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In June 2020, a medical team was dispatched to Ocho Sur P’s oil palm plantation in the Peruvian Amazon to test workers for COVID-19. This action followed warnings about poor health and safety practices by this oil palm giant. Of those tested, 90% tested positive, embroiling the company in a series of administrative and criminal proceedings, this time for public health offences and forced labour.

A constitutional writ of amparo has been filed to the Superior Court of Justice of Loreto to protect peoples in voluntary isolation and initial contact. The writ was submitted in response to the reactivation of forest concessions that overlap four indigenous reserves in the Peruvian Amazon.

La Organización Regional de los Pueblos Indígenas del Oriente (ORPIO) presentó una demanda constitucional de amparo ante la Corte Superior de Justicia de Loreto para proteger a los pueblos en aislamiento voluntario y contacto inicial (PIACI).