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In its first case to address major palm oil commodity trader, the Dutch National Contact Point for the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises offered its good offices in the complaint filed by Peruvian Indigenous Leaders against Louis Dreyfus Company B.V.

On 4 April 2023, a coalition of 24 Peruvian and international Indigenous, human rights and environmental organisations issued a statement condemning the US Ambassador in Peru’s public endorsement of the palm oil company Ocho Sur’s operati

Leading Amazonian Indigenous Peoples organisations AIDESEP, ORAU, FECONAU, together with the community of Santa Clara de Uchunya, issued the following open letter in response to public remarks made on social media by the United States of America Ambassador to Peru, Lisa Kenna, following her visit to oil palm plantations operated by the Ocho Sur group on 29 March 2023.

In solidarity with the response of indigenous organizations in the Amazon, the afore-signed organizations strongly reject the recent Tweet by the U.S. Ambassador in Peru, Lisa Kenna, that was propaganda for the controversial palm oil company Ocho Sur, which operates with US investments. Our main reasons for doing so are the following:

This week, Peruvian and international organisations filed a complaint before the OECD in the Netherlands, which calls for Louis Dreyfus Company (LDC) to be held accountable for contributing to negative impacts on the environment, human rights and corruption through its sourcing of palm oil from the Ucayali region in the Peruvian Amazon.  

Between 24 and 25 October 2022, members of the Shipibo-Konibo Indigenous community of Santa Clara de Uchunya met in Yarinacocha to reflect on their efforts past and present to defend their ancestral territory against agribusiness-led land trafficking and deforestation and oil palm expansion in the Ucayali region of the Peruvian Amazon. They issued the following agreement and made additional statements during a press conference with regional media.

The UNFCCC Climate Conference (COP27) begins on November 6 in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt. COP27 comes at a critical point in the fight against climate change, and many Indigenous Peoples and Local Community representatives will be attending.

On 16 May 2022, 13 Indigenous organisations from across the Peruvian Amazon, including local and regional federations from Ucayali, and national Indigenous Peoples organisation AIDESEP, issued the following statement, in which they declared their ancestral territories in emergency for 120 days in light of increasing pressur

Indigenous peoples of the Ucayali region have secured a victory against oil and gas extraction in Block 200. After long years of struggle against its imposition and in the face of a very poor consultation process with serious violations of Indigenous rights, they succeeded in getting CEPSA Peru to withdraw from the operation. The Indigenous Peoples will remain vigilant and will fight for the cancellation of the oil block.

Pronunciamiento emitido el 10 de marzo de 2022 por el pueblo Shipibo ante la sentencia del Tribunal Constitucional del Perú en el caso de la comunidad de Santa Clara de Uchunya. 

Forest Peoples Programme and Peruvian legal rights group Instituto de Defensa Legal (IDL) sent a letter to the Peruvian President asking him to guarantee Indigenous rights and to protect rights defenders.

The  UNFCCC Climate Conference (COP26) in Glasgow last month came at a critical point in the fight against climate change and the ecological and humanitarian crisis facing humanity and the planet. Despite the pandemic, hundreds of Indigenous Peoples and Local Community leaders and activists made it to Glasgow.  

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

The UNFCCC Climate Conference (COP26) begins next week in Glasgow. COP26 comes at a critical point in the fight against climate change, and many Indigenous Peoples and Local Community (IPLC) representatives will be attending.

Pucallpa, Peru – Indigenous organisations and communities have called upon the Peruvian government to do more to protect their lands and leaders following a recent spike in death threats and intimidation targeting Indigenous rights and land defenders.

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.

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.

Source: Reuters - Tue, 26 Apr 2016 00:58 GMT, Author: ReutersLIMA, April 25 (Reuters) - A palm oil industry body on Monday ordered a member company with a 5,000 hectare (12,355 acre) concession in Peru to stop developing new plantations until it can prove it has not cleared any primary forest.The dispute comes amid growing concerns from environmentalist and indigenous communities about the rapid expansion of oil palm plantations in the Peruvian Amazon in recent years.

Yarinacocha, December 5th 2015: Today on the 5th of December 2015 we, the Federación de Comunidades Nativas del Ucayali – FECONAU (Federation of Native Communities of Ucayali) representing 35 communities of the Shipibo-Konibo indigenous people from the Ucayali region and Santa Clara de Uchunya, located in Requena, Ucayali region in Peru, presented our formal complaint to the RSPO mechanism against the company Plantaciones de Pucallpa SAC, member of the RSPO.