On 24 August, a two-stage consultation process between the Environment Ministry (MINAM) and the Unity Pact (representing seven Andean and Amazonian indigenous organisations) regarding the regulations for implementing Peru’s...
Read MoreAccording to a report published recently by Amnesty International (AI), there are 15 documented cases of Peruvian women human rights defenders whose rights have been abused between 2017 and 2018. The report, entitled “Valiente:...
Read MoreTo commemorate International Women’s Day, the association of women affected by forced sterilisation during the Fujimori years (1990-2000) took to the streets with other feminist collectives to continue their campaign for...
Read MoreIn a recent working paper, published in November, Oxfam Perú and Acción Internacional para la Salud link together Peru’s highly inequitable tax system and the incidence of cancer among women. Each year some 45,000 cases of...
Read MoreIn the past couple of weeks, women’s rights campaigners in Peru have had cause for celebration as the judiciary has taken steps to redress two notorious cases. On 13 December, the High Court of Lima North decided in the case of...
Read MoreOn 7 November, members of Congress, mainly belonging to Fuerza Popular, put forward a bill to banish from the lexicon of the state all reference to the word ‘gender’. The move has provoked criticism even in the conservative...
Read MoreRecent research by the Canadian IDRC and the Fundación Futuro Latinoamericano, published in Spanish in June, documents the ways in which women are particularly vulnerable to the problems brought about by climate change. Of four...
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