Peru: demands grow for Amazon massacre truth commission
The United Nations Committee for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination issued a formal recommendation Aug. 28 that the government of Peru open an “exhaustive, objective and impartial investigation, including indigenous represetatives” into the June 5 deadly violence that ensued when National Police troops broke up an indigenous road blockade at Devil’s Curve in Amazonas region—a [...]
Peru has high maternal mortality rate, rights group says
Comments OffPregnant women in Peru are dying at scandalous rates, according to the author of an Amnesty International report into maternal mortality in the South American country.
The report, “Fatal Flaws: Barriers to Maternal Health in Peru” found that hundreds of poor, rural and indigenous pregnant women are dying because they are being denied the same health [...]
Peru's indigenous people win one round over developers
Comments OffLogging and other activities ruin tribal lands and set off protests that lead to the revocation of laws to further open the Amazon to outsiders. ‘The Indians beat them by a knockout,’ one analyst says
Peruvian tribal leader Luis Pizango says private investment in his part of the Amazon has brought only misery to him and [...]
