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

Peru’s Congress has passed a controversial reform expanding the powers of a government agency which oversees international ...

An ongoing federal highway project that will cross through protected areas and Indigenous lands in Peru’s Amazon is facing ...

Ninety-five percent of deforestation in the Amazon has occurred within 3.4 miles of a road, according to a landmark 2014 ...

Human Rights Watch welcomes the opportunity to provide information to the Special Rapporteur on toxics and human rights on ...

The largest carnival celebration in Chile reflects a long history of Indigenous resistance to colonization—a struggle that ...

KANEOHE, Hawaii (AP) — Hawaii's American colonizers once banned the Hawaiian language in schools. Some Native Hawaiians tried ...

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

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

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

Former Peruvian President Pedro Castillo is on trial, charged with rebellion and abuse of authority, after attempting to ...