Florentina Loayza was 19 and mother to an infant when she was sterilized by agents of the Peruvian government, against her ...

Indigenous women in Peru fight for justice after forced sterilizations in 1990s, seeking apology and reparations.

Three years ago, while exploring the Mojanda mountain range in Ecuador, a team of researchers from a local NGO and a ...

In a region vulnerable to illegal gold mining and drug-trafficking, the Roraima Indigenous Council is using the money for ...

The dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development will deliver a major blow to efforts including humanitarian ...

Arriving at their destination, the women gently saw along a diagonal ... the Awajún people have been mixing the latex with native Peruvian cotton fibers, coloring it with natural dyes like ...

A documentary about Texas musicians Omar Rodriguez and Cedric Bixter-Zavala, Howard Jones with ABC and singer Rene Marie are ...

The Iowa women’s golf team closed out the Collegiate Invitational at the Guadalajara Country Club in Guadalajara, Mexico, on ...

See All Key Ideas Scientists and Indigenous community members documented 27 new-to-science species in Peru’s Alto Mayo ... particularly benefiting women who are “beginning to learn about ...

GENEVA (6 February 2025) - The UN Child Rights Committee (CRC) today issued its findings on Ecuador, Eritrea, the Gambia, Honduras, Peru, Saint Kitts and Nevis, and Slovakia, after reviewing the seven ...

These included initiatives to support women’s and girls’ rights as well as improving access to the justice system for Indigenous and Afro-Peruvian communities. Trudeau also announced the ...