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15 Jun 2020 9 minute read

Two Demons: Covid-19 and abuse

Stephanie Boyd on the making of a groundbreaking indigenous film about the pandemic in Peru’s Amazon.

Residents hold signs during a protest against Las Bambas mine in Apurimac, where Virginia Pinares also fights

16 Dec 2019 5 minute read

‘If they kill me, they kill me’

Indigenous human-rights defender Virginia Pinares talks to Vanessa Baird about mining in...

22 Jul 2018 3 minute read

This article is almost two years old.

Walter Aduviri – hero or criminal?

Human rights defenders are being criminalized in Peru. John Crabtree highlights the unusual case of Walter...

UK exporting PPPs

18 Jan 2018 3 minute read

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UK pushing dodgy Public-Private Partnerships

Carillion highlights how disastrous these can be – this policy must stop, argues Jenny Nelson.

1 Sep 2017 5 minute read

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When the police are paid by the mine

In Peru, private corporations are hiring public law enforcers, writes Stephanie Boyd.

17 Dec 2016 5 minute read

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Tax avoidance: the damage done

Tax avoidance is anything but a victimless crime, with some of its most pernicious effects in the Global South, ...

22 Sep 2016 4 minute read

This article is almost four years old.

When Two Worlds Collide – people vs corporate greed

Vanessa Baird reviews a gripping new documentary from Peru which has global implications.

1 Jul 2016 4 minute read

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'I will never give up my land'

Roxana Olivera talks to Goldman Environment Prize winner Máxima Acuña.

1 Jun 2016 7 minute read

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Against their will

Roxana Olivera meets indigenous women in Peru who are still waiting for justice, two decades after being...

5 May 2016 3 minute read

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Peru’s independent media under attack

A blow for press freedom occurs just as the country prepares for a new ultra-right government, writes Stephanie Boyd...

20 Apr 2016 7 minute read

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Peruvian elections: for the Right or the Right?

Despite the election upset, the opposition will not be silenced, writes Stephanie Boyd.

1 Mar 2016 2 minute read

This article is more than four years old.

Peru’s merry-go-rounders

Peruvians head to polling stations across the Andean nation, Lucas Iberico Lozada reports.

3 Dec 2015 4 minute read

This article is almost five years old.

A message to the world from the Wampis

The first email ever sent from the Wampis community of Soledad in the Peruvian rainforest was to New Internationalist...

18 Sep 2015 3 minute read

This article is almost five years old.

Murder in Mindanao

Graciela Romero Vasquez decries the intersection of violence, money and state collusion in the mining...

19 Jan 2015 5 minute read

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Oil giant takes aim at indigenous groups in Peru

Thomas Mc Donagh on the unequal struggle between Amazonian communities and Spanish transnational Repsol.

15 Dec 2014 2 minute read

This article is more than five years old.

Good for nothing – except procrastination

The climate summit in Peru dodged all the big issues. Now the clock is ticking, says Joe Ware.

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