Peru

Peru

Between Reality and Abstraction

March 2013
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Hugo Cabieses
Pien Metaal
Mirella van Dun

At the International Conference on Alter­native Development (ICAD), held 15-16 November 2012 in Lima, the Peruvian Government continued to insist on the relevance of “Alternative Development (AD),” with particular emphasis on the so-called San Martín “miracle” or “model.”

NO to the EU - Colombia/Peru Free Trade Agreement

April 2012
Alternative Regionalisms

Call on your MEP to oppose EU's proposed Free Trade Agreements with Colombia, Peru and Central America because they will undermine human rights, increase unemployment and put corporate profits above human needs.

 

UN World Water Day 2011: Reclaiming public water for our cities

March 2011
Water Justice

TNI's Water Justice programme is marking this year's UN World Water Day in Cape Town at the GWOPA (Global Water Operator partnerships Alliance) Congress, in the continuing struggle to reclaim public water.

Public Community Partnerships in Peru and Uruguay

March 2011
Water Justice

Citizen struggles for public water in Peru and Uruguay share many similarities and a common vision, with "public-community partnerships" bringing trade unions and water utility managers together on a shared platform.

Time for Europe to put human rights above commercial advantage

March 2011
Cecilia Olivet
Paulina Novo

Free trade or slave trade? How the EU's free trade agreements in Colombia and Peru reward human rights abuses, destroy livelihoods, promote land grabbing and strip governments of their sovereignty to regulate capital flows.

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The Second Conquest: The EU Free Trade Agreement with Colombia and Peru

October 2010
Thomas Fritz

The neoliberal FTAs pursued by the EU with Colombia and Peru threaten to exacerbate human rights abuses - which include killings of trade unionists, forced expropriations of indigenous people from land, and environmental destruction - for the sake of corporate profit.

Blood at the Blockade: Peru's Indigenous Uprising

June 2009
TNI
Gerardo Rénique

On June 6, near a stretch of highway known as the Devil's Curve in the northern Peruvian Amazon, police began firing live rounds into a multitude of indigenous protestors – many wearing feathered crowns and carrying spears. In the nearby towns of Bagua Grande, Bagua Chica, and Utcubamba, shots also came from police snipers on rooftops, and from a helicopter that hovered above the mass of people. Both natives and mestizos took to the streets protesting the bloody repression.

Indigenous Rights in the Andes and Licit Uses of the Coca Leaf

December 2008

Some Andean governments and the region’s indigenous groups have sought to distinguish clearly between coca, a plant long used by indigenous peoples for health, religious and cultural purposes, and cocaine, an illicit drug. Yet both coca and cocaine have the same status in the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs.

The Bolivian government’s aim of declassifying coca as a narcotic drug under the UN Conventions has sparked significant international debate.

President Evo Morales to play football game during EU-LAC Summit

May 2008
TNI
The People's Summit starts promoting integration alternatives based on Justice, Solidarity and Peace

In a theatre of the National Engineering University packed to the seams with people, preventing many others from entering, the People’s Summit Linking Alternatives 3 began today in Lima, Peru.

Huancayo: From resistance to public-public partnership

April 2008
Philipp Terhorst
The Andean city of Huancayo has shown that a strong local movement of citizens and workers can expand the struggle against privatisation into reclaiming public water services.