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Campaign: Amazonian Indigenous Refuges Under Threat From Oil Development
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South American Indigenous Protests Highlight Development Tensions...
Aug 05, 2010, World Politics Review
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| With the entire western Amazon experiencing oil and mining booms, indigenous groups in the Amazon Basin and the Andes – already fighting encroachment by loggers and small-scale farmers, or else struggling to obtain title for their ancestral land – have now stepped up their resistance to efforts to exploit oil reserves, mineral deposits and other natural resources in and nearby their co...
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Slack Oversight of Peru's Amazon Rainforest...
Jul 27, 2010, Interpress Service
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| LIMA, Jul 27, 2010 (IPS) - Fifty-three percent of Peru is covered with native rainforest, but the agencies in charge of protecting and monitoring this vast area are toothless and have neither the staff nor the resources to cope with the job, according to a report from the Defensoría del Pueblo (Ombudsperson's Office).
Each year some 150,000 hectares of Peru's Amazon jungle, out of a total of 68...
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Q&A: Will a Brazil-Peru Energy Deal Generate Local Controversy?
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Jul 16, 2010, Latin America Energy Advisor
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| Q: During a bilateral meeting in Manaus on June 16, Presidents Alan García of Peru and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil praised the signing of a new electricity supply and export agreement, which they called "an instrument of great strategic interest for both countries." What are the details of the agreement, and what is its significance? Will electricity exports to Brazil create the same k...
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Amazon Watch apoya a religioso ecologista...
Jul 13, 2010, La Mula
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| Debido a las constantes amenazas de expulsión del país en contra del religioso ecologista Paul McAuley, la prestigiosa organización Amazon Watch le dio su respaldo público. Aquí, el testimonio de uno de sus representantes en el Perú, Andrew Miller....
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A Discussion of Peruvian President Alan Garcia's Veto of the Law of Consultation with Indigenous Peoples...
Jul 01, 2010, First Voices Indigenous Radio
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| Click the Play button above to listen to this segment of the program. Peruvian President Alan Garcia dealt a blow to the indigenous rights movement when he recently refused to sign a law that would give indigenous people more control over oil and mining projects on their traditional lands. An interview with Britton Schwartz of Amazon Watch....
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Peru: United Nations asked to intervene on behalf of those affected by ecological disaster in the Marañón River...
Jun 25, 2010, Servindi
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| Institutions request that a state of emergency be declared for the province of Loreto
The Peruvian National Coordinator for Human Rights (CNDDHH) has requested numerous United Nations institutions to intercede on behalf of the rights of indigenous peoples before the Peruvian government given the Marañón River oil spill this past June 19th.
In the letter, Ronald Gamarra, exe...
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Tribes slam Peru's Garcia as he rejects rights law...
Jun 23, 2010, Reuters
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| LIMA - Tribes and opposition leaders sharply criticized Peruvian President Alan Garcia on Wednesday for rejecting a law that would have given Indians more power to halt mining, oil and road projects on their native lands.
Congress had passed the law to try to calm tensions that have lingered since more than 30 people died last year in a clash between police and Amazon tribes. It was the worst v...
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NPR: Toll Of Oil Drilling Felt In Peru's Amazon Basin...
Jun 22, 2010, National Public Radio / Morning Edition
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| Click the Play button above to listen to this segment of the program.In the middle of the Peruvian Amazon, thousands of miles from the BP rig pouring oil into the Gulf of Mexico, oil spills have been a fact of life for more than 30 years.
In villages like San Cristobal, the indigenous Achuar people believe their maladies are caused by exposu...
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AI insta a García a promulgar una ley de consulta previa para los pueblos indígenas...
Jun 15, 2010, EFE
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| Amnistía Internacional instó hoy al presidente peruano, Alan García, a promulgar "sin más demora y sin observaciones" la Ley del Derecho a la Consulta Previa a los Pueblos Indígenas u Originarios, que les permitirá decidir sobre las tierras que ocupan ancestralmente, entre otras facultades.
En un comunicado difundido en Lima, la organización afirmó que es "encomiable" que el Congreso peruano ha...
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Bagua Anniversary: One Year After Violent Clashes in Peru, Situation for Indigenous Rights Little Improved...
Jun 10, 2010, CommonDreams.org
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| A year has passed since a police operation to end 55 days of peaceful indigenous protests in the Amazon basin resulted in a violent clash between military police and peaceful indigenous protesters in Bagua last June 5, 2009. It was the worst violence Peru has seen in recent history, leaving 34 people dead and almost two hundred injured. One year later there is a troubling divide between indigenous...
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