Under the guise of a land-titling project, Peru is breaking up and privatising indigenous common lands across the Andean highlands, writes Arthur Scarritt. While the law provides for communal titling and democratic votes, in practice there's no provision for communities to exercise these rights, and the many are being dispossessed in favour of large, 'efficient' market-oriented producers.
… eyes, brutal exploitation and even genocide. Europeans from Juan de Matienzo in …
Illegal gold mining in the Amazon has a devastating effect on indigenous peoples, writes Sarina Kidd. First the miners bring disease, deforestation and even murder. Then long after they have gone, communities are left to suffer deadly mercury poisoning. Now the UN has been called on to intervene.
… elderly. Five miners were later convicted of genocide. The Brazilian authorities have known …
Peru, notorious for its brutal exploitation of forests, oil and minerals, theft of indigenous lands and murder of eco-defenders, is an unlikely host for the COP20 climate talks, writes Alexander Reid Ross. Except that Peru's actions reflect the corporate land-grabbing agenda manifest in the false solutions on offer in Lima this week. It's a time for resistance, not compromise!
COP20 and corporate power - destroying the edifice of false climate solutions Alexander Reid Ross | 10th December 2014 News Peru Unfccc Land Grabs Corporations Farming Indigenous Peoples Trade USA …
Peru's Congress may soon approve a road through remote rainforest which is home to the country's last uncontacted tribes. The link to the Inter-Oceanic highway would open the area up to land grabs, wood cutting and gold mining, and expose vulnerable indigenous people to diseases to which they have no immunity.
Amazon: rainforest road threatens Peru's last isolated tribes Oliver Tickell | 1st December 2016 News Peru Indigenous Peoples Forests Transport Human Rights prohibido-cut.jpg Peru's Congress may soon …
A proposed $30 billion railway line linking the the Peruvian and Brazilian coasts threatens devastation to forests and indigenous tribes that lie along its route, and will add to wider pressures on land and forests.
'Deadly' trans-Amazon railway sparks fear among rainforest tribes The Ecologist | 16th June 2015 News Brazil Peru China Forests Indigenous Peoples Transport fotos ferrovia-cut.jpg A proposed $30 …
A month-long blockade of the Rio Tigre deep in the Peruvian Amazon has secured promises of compensation and cleanup for Peru's Kichwa communities who have suffered 40 years of contaminated waters from oil drilling operations in their remote Amazon region. But until the funds materialize, they are holding firm in their resolve.
… have destroyed Kichwa lands and committed "genocide" while "the state has never defended …