The effort to protect the Peruvian Amazon from deforestation related to the cocaine trade was long supported by financial ...

Without U.S. funding, Indigenous communities in Peru and elsewhere face increasing threats to their land, livelihoods, and human rights.

A civil court in Peru has issued a landmark ruling recognizing the territorial rights of the Kichwa people within a protected ...

In Peru’s Amazon, Indigenous communities face an escalating threat from organized crime, yet remain largely invisible to the state, according to a new report. For years, criminal groups have ...

Though American-born, the new pope spent years working in my native Peru and even obtained Peruvian citizenship. “An American pope?” my wife asked, incredulous, staring at the television ...

Here's How Pope Francis delivers a speech during a meeting with representatives of Indigenous communities of the Amazon Basin from Peru, Brazil, and Bolivia, in the Peruvian city of Puerto ...

Peru 's state-run oil company failed to attract any bids to develop an oil field that overlaps ancestral territories of several Indigenous groups, prompting celebration by the communities and ...

Between 1995-2000, 300,000 women in Peru, mostly poor indigenous peasants who did not speak Spanish, were forcibly sterilized by the Fujimori government. The Peruvian feminist movement has been ...

WUSA-TV Washington, D.C. Posted: May 8, 2025 | Last updated: May 8, 2025 Pope Leo XIV, once Robert Prevost, has overcome the taboo against a U.S. pope, given the geopolitical power already wielded ...

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