LifeMosaic

Supporting Indigenous Peoples to Defend Their Rights

(5) February 2015

Peru’s Achuar And Kichwa Indigenous Communities Defend Their Territory From Oil Pollution

In late January, members from the Achuar and Kichwa indigenous communities, from the Corrientes and Tigre rivers basins in the Peruvian Amazon, took the Jibarito base of the Pluspetrol company, paralyzing the production of 14 oil wells, equivalent to a loss of approximately 3,100 barrels per day.

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Could 2015 be a breakthrough year for community land rights?

2015 is set to be a pivotal year for the global recognition of land and resource rights if momentum in protecting the world's forests and their communities can be kept up, land rights experts and campaigners said on Wednesday. (Astrid Zweynert / Thomson Reuters Foundation)

Peru’s indigenous people protest against relicensing of oil concession

Kichwa communities bar River Tigre, an Amazon tributary, with cables to stop oil company boats from passing and accuse government of turning a blind eye to contamination from oil operations in the forest. (David Hill / The Guardian)

Rosa Palomino: “On the radio we care about our rights and Aymara culture”

Rosa Palomino is an Aymara social communicator who directs Wiñay Pankara (Always blooming), an Aymara story-telling radio show that connects political activity and radio, and redefines story-telling from a gender perspective. (Marco R. Colombier / Intercontinental Cry)

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