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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

The Regional Indigenous Guard Organisation and its recognised bases met in the Indigenous community of Santa Clara de Yarinacocha to celebrate the second anniversary of the Guard.

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.

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

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.

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:

The UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and the environment, Dr. David Boyd, is preparing a report on “Women, Girls and the Right to a Clean, Healthy and Sustainable Environment,” a right recognized in 2021 by UN Human Rights Council Resolution 48/13.

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.  

This week more than fifty Indigenous and human rights organisations and dozens of individuals from across Peru and internationally issued a statement condemning attempts by the Peruvian National Police and the Ocho Sur palm oil group to criminalise human rights defender Linda Vigo for her work to defend Indigenous peoples’ rights in the Ucayali region of 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.

Organisations of the Kichwa, Shipibo-Konibo and Kakataibo peoples, together with human rights organisations, have submitted a shadow report to that presented by the Peruvian State for the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of the intergovernmental working group of the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council.

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