Articles

  • 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?

  • The election: what's left?

    6 June 2016

    In many ways, the Peruvian election has proved a shot in the arm for the Peruvian left. It is by far the best electoral result for the left in the last 30 years

  • Analysis of first round voting

    6 June 2016

    We include a reference here to a very useful article published in the Washington Post by Tomás Dosek and Martiza Paredes on the background to the second round.

  • Camisea: Report slams its social impacts

    6 June 2016

    In a piece written for The Guardian, David Hill picks up on an annual report written by a panel of experts on impacts at the Camisea gasfields.

  • PSG Aims

    The Peru Support Group exists to promote social inclusion, sustainable development and the observance of human rights in Peru. To that end the PSG highlights shortcomings in observance of established norms, whether international or local in nature, in its research, advocacy and publications. In so doing, it underscores the relationships that exist within the political system, how institutions work, and the effectiveness of policies that aim to reduce poverty and inequality within the context of sustainable development.

  • Historical Overview

    Over the past century Peru has suffered a series of autocratic governments and a civil war in which nearly 70,000 people died. Many of the country's ongoing political and social problems are a legacy of its somewhat turbulent past. 

  • Human Rights

    Human rights violations were widespread during the twenty years after the initiation of armed conflict in 1980. Efforts to convict perpetrators since the war's end have made only limited progress. Today, concerns remain over the treatment of those engaged in social protest, particularly against strategically important investment projects.

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