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 ...

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

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

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Chile’s biggest carnival is kicking off at full speed today. As many as 150,000 people have traveled to the northern Chilean ...

Three years ago, while exploring the Mojanda mountain range in Ecuador, a team of researchers from a local NGO and a ...

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

The lake provides all the drinking water for the city of Winnipeg but the people of Shoal Lake #40 have long been ... to replace the community’s inadequate water treatment system. Indigenous ...

Report is the first to comprehensively assess the global conservation status of peatlands, which store more carbon than all the world's forests' biomass combined; calls for urgent action to protect ...

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote a famous book under the title Why We Can’t Wait.  Besides addressing the crime of slavery ...

Florentina Loayza was 19 and mother to an infant when she was sterilized by agents of the Peruvian government, against her ...

The Amazon is renowned for its cultural diversity, particularly the ethnic diversity of its Indigenous nations, but also the ...