The leader of an indigenous community in Peru asked for the government to declare a state of emergency on Monday and accused ...

Teófilo Kukush, leader of the Wampís community in Peru, urged the government to declare a state of emergency due to illegal ...

The mystical relationship between the Indigenous communities of the northern Peruvian Amazon and the Marañón River is at the ...

Evo Morales, the former president of Bolivia, has long talked about runasur” – the concept of uniting Indigenous people across the Andes region. Morales has been blamed by the Peruvian ...

Peru’s Environment Ministry, which runs the park, opposes the road, and so do most of the indigenous residents of the region, according to park director John Florez. “The people demanding it ...

Rivera Zea founded Chirapaq (Center of Indigenous Cultures of Peru) to support the cultural reaffirmation of Indigenous peoples with a strong human rights approach. The organization, now a leading ...

An unconditional cash-transfer pilot project for Indigenous peoples in Peru’s Amazon is underway to help support families who turn to unsustainable or illegal forest activities due to economic ...

Prior to that violent era, Peru’s highland Indigenous people were represented by peasant organizations, which coordinated the actions of regional syndicates organized by local communities that ...

The president of the Autonomous Territorial Government of the Wampís Nation (GTANW) in Peru denounced the use of local children as 'human shields' to protect illegal mining activities and demanded ...