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Peru rowing backwards (fast) on prior consultation
28 MAY 2013.
Sweeping exclusions threaten indigenous communities' long-delayed right to prior consultation, dividing the government and leaving investments open to prolonged resistance.
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Accelerating investment without social and environmental checks?
04 JUNE 2013.
José de Echave, former environment minister and now director of Cooperacción, warns that weaker rules on land expropriation and environmetal impacts could fuel more social conflict.
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Repsol, energy sovereignty and economic policy space in Peru
3 JUNE 2013.
Aborted state plans to buy energy assets showed the political leverage of big business winning out President Humala’s promised economic ‘transformation’.
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Women's rights: Inequality, stereotypes, reproduction
UPDATE 156.
A look at the key issues affecting women's rights - including violence, authorities' emphasis on preserving the patriarchal family, and the approach of the Ministry for Women
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Villarán's narrow victory in the Lima recall battle
UPDATE 156.
What explains the turn-around in favour of Lima's centre-left mayor, and what does the result mean for governance in the capital?
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Can Humala defy gravity?
Update 155.
How to explain the president's popularity given that he has pinned his colours to the maintenance of foreign investment, overwhelmingly benefiting the top few per cent of Peru’s population?
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Event: Mining and development in the Andes
4 March 2013, London
A one-day conference featuring international speakers, who will explore alternative strategies for mining-based economies. -
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The Politics of 'Indulto'
Update 154.
The political battle surrounding the indulto for former President Alberto Fujimori continues to be waged unremittingly in the Peruvian media. The indulto is an official pardon conceded by the president to those who are at death’s door or whose life prospects are seriously impaired by their being held prisoner.
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Peru and the Persistence of Inequality
Update 154.
The Peru Support Group’s annual conference this year saw Latin American and European academics and development professionals come together to discuss the causes and consequences of inequality in Peru. In this article we synthesise the main points made by the various speakers.
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Case Study Launch: Torture at the Río Blanco Mine
The Peru Support Group (PSG) today launches an academic case study examining human rights violations and community resistance to a mining project in northern Peru. The initiative differs from previous analyses of the conflict in that it explains the dispute, and subsequent efforts to obtain justice for the victims, principally through primary source material, including court documents, diplomatic cables, videos, photos and victim testimony.
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