NEWS

• Cabinet changes

  11 December 2016

  The resignation of Mariano González puts Jorge Nieto in charge of the defence ministry. Nieto’s place at the culture minister has been taken by Salvador del Solar.

• Forced sterilisation case knocked back

  11 December 2016

  On 7 December, Prosecutor (Fiscal) ruled that the case brought by 77 women against ex-president Alberto Fujimori and three of his ministers of health should not proceed.

• PPK to visit Tambo valley to try to resolve Tia Maria impasse

  04 December 2016

  President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski has announced that he intends to visit Cocachacra, in the Tambo valley, in order to discuss with farmers possible solutions to their water problems.

• The return of Nadine

  04 December 2016

  Following adverse public reaction to her trip to Geneva to take up an appointment with the UN World Food Programme, Nadine Heredia, the former first lady, returned to Lima last week.

• Mining investment down for third year running

  04 December 2016

  Speaking in Washington DC on 3 December in public hearings convened by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Peruvian human rights experts criticised the Kuczynski government for not bringing an immediate end to contracts by which the police provide security services for mining companies.

• Human rights organisations denounce police contracts with mining companies

  04 December 2016

  Speaking in Washington DC on 3 December in public hearings convened by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Peruvian human rights experts criticised the Kuczynski government for not bringing an immediate end to contracts by which the police provide security services for mining companies.

• Detainees freed in Cordillera del Condor

  27 November 2016

  Three people have been freed who were taken captive on 14 November by indigenous groups in the Cordillera del Cóndor region (Amazonas) in northern Peru.

• Peru invites UN and IACHR specialists to visit the sites of oil spills

  27 November 2016

  Justice Minister Marisol Pérez Tello revealed in a radio interview for IdeeleRadio that the government has extended an official invitation to the UN Special Rapporteur on Toxic Waste, Baskut Tuncak, and to representatives of the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights (IACHR), to visit the sites of the oil spills in the Amazon.

• Experts share views on climate change and the problem of water scarcity

  27 November 2016

  An international meeting was held in Lima on 23 November to discuss ways of defending the use of increasingly scarce water by vulnerable communities. The meeting drew experts from Argentina and Colombia as well as representatives from communities across the Peruvian Andes.

• University Law battle intensifies

  20 November 2016

  Plans have been under way for weeks to derail the legislation passed under the Humala government to reform university governance. Fujimori’s Fuerza Popular, allied with APRA, long ago decided that the attempts to tighten the regulation of higher education needed to be stopped.

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