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A new legislative proposal, criticized by opponents as a step backwards in recognizing the rights and protections of uncontacted and recently contacted Indigenous people, is currently under debate in Peru’s congress. The controversial proposal, which seeks to alter the current Law for the Protection of Indigenous Peoples in Isolation and Initial Contact Situations (known as […]
"Water is part of our culture, it is intrinsic to the Amazon," says José Manuyama, a member of a river defence committee in his native Requena, a town
For years, Ruth Alipaz has been fighting against the Chepete-El Bala hydroelectric project. The project involves the construction of two reservoirs that together would flood at least 66,200 hectares (163,500 acres) of land and displace more than 5,000 people, the majority of them Indigenous communities. “They came to my village to threaten me because of […]
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El accidente ocurrido hoy en las aguas del río Huallaga se suma a una larga lista de naufragios que ocurrieron por la desidia del ser humano.