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Country: Peru
NGO Letter to President Obama about 1 June Meeting with Peruvian President Garcia...
May 28, 2010,
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| Amazon Watch - Change to Win - Defenders of Wildlife - Environmental Investigation Agency Friends of the Earth - International Brotherhood of Teamsters - Oxfam America Public Citizen - Sierra Club - Washington Office on Latin America
Friday, May 28, 2010
President Barack Obama
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20500
Dear President Obama:
As a diverse r...
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Statement by APRODEH: Apu Pizango has the Right to Due Process and to Regain his Freedom...
May 27, 2010,
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| To promote dialogue between the government and indigenous peoples
APU PIZANGO HAS THE RIGHT TO DUE PROCESS AND TO REGAINING HIS FREEDOM
The Human Rights Association of Peru (APRODEH) requests for the issuance of comparecencia (provisional release pending a future court date) as well as guarantees of due process for President of the Interethnic Association for the Development of the Forest (A...
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Alberto Pizango: Public Declaration to Peru and the World...
May 27, 2010,
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| REASONS I WENT INTO EXILE
In 2008 and 2009, we Amazonian indigenous peoples MOBILIZED OURSELVES DEMANDING the derogation of the legislative decrees issued by Alan Garcia. We denounced the violation of our right to be consulted, as established in Convention 169 of the ILO. As part of these collective efforts of our peoples, we were able to win the derogation of the four legislative decrees (10...
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Meet the Achuar Delegates...
May 03, 2010,
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| By foot, boat, bus and plane, three Achuar indigenous leaders from the Peruvian Amazon will travel to the United States and Canada from May 1st - May 9th as part of the launch of an international campaign to demand that Canadian oil company Talisman Energy immediately cease oil operations in the Achuar's ancestral Amazonian homeland. After years of operating in war-torn Sudan, Talisman is now enga...
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Testimony of Daysi Zapata Fasabi, Vice President of AIDESEP, Before the U.S. Congress...
Apr 29, 2010,
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| Testimony of Daysi Zapata Fasabi, Vice President of Interethnic Development Association for the Peruvian Amazon – AIDESEP
Before the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission
Hearing: "The Rights of Indigenous Peoples: Latin America"
Thursday, 29 April 2010
In the name of my organization, AIDESEP, it is my pleasure to offer warm greetings to the North American people, represented by you, ill...
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A second hydrocarbon boom threatens the Peruvian Amazon:
trends, projections, and policy implications
A report by Matt Finer and Marti Orta-Marti...
Feb 16, 2010,
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| A rapid and unprecedented proliferation of oil and gas concessions threatens the mega-diverse Peruvian Amazon. That is one of the central conclusions from a pair of researchers who have, for the first time, documented the full history of hydrocarbon activities in the region and made projections about expected levels of activity in the near future.
The study, published in the peer-reviewed and o...
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AIDESEP Decries the Peruvian Government's Oil Rush...
Feb 10, 2010,
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In light of the Peruvian State's push for the granting of oil and gas concessions in our Amazonian rainforest, AIDESEP would like the Peruvian and international citizens and decision-makers to know the following:
1) We condemn the government of Peru for not fulfilling its obligations and failing to protect indigenous territories; for violating indigenous communities' rights to choose thei...
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APRODEH: Open Letter To Peruvian President Alan Garcia...
Aug 10, 2009,
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| Dr. Alan García Pérez
President of the Republic of Peru
Mr. President –
As citizens of Peru and the world, we are writing to you about the disproportionate and violent police incursion carried out to remove protesting indigenous people in Bagua, Amazonas, that Santiago Munuin Valera, a 52 year old Awajun indigenous leader, has been seriously injured. At the moment that he was shot, he was ...
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AIDESEP Warns that Persecution Continues, Announcing they will Withdraw from the Dialogue Table Should it Persist...
Jun 24, 2009,
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| AIDESEP demanded that Peru's Executive and Legislative branches halt the persecution of indigenous leaders throughout the country. If they don't, indigenous representatives will be obligated to withdraw from the Coordination Group for the Amazon Peoples. At the same time that they have shown willingnesss to demonstrate good will and engage in dialogue, the government insists on persecution of th...
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AIDESEP Statement: A Historic Day for Indigenous Peoples...
Jun 18, 2009,
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| Speaking on behalf of indigenous peoples, the vice-president of the Inter-Ethinc Association for Development in the Peruvian Amazon (AIDESEP), Daysi Zapata, expressed her satisfaction with the decision of the Congress of the Republic to repeal the illegitimate legislative decrees 1090 and 1064 and called on the government to initiate a sincere and transparent dialogue for the good of the country. ...
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