up by the so-called TransAmazon...

Through a public announcement, AIDESEP denounced a series of political measures that affect seriously the indigenous peoples integrity and survival.

Pope Francis stressed the need to  reconcile development, both social and cultural, with the protection of indigenous peoples and their territories, "especially when...

Francis, the first Pope from Latin America, struck a rather different note - for indigenous peoples around the world, for land rights that mean something in practice, for...

Even more alarming is how the park has been divided into different zones by the Management Plan approved in November 2016. Instead of being a “strictly protected zone”...

The archipelago nation's constitution recognizes its indigenous peoples, but the government has ignored their rights for most of the country's 71-year existence

Problems caused by operations in this region tend to only make Peruvian or international media when there is some kind of “spill” - oil painting black the forest, fish, fauna.

In this occasion we gladly share a contribution to the III Continental Summit of Indigenous Communication of Abya Yala, Cochabamba, Bolivia, from November 14th to 18th, 2016.

CORPI, a federation representing nine indigenous peoples, is also demanding that the right to prior consultation, as the process is termed in Peruvian law, is respected.

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