According to figures put together by Cooperacción, on the basis of data from the Ministry of Economy and Mines, mining investment to June was down 2.7% on the same period last year. Taking the same half-yearly comparisons, this is the fourth year in a row that mining...
For yet another week teachers from all over Peru have continued to protest in Lima. There has been much discussion over salaries and agreement that they should be raised. The main issue now in contention is the vexed one of teacher evaluations and the fact that, after...
Last week prominent sociologist Guillermo Nugent was asked to leave his position as the director of the Lugar de la Memoria Tolerancia e Inclusión Social (LUM). After 10 months in charge and having achieved its prominent space in Lima’s cultural landscape, Nugent...
On 22 August, dialogue between government and indigenous representatives from the communities of the four river basins affected by Block 192 broke down. The reason was the refusal of the state to give an answer to and guarantee indigenous groups the right to a fresh...
CIVICUS, an international civil society organization, has just published a report analysing the latest trends of the state of civic space in all EITI (Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative) member countries. The EITI is a global standard aimed at promoting...
A report by researchers from the Carnegie Institute of Science at Stanford University, published on 22 August, highlights in summary form the scale of deforestation in the Madre de Dios region since 1999. The team employs high-resolution Landsat data. Deforestation...
The UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights visited Peru between 10-19 July to monitor implementation of the UN Guidelines on Business and Human Rights. Delegates met with government ministries, including the prime minister’s office and the ministries of foreign...
Two months after the teachers’ strike began, there are few signs of any settlement; rather increasing distance between the teachers’ union, SUTEP, and an embattled government. President Kuczynski made a televised speech to the nation on 16 August in which he berated...
Success arising from civil society pressure in curbing deforestation is the surprising but welcome finding of recent work done by MAAP (Monitoring of the Andean Amazon Project), an international non-profit organisation that tracks the issue in real time by satellite...
On 16 August after six months of work, an agreement emerged from the Dialogue Table reconvened in February to attempt to resolve the issues between the government, the local communities and the mining corporation MMG, which is developing the huge Las Bambas copper...
In an interview, published by the Guardian to commemorate the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, UN Special Rapporteur Victoria Tauli-Corpuz highlighted the advances made in protecting the livelihoods of indigenous peoples in recent years. But she...
Susana de la Puente is to be the new Peruvian ambassador to London. Her appointment was confirmed in El Peruano, the official gazette, on 29 July. She comes from an illustrious elite family, her father having been a government minister and her (maternal) grandfather...