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Repeat Oil Spills Turning Peruvian Amazon into 'Sacrifice Zone' for Big Oil

Fed Up with Inaction, Peruvian Tribe Takes Hostages Following Amazon Oil Spills

Nika Knight, staff writer

After learning that they would be excluded from an official state of emergency declared in the wake of two catastrophic oil spills in the Peruvian Amazon, members of the Wampis community of Mayuriaga stopped a helicopter from taking off late Sunday evening and held 8 officials hostage to force the government to respond to their desperate pleas for...

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As Rivers Run Black in Peru, Indigenous Tribes Left Cleaning Big Oil's Disaster

Nika Knight, staff writer

A disastrous spate of oil spills in the Peruvian Amazon have gone from bad to...

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Seizing Wells and Going on Strike, Peruvian Protesters Stand Up to Big Oil

Deirdre Fulton, staff writer

Demanding reparations for industrial pollution and adequate compensation for...

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Climate Change Threatens Quechua and Their Crops in Peru’s Andes

How One Indigenous Woman Took On a Multinational Mining Corporation... And Won

Murder in the Rainforest: Local Activists and the Global Politics of Climate Change

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Indigenous Groups Occupy Airport Near Amazon Oil Reserves

Death of 'Irrepressible' Forest Defender Prompts Investigation

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Earthworks

Latin American Environmental Defender Attacked, Hospitalized

Center for Reproductive Rights

New Human Rights Case Filed on Behalf of Peruvian Rape Survivor Denied Emergency Contraception at Public Hospital

Center for Reproductive Rights

Peruvian Government Publicly Recognizes Human Rights Violations Against Rape Survivor As Part of Landmark U.N. Abortion Case

Forest Peoples Programme

Indigenous Activist's Life in Danger After Opposing Destruction of Peruvian Amazon by Oil Palm Companies...

Forest Peoples Programme

Peruvian Indigenous Leader in London to Denounce Illegal Deforestation of 5000 Hectares of Peru’s Amazon for Palm Oil

Oakland Institute

Civil Society Comes Together in Latin America to Challenge the World Bank’s Annual Meetings

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