NEWS

• Fujimori to remain in jail

  26 November 2014

  Peru’s Supreme Court voted unanimously on November 24 to turn down an application by the lawyers acting for former president Alberto Fujimori to revise the sentence he received in March 2009.The Court said there was no legal basis for the revision.

• Fair-trade Mining

  23 November 2014

  For many, the idea of fair trade and gold mining in Peru seems like a contradiction in terms. But this is not necessarily the case.

• Capture of Orellano; Journalist killed; No to impunity for security forces' violations

  15 November 2014

  The capture in Cali, Colombia, of Rodolfo Orellano, is an important advance in the struggle against corruption in Peru. Orellano has been now been expelled from Colombia and imprisoned in Peru.

  Fernando Raymondi, aged 22 and a trainee journalist with the weekly news magazine Caretas, was killed by unknown assailants in Cañete, south of Lima.

  Family members of victims of human rights violations by some in the security forces staged a demonstration outside the Palace of Justice on November 14.

• Cajamarca death brings call for an end to police impunity; WOLA calls for no revision of Fujimori verdict

  12 November 2014

  The killing of Fidel Flores in Cajamarca at the end of October has reignited the debate over whether the police force is out of control.  

  The Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) has called for the request by Alberto Fujimori’s legal team for a revision of the former president’s sentence to be ignored

• PERU SUPPORT GROUP ANNUAL CONFERENCE 1 NOV 2014

  16 October 2014

  11am, UCL Institute of the Americas, 51 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PN

• POLITICS: Regional and local elections reveal deep divisions

  14 October 2014

  The results of the elections held on October 5 once again revealed deep divisions in Peru.

• HUMAN RIGHTS: Indigenous rights

  28 September 2014

  In September, the Directorate General for External Policies of the European Parliament published its second research paper on indigenous people and human rights. The latest paper highlights the disproportionate effects of extractive industries on indigenous communities worldwide.

• POLITICS: Regional/municipal elections: a vote for corruption?

  28 September 2014

  As the mayoral and regional elections on October 5 loom, the race for the mayor of Lima seems to be a shoo-in for Luis Castañeda Lossio. In her nearly four years in post, incumbent Susana Villarán has been unable to fend accusations of incompetence.

• HUMAN RIGHTS: New Plan does little to allay doubts

  28 September 2014

  On July 7 2014, the Peruvian government approved a new National Plan for Human Rights 2014-2016.The publication of the plan follows two years of consultation with a wide range of stakeholders, including domestic and international human rights organisations and the Peruvian human rights ombudsman

• EXTRACTIVES: Anti-Corruption rules for extractives companies

  28 September 2014

  In August the UK Business Minister announced that Britain was on track to implement the EU Accounting Directive by the end of 2014. The Accounting Directive obliges extractive companies to publish accounts of the payments made to governments around the world for access to natural resources

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