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Please Sign!! Protect Peru's Uncontacted Tribes From Logging and Invasion
World  (tags: humanrights, peru, uncontacted tribes, oil workers, illegal loggers, devastating impact, humans, conflict, government, freedoms )

Tamara
- 7 days ago - takepart.com
Contact with outsiders can have a devastating impact on uncontacted tribes in remote areas. Tell Peru's President Humala to stop oil workers and illegal loggers from invading the lands of uncontacted tribes in Peru.
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Peru : Highest Child Labour Rate in the Americas.
World  (tags: peru, slavery, child labour, corporate, corruption, abuse, dishonesty, money, freedoms, 'HUMANRIGHTS!', HumanRights, children, women, protection, risks, safety )

Xil
- 305 days ago - aljazeera.com
Officially the practice is banned, but many poor families rely on the money their children earn. Of the nation's three million child labourers, aged between five and 17, 70 per cent of them are engaging in activities that endanger their lives.
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Dirty Gold Mine Leaving Peruvians High and Dry ACTION LINK
World  (tags: world, violence, humanrights, Peru, crime, ecosystems, environment, water, habitatdestruction, healthconditions )

Nancy
- 340 days ago - care2.com
President Ollanta Humala's government has declared a state of emergency for three provinces and is using force to suppress protests. Five people were shot dead by the military, among them two minors. Numerous others were seriously injured and randomly...
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Peru Launches Project to Fight Child Labour
World  (tags: world, children, child labor, PEru, 'CIVILLIBERTIES!', 'HUMANRIGHTS!', humanrights, society, news, freedoms )

Cal
- 341 days ago - bbc.co.uk
Peru is using money donated by the United States to set up a pilot project to reduce the use of child labour.
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Peru: On the Hunt for Shining Path Rebels
World  (tags: world, terrorism, politics, society, Peru, Shining Path guerillas, 'CIVILLIBERTIES!', conflict, violence, news )

Cal
- 427 days ago - globalpost.com
Dozens of hostages were set free, but President Ollanta Humala has ordered the capture of the guerrilla fighters responsible.
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TAKE ACTION! Demand Justice for Murdered Peruvian Shamans!
World  (tags: 'HUMANRIGHTS!', crime, corruption, conflict, death, government, HumanRights, terrorism, violence, peru, indigenous people, indigenous rights )

William
- 618 days ago - shamanism.org
We have just learned that over the last 20 months 14 shamans have been murdered in Peru's region of Loreto. The provincial prosecutor's office said that the murders were allegedly ordered by the mayor of Balsa Puerto, Alfredo Torres.
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PETITION: Demand Justice for Murdered Peruvian Shamans!
World  (tags: 'HUMANRIGHTS!', conflict, corruption, crime, death, government, HumanRights, terrorism, violence, peru, indigenous people, indigenous rights )

William
- 618 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
We have just learned that over the last 20 months 14 shamans have been murdered in Peru's region of Loreto. The provincial prosecutor's office said that the murders were allegedly ordered by the mayor of Balsa Puerto, Alfredo Torres.
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Peru Leads the Way for Latin America's Indigenous Communities
World  (tags: Peru, Chevron, indigenous people, human rights, corporate greed )

Nancy
- 644 days ago - guardian.co.uk
Against the wider backdrop of a struggle that pits the ancestral owners of untapped natural resources against greedy governments and corporations, Peru's new law on the right of indigenous people to prior consultation may set a regional precedent in avoi
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ACTION ALERT: Save Indigenous Peoples - Tribes and Campaigns
World  (tags: ACTION ALERT: Sign letter, Campaign, Human rights, Indigenous peoples, tribes, culture, conservation, disease, rainforests, survival, Africa, Amazon, Brazil, India, Peru, world )

Rosemary
- 665 days ago - survivalinternational.org
This action alert from Survival International asks human beings on our planet to save Indigenous Tribal peoples at risk for extinction due to diseases, logging and lack of protection. Please click on every tribe and simply sign your name for each tribe.
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PERU: Humala Promises Boom Will Reach Poor
World  (tags: world, politics, Peru, Humala, news, society, 'CIVILLIBERTIES!', 'HUMANRIGHTS!', humanrights, freedoms )

Cal
- 689 days ago - ipsnews.net
The new president of Peru, retired lieutenant colonel Ollanta Humala, promised to make the fight against poverty and marginalisation the top priority of his administration.
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Human Rights Body Protects Chinese Citizen at Risk of Execution
World  (tags: world, Peru, law, government, politics, 'HUMANRIGHTS!', humanrights, interesting, ethics, freedoms )

Cal
- 943 days ago - ipsnews.net
A prosecutor in Peru clarified that Wong Ho Wing, a Chinese businessman in prison in this country since 2008 on charges of customs tax fraud, will not be released despite an Inter-American Commission on Human Rights decision to accept his case, which was
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Peruvian Mayor Blackmailed With Father's Stolen Skull
World  (tags: world, Peru, government, politics, terrorism )

Michelle
- 998 days ago - bbc.co.uk
Thieves have tried to blackmail a Peruvian small-town mayor into withdrawing his re-election bid by claiming to have stolen his late father's skull, police say. The thieves dug up the body of Rogelio Vizcarra's father and then sent him a text message.
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Machu Picchu
World  (tags: Machu Picchu, Los Incas, Peru )

Ben
- 1228 days ago - mnsu.edu
Machu Picchu is a city located high in the Andes Mountains in modern Peru. It lies 43 miles northwest of Cuzco at the top of a ridge, hiding it from the Urabamba gorge below. The ridge is between a block of highland and the massive Huaynac Picchu...
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Peru's Indigenous People Win One Round Over Developers
World  (tags: world, peru, amazon, rainforest, indians, indigenous, people, human, rights, freedom, civil, liberty, politics, government, money, business, logging, hunting, fishing, habitat, destruction, environment, private, investment )

Tom
- 1441 days ago - latimes.com
Private investment in the Amazon brought misery to its indigenous people. Logging and other activities ruined tribal lands and set off protests leading to the revocation of laws to further open the Amazon to outsiders. The Indians beat them by a knockout.
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Uphold Indigenous Rights - Save the Amazon! - Sign AVAAZ Petition
World  (tags: Peru, Amazon, Amazon Rainforest, government, HumanRights )

Joanna
- 1469 days ago - avaaz.org
Peru is witnessing violent clashes between indigenous groups desperately trying to protect the Amazon and the government, who has pushed through legislation allowing intensive mining, logging and large scale farming in the rainforest. Please sign!
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