Articles

• Human rights defenders 'on dangerous ground'

  10 July 2016

  A new report by Global Witness covers 16 countries, documenting violence against human rights defenders in 2015. Peru has the fourth highest number of documented activist deaths. Twelve people lost their lives last year, of which eleven were related to mining or other extractive activities. Since 2002, 80% of the 69 people killed in Peru were linked to extractives.

• Forced Sterilisation victims to get their day in court

  10 July 2016

  After more than 14 years seeking justice, the victims of the forced sterilisation programme in the 1990s might soon have their day in court. Public Prosecutor Marcelita Gutiérrez is due to present the results of her investigation this Monday, 11 July. In May 2015, she was tasked with investigating the wrongdoing that took place at the behest of the regime of Alberto Fujimori (1990-2000).

• Climate change: Peru sets out its stall

  3 July 2016

  Peru is one of the world’s countries most vulnerable to the effects of climate change. A voluminous report has just been published on advances in policy on climate change in the period since 2010.

• Memorial event for Lord Avebury

  3 July 2016

  A memorial event was held on 30 June for Lord Avebury at the Royal Institution in London. Eric Avebury was president of the Peru Support Group from 2002 until 2012 when he had to give up because of ill health.

• Plus ca change - How Peruvian elites stay on top

  3 July 2016

  As Peru prepares for a change of government on July 28, the question once again poses itself as to how Peruvian elites, particularly those linked to extractive industries, maintain their dominance over policy-making in the economic sphere.

• Las Bambas: one step forward

  19 June 2016

  On 15 June, El Peruano (the official government gazette) published an important new norm governing the difficult proceedings at Las Bambas, the potentially huge Chinese-owned copper mine in Apurímac

• PPK walks mining tightrope

  19 June 2016

  The coming weeks and months will be crucial for Peru's future. How will the new team work on the tension between, on the one hand, reassuring mining investors, securing new projects and confirming hesitant firms already half involved, while, on the other, reassuring communities affected by mining that their interests will be taken fully into account?

• Award for Víctor Zambrano

  19 June 2016

  The work of Víctor Zambrano from the Madre de Dios region has been given international recognition last week by winning the National Geographic Award for Leadership in Conservation.

• Slow tally

  12 June 2016

  A description of how the voting system is organised.

• Candidates less than explicit on key social and environmental issues

  12 June 2016

  What were the key issues in the election from a social and environmental perspective? What did the two second round candidates have to say about these? What are the challenges that lie ahead for the next government?

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