The dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development will deliver a major blow to efforts including humanitarian ...

Florentina Loayza was 19 and mother to an infant when she was sterilized by agents of the Peruvian government, against her will.

Experts on Bolivia and Peru discussed the current political challenges threatening regional stability in Latin America at an ...

An unconditional cash-transfer pilot project for Indigenous peoples in Peru’s Amazon is underway to help support families who turn to unsustainable or illegal forest activities due to economic ...

from Peru’s Alto Mayo is a very small and ... is also new to science even though this species is already familiar to the Indigenous Awajun people who worked with the RAP scientists.

By Liz Kimbrough Scientists and Indigenous community members documented 27 new-to-science species in Peru’s Alto Mayo region, including four new mammals and a bizarre “blob-headed” fish that was ...

Sitting at 11,152 feet up in the Andes Mountains is Cusco, the former capital of the Inca empire. The city is one of the ...

Canadian mining companies have been accused in Peru of environmental contamination, criminalizing community leaders, land dispossession and the violation of Indigenous self-determination.

Brazil and Peru. They are one of the largest indigenous groups in the Amazon, with an estimated population of around 50,000 to 60,000 people. The Ticuna language is a language isolate, meaning it has ...

Canada is committed to expand and deepen its engagement in the region, promoting governance, pluralism, diversity, respect for the environment, indigenous peoples and human rights, with a special ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Maka Indigenous people march to protest for the recovery of ...