New Campaign Hopes to Raise Awareness of Threats to Peru's Nomadic Indigenous People

Barbara Fraser
March 04, 2013
Threats facing nomadic indigenous people living in isolation in Peru are the focus of a new public awareness campaign launched by one of Peru’s largest indigenous organizations... Read More

Achuar Win Green Party Support, Attend Talisman Annual Meeting

Barbara Fraser
May 06, 2012
Achuar leaders from the Peruvian Amazon who are protesting oil exploration in their territory have won the support of Canadian non-governmental organizations and political parties,... Read More

Peru’s Achuar Find Common Ground With Canadian First Nations in Oil Sands

Barbara Fraser
April 27, 2012
They live thousands of miles from the oil sands of Canada’s north, but their refrain is familiar... Read More

Isolated Mashco-Piro Tribe Sightings Come With a Risk

ICTMN Staff
January 31, 2012
A clan of Mashco-Piro Indians, a small tribe of previously isolated Amazon Indians in Peru, have been appearing along the riverbank in Madre de Dios with a message to tourists and ... Read More

Controversy Stirs Over Television Series on a Peruvian Tribe

Barbara Fraser
August 19, 2011
A reality television series filmed in Machiguenga communities in the Peruvian Amazon misrepresented the tribe and reinforced stereotypes, says an anthropologist who has studied the... Read More

International Solidarity Protests Against Peruvian Forest Laws

Rick Kearns
June 10, 2009
Thousands of demonstrators on two continents have joined the struggle to defend the rights of indigenous peoples in Peru, who have been staging road and pipeline blockades for more... Read More

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New Campaign Hopes to Raise Awareness of Threats to Peru's Nomadic Indigenous People

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