It is nearly a year since the government launched the so-called ‘Operation Mercury’ in Madre de Dios. The programme was planned as a two-year effort to control illegal gold mining and the abuses to which it leads....
Read MoreOn 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...
Read MoreOn 16 and 16 March women from Iquitos, Pucallpa, Cajamarca, Piura, Cusco, Ayacucho, Huancavelica, Junín, Huánuco and Lima arrived in the capital for an event organized by GREF (Group that Follows the Process for Reparations for...
Read MoreLike in many other cities around the world, Lima saw the mobilisation of thousands of women to demand justice on International Women’s Day. Although not as numerous as the 5 million women who took to the streets of several...
Read MoreOn Sunday 22 of October Peru carried out its latest census. A lot of discussion had filled news outposts even before it began as there were questions which were considered inappropriate such as the one on ethnic...
Read MoreLima is the fifth most dangerous mega-city (defined as having 10 million inhabitants or more) in which to be a woman according to a study by the Thompson Reuters Foundation. It follows after Cairo, Karachi, Kinshasa and Delhi....
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