Indigenous leaders from the Peruvian Amazon have urged the government to halt oil and gas projects that threaten their lands, ...

In 2003, Indigenous organizations petitioned the Peruvian government to create Yavarí Mirim, an Indigenous reserve on the ...

By Aimee Gabay An ongoing federal highway project that will cross through protected areas and Indigenous lands in Peru’s ...

Former Peruvian President Pedro Castillo has ended a four-day hunger strike that he began in protest of his trial on ...

For the first 10 years of her life, Tarcila Rivera-Zea lived a cloistered existence. Growing up in the Peruvian Andes as part ...

The leaders presented evidence of the impact of oil and gas exploration at a hearing before the Inter-American Commission on ...

Indigenous leaders from the Peruvian Amazon who are calling for the government to stop oil and gas projects in their territory took their case to an international human rights body on Tuesday.

FILE - Part of the Amazon jungle destroyed by illegal miners is visible in the Tambopata province, Peru's Madre de Dios region on March 28, 2019. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd, File) ...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Indigenous leaders from the Peruvian Amazon who are calling for the government to stop oil and gas projects in their territory took their case to an international human ...