NEWS

• PERUMIN 34 meets in Arequipa

  22 September 2019

  The week of 16 September has been given over in Arequipa to PERUMIN 34 - a massive gathering 16-20 September of business and state, with 60,000 expected to attend to visit exhibitions and the numerous presentations. The title of the event is 'Mining, Science, Innovation, Technology and Education'.

• Peruvian testimony on human rights and corporations in the extractives sector

  22 September 2019

  The United Nations has been sponsoring annual regional events on the issue of Business and Human Rights. The most recent, the fourth such event, occurred in CEPAL in Santiago earlier this month (3-4 September).

• Fujimoristas devise plans to thwart Vizcarra

  16 September 2019

   With time fast running out to find a solution to Peru's constitutional gridlock over bringing forward the date for general elections from 2021 to next year, the opposition parties are stepping up the tempo of their campaign to thwart President Martín Vizcarra's proposal, first announce in his Independence Day speech on 28 July. 

• Indigenous human rights defenders under attack in Huanuco

  16 September 2019

  On 9 September, Ashaninka leader Polico Díaz Sambache was reportedly attacked and kidnapped en route to meet a delegation headed by the Ministry of Agriculture. The delegation had travelled to the area for the purpose of continuing the process of legal community recognition. Díaz Sambache is the vice-president of the Community Nueva Austria in Huánuco region, and has been representing his community in the quest for legal recognition.

• Nuevo Peru outlines mining policy

  16 September 2019

  With an eye to the current discussion over a new mining law and this week’s mining conference in Arequipa, Nuevo Perú has produced a document outlining its policy with respect to this sector. The left’s presidential candidate in the 2016 elections, Veronika Mendoza, spoke about priorities in an interview in La República last week. 

• Law threatens to disenfranchise Peruvians living abroad

  07 September 2019

  Fernando Tuesta, the former president of the electoral authority ONPE and head of the special commission that designed reforms to the political and electoral systems, has drawn attention to the fact that changes to the law that passed Congress earlier this year effectively disenfranchise nearly a million Peruvians living abroad.

• Amazon fires expose weakness of Peru's defences

  07 September 2019

  Peru has so far escaped the uncontrollable fires that have devastated other South American countries over recent weeks. But the flames have not been far away. Fires have wrought major destruction in Acre (Brazil) and Pando (Bolivia), regions that border on Madre de Dios. However, the proximity of these conflagrations has underlined Peru’s vulnerability.

• Tia Maria: date set for hearing

  07 September 2019

  The latest news on Tía María is that the Consejo de Minería has announced that it will rule by the end of October on whether the project should go ahead. There will be hearings from both sides of the debate (the communities of the Tambo valley and Southern Peru Copper) during October followed by a verdict.

• Indigenous organisations' proposals included in climate change regulations

  07 September 2019

  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 Climate Change Law concluded with an agreement involving partial or total acceptance of the 152 proposals presented by the indigenous organisations.

• Culture ministry sets penalties for infringement of law on indigenous people's rights to live in isolation

  18 August 2019

  More than a decade after Congress approved Law 28736 for the protection of Peru’s few remaining indigenous peoples who choose to live in total isolation, the ministry of culture has set out the sanctions, including fines up to 4 million soles, for enforced contact or unauthorised entry into their territory.

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