Peru: Unstoppable land grant

Conga: resistance continues

The Peruvian territory by more than 25% is now to large mining companies, and there is when you are finished that process that is generating too many conflicts.

Today, through six specific cases and of great importance, the business community, which has in the current Peruvian rulers their best allies who granted large tracts of land without the consent of indigenous peoples can be demonstrated.

 

Peru: Government in breach of Convention 169 of the ILO

Owners of concessioned territories: forever forgotten.

According to the "alternative report 2012 on the implementation of Convention No. 169 of the International Labour Organization" (which discusses the period of August 2011 to July 2012), the national coordinator of human rights, has denounced the lack of compliance with the Convention by the Peruvian Government.

  

Shipibos indians take oil wells

Natives defend their lives.

Since 10 days hundreds of indigenous shipibos of the Amazon community Cachiyacu Caanan (Ucayali-Peru), they keep taken nine oil wells of the company Maple Gas Corporation, in search of solutions by the pollution of the extractive activity. The company is dedicated to the exploration, exploitation, refining, distribution and marketing of hydrocarbons and their derivatives.
 

Peru: Tons of mercury to illegal mining

Illegal mining has devastated 20 thousand hectares of forests.

Illegal mining, which is growing due to corrupt officials, continues to use large amounts of mercury to gold production.

Peru: Loses thousands of kilometers of Amazon forest

There is no way to stop the destruction of the Amazon.

A recent study shows that the causes of the loss of thousands of kilometers of the Amazon rainforest are extractive activities and territorial disorder; but also the lack of an environmental policy and the huge presence of corruption which have resulted in the loss of 15 thousand square kilometers of jungle in the past 10 years.

Peru: Dear Roque

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Peru: Pollution that never ends

Children Achuar (Loreto Region)-arrived at Lima 2007 asking for medical attention.

Since many years ago. native communities, who live mainly in the Peruvian Amazon, continue to claim and fighting to be heard and punish predatory and polluting transnational corporations.
 

Perú: Powerful mine poisoned peasents

Antamina S.A., endangers the life of the peasant communities surrounding.

The Departmental Agrarian Federation of Ancash has asked the Peruvian Government to declare environmental emergency in the highland area the region where sits Antamina S. A. (500 kilometers from Lima, the Peruvian capital) due the contamination by spillage of 45 tons of 14 toxic minerals which seriously affected more than 200 settlers in the community of Santa Rosa, in the District of Cajacay.