Peru’s forced sterilisation policy could constitute a crime against humanity
Peru’s forced sterilisation policy could constitute a crime against humanity, a United Nations committee has said. More than 300,000 women were sterilised under the guise of a family planning scheme, ...
Giving nature legal rights
LIVING on the banks of the Maranon River, indigenous leader Mari Luz Canaquiri has seen nature die and fish stocks dwindle ...
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In Peru, these women beekeepers save bees and gain empowerment and resilience
small-scale farmers and Indigenous populations, Juan Diego Ruiz, IFAD's chief for the Andean region and the Southern Cone said. In Peru, women particularly struggle to secure funding for their ...
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Indigenous women are on nature’s front lines but get little funding
along with environment ministers from Ecuador and Brazil and vice ministers from Peru, Colombia and Panama are at the ...