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Organizaciones indígenas se reúnen con congresistas y primera ministra demandando acciones de protección territorial y la continuación de un proyecto de titulación emblemático.

The RSPO has upheld that Peruvian palm oil miller OLPESA must not buy or process palm from deforested Indigenous lands, which were converted to a plantation which the RSPO condemned in 2016. However, its decision fails to dispel the spectre of human rights violations and large-scale deforestation from agroindustrial supply chains given the limited scope of the RSPO’s own standards.

“La hidrovía amazónica no va y el pueblo indígena resistirá hasta el final”

The Shipibo community is calling on the Peruvian Government to ensure the safety of community members who are experiencing intimidation and threats for taking direct action to stem the expansion of illegal logging and narcotics production in their territory.

Peruvian organisations held an online press conference this week to discuss issues affecting the Shipibo and other Amazonian peoples, including the impacts of COVID-19 and the activities of extractive and agro-industrial companies in Indigenous territories.

Ocho Sur, a company dedicated to the production of oil palm in the region of Ucayali, has been working during the COVID-19 pandemic exposing the local population to the disease. Indigenous and human rights organisations have formally denounced this actions - just one of the many violations that the company has been systematically committing.

Faced with the ineffectiveness of the Peruvian State amid the advance of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Peruvian Amazon, various Indigenous Peoples have taken actions and proposed intercultural measures to protect their territories and the wellbeing of their communities.