indigenous rights

Comprometidos en contruir y fortalecer la gobernanza ambiental y promover el ejercicio de los derechos humanos en la Amazonía.

Civil society and indigenous organizations reject repeated initiatives to weaken environmental and indigenous peoples’ regulations that would affect the right to life, health, territory and nature

por Gisella Valdivia | Oct 10, 2023 | Amazon, Biological Diversity, environmental management, hydrocarbons, indigenous rights, Infrastructure, Mining, Natural Protected Areas, PIACI, prior consultation, Sustainability Program

Civil society organizations and indigenous peoples speak out against the series of proposals by the Executive, Congress and other private sector actors, which under the discourse of promoting investments and ending "environmental paperwork" seek to dismantle the...

We need a national discussion on what energy transition the country needs, including all Peruvians.

por Gisella Valdivia | Sep 18, 2023 | Amazon, Climate Change, Energy Transition, environmental management, extractive, hydrocarbons, indigenous rights, Natural Protected Areas, Renewable Energy, Transparency

"We are experiencing an assault of economic interests to reduce Peru's environmental regulatory capacity," said César Gamboa, executive director of Law, Environment and Natural Resources (DAR), during his participation in the roundtable: "The just and popular energy...

More than 30 leaders of the indigenous peoples of the Upper and Lower Urubamba were trained to improve their participation in the protection of their territories in the context of extractive industries.

por Gisella Valdivia | Jul 3, 2023 | Amazon, Defenders, EITI, Escazú, extractive, hydrocarbons, indigenous rights, Infrastructure, prior consultation

Quillabamba, June 16, 2023. The Machiguenga Council of the Urubamba River (COMARU) in alliance with Law, Environment and Natural Resources (DAR) held a workshop entitled "Transparency, protection of defenders in extractive industries and EITI initiative: monitoring...

CORPI-San Lorenzo leaders denounce the reactivation of road, hydrocarbon and carbon market projects in their territories during local capacity-building workshop

por Gisella Valdivia | Jun 27, 2023 | Biological Diversity, Climate Change, EITI, environmental management, extractive, Genre, hydrocarbons, indigenous rights, Infrastructure, Loreto, Renewable Energies, roads

Photo: DAR As part of the 27th anniversary of the Regional Coordinator of Indigenous Peoples of San Lorenzo (CORPI-SL), Derecho, Ambiente y Recursos Naturales (DAR) developed a workshop to strengthen the capacities of more than 80 leaders of its grassroots federations...

Peruvian democracy and the extractive model

por Gisella Valdivia | Jun 19, 2023 | Business and Human Rights, DAR Opinions, environmental management, extractive, indigenous rights, News

By César Gamboa Balbín Law, Environment and Natural Resources It is undeniable that the social conflict in Peru in recent months has had economic, political and social consequences. In fact, the government of Dina Boluarte is presented as a continuity in the weakening...