Native communities from the Peruvian Amazon and the Andes have filed at least eight lawsuits against the government since passage of the so-called "prior consultation" law in 2011.

Indigenous people in the Peruvian Amazon who have only recently come into contact with the outside world have created their ...

Peruvian police open fire on Indians blocking a road in Utcubamba province on June 5, 2009, during clashes that left 10 civilians and 23 police dead and 82 civilians wounded by gunshots.

Owned by Peruvian native Erci Vasquez and her husband Stuart, the company buys coffee from farmers in northern Peru — for a fair price — and transports it to larger centres to sell to coffee ...

He’s spent the last two years speaking with and photographing Peru’s Indigenous Quechua people in the Andes region, he said. His work, he said, has included cataloging civil unrest amid then ...

In a conciliatory move, Peru's government has promised Amazon Indians it will ask Congress to revoke decrees that native groups say would make it easier to exploit their lands for oil, gas and ...

He said the Mashco-Piro are one of about 15 “uncontacted” tribes in Peru that together are estimated to number between 12,000 and 15,000 people living in jungles east of the Andes.

Prevost, a Chicago native and former superior of his Augustinian order who began ministering in Peru in the 1980s, takes over the important Holy See office that helps vet bishop nominations around ...

LIMA, Peru (AP) -- Ashaninka and Yines Indians are blocking an airport in the central Peruvian jungle town of Atalaya as well as two stations on a northern oil pipeline ...

LIMA, Peru - Peruvian authorities say they are struggling to keep outsiders away from a clan of previously isolated Amazon Indians who began appearing on the banks of a jungle river popular with ...

The law, based on an international pact Peru signed in 1993, aimed to grant overdue rights to indigenous people and prevent deadly clashes over mining and energy projects. But several native ...