NEWS

• PEP appeal to new government

  22 April 2018

   
  The Plataforma Europa Peru (PEP) has issued an urgent appeal to the new Vizcarra government, urging it to adopt an active policy for the protection of human rights defenders (HRDs). It suggests adherence to the guidelines set out by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) and other international organisations.

• Government to outline policy priorities

  22 April 2018

  The fledgling government of Martín Vizcarra will, on May 2, present an outline of its policies to Congress in the hope that the legislature will provide it with a vote of approval. To that end, Prime Minister César Villanueva has been holding meetings with the main party blocs in Congress over the past few days.

• Shipibo leader assassinated

  22 April 2018

  Olivia Arévalo Lomas, a cultural leader of the Shipibo ethnic group, was gunned down in her home near Yarinacocha (Ucayali) on April 19. Her death resulted in statements of condemnation in Congress and by the Omudsman’s Office (Defensoría del Pueblo).

• Environmental management: a new specialist court in Madre de Dios

  15 April 2018

  A significant event as regards environmental management took place on 1 April: the launch of the first specialised environmental court in Peru, in Puerto Maldonado.

• Jungle oil remediation: progress reported

  15 April 2018

  Puinamudt, or Pueblos Indígenas Amazónicas Unidas en Defensa de sus Territorios, is an indigenous organisation based in the Amazon with a history of sustained work in resisting environmental damage in the area and threats to livelihoods and rights. Its most recent report is unusually encouraging.

• Mining under the microscope

  08 April 2018

  Cooperacción, the Lima-based NGO which has supported many communities’ claims against those of mining companies, has just published a compilation that provides a comprehensive account of struggles over the last ten years, 2008 to date.

• Peru hosts hemispheric summit

  08 April 2018

  Lima will play host this week to the Summit of the Americas. According to the foreign ministry, 20 heads of state had confirmed their participation as of 5 April. Among them is Donald Trump

• IACHR holds hearings on HRD protection in the Andes

  24 March 2018

  On 26 February, as part of the 167th hearings of the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights (IACHR), representatives from human rights organisations from across the Andean region presented a new report entitled ‘Defending the Territory is our Right’. This documents a series of cases and highlights the way that human rights defenders (HRDs) working on land rights and the environment are at risk.

• Climate change law welcomed

  24 March 2018

  On 15 March, the Peruvian Congress unanimously approved the Climate Change Law, making it the fourth country in Latin America and the Caribbean to have one. This law in principle strengthens governance on climate policy.

• Meeting of women victims of forced sterilization

  17 March 2018

  On 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 Forced Sterilizations).

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