By Paula Bayarte Lima, Apr 29 (EFE).- More than six centuries after the inhabitants of the Huarochiri Mountains built a system of communally managed irrigation channels to sustain agriculture, contemporary Peruvians are restoring the apparatus to cope with water shortages connected with climate change. Known in the indigenous Quechua language as amuna (“to retain”), the …
By Paula Bayarte Lima, Apr 27 (EFE).- The deforestation of large swaths of the Peruvian Amazon not only deserves attention due to its environmental ramifications, according to the non-governmental organization Proetica. That scourge also is part of larger corruption-fueled organized crime rackets whose illegal activities include irregular mining, drug trafficking and threats to indigenous leaders …
By Paula Bayarte Lima, Apr 21 (EFE).- Dakarai and Noam do not have the same rights as other children in Peru. They can neither gain access to inheritance nor healthcare services like the rest because they have two mothers. This affects the children’s right to identity and puts their families in long legal fights. In …
By Paula Bayarte Lima, Apr 19 (EFE).- More than half of the births registered in Peru during the past five years were not desired at conception, according to the United Nations, a figure that involves many failings including the infringement of the right for women to plan their families, the infrequent use of birth control …
By Paula Bayarte and Gonzalo D. Loeda Lima, Apr 6 (EFE).- Nine days after defeating a bid by opposition lawmakers to oust him, Peruvian President Pedro Castillo was confronted Wednesday by intensifying calls for his resignation amid conflict with Congress, a truckers’ strike, and his opponents’ growing dominance on the streets of this capital and …