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Following a complaint by members of the Santa Clara de Uchunya community of the Shipibo-Konibo people, UN experts on business and human rights, Indigenous peoples, environment, defenders, and water and sanitation express concerns about the operations of the Ocho Sur oil palm company in Ucayali in the Peruvian Amazon in form

Ante denuncias de violaciones graves y generalizadas de los derechos humanos de los pueblos indígenas en los Andes y la Amazonia de Perú, el Consejo de Derechos Humanos de las Naciones Unidas hizo un llamado al Estado peruano para redoblar sus esfuerzos para proteger los derechos

This article was first published in Spanish by Servindi.org.

In October 2023, the Corporate Provincial Criminal Prosecutor's Office of Campo Verde issued a formal accusation against the company Ocho Sur P S.A.C. for the commission of the crime of aggravated usurpation to the detriment of the community of Santa Clara de Uchunya, case number 00102-2022-90-2406-JR-PE-01.

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.

At a press conference held by the Indigenous movement of the Shipibo-Konibo people, several testimonies were presented about the struggle of Indigenous communities in Ucayali against the abuses of the company Ocho Sur and its campaign to

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.

STATEMENT BY THE INDIGENOUS COMMUNITY OF SANTA CLARA DE UCHUNYA Gathered in Yarinacocha, at 16:00 hours, members of the Indigenous community Santa Clara de Uchunya, with the presence of representatives of the Federation of Native Communities of Ucayali (FECONAU), the Regional Or

On 13 December, representatives and community members of the Santa Clara de Uchunya community, accompanied by their representative indigenous organisations, reaffirmed their struggle against the territorial dispossession they have suffered since several years by the company Plantaciones de Pucallpa, whose plantations are now operated by Grupo Ocho Sur.

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. 

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.  

Investigations link palm oil produced on the dispossessed lands of Amazonian community Santa Clara de Uchunya with Dutch agricultural commodity trader Louis Dreyfus Company (LDC).  

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.

The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights has granted precautionary measures to the indigenous Shipibo-Konibo community Santa Clara de Uchunya and to  the Federation of Native Communities of Ucayali, in the Peruvian Amazon.