The law now protects the community’s health and way of life. Indigenous woman achieves historic legal victory in fight to ...

Tarcila Rivera-Zea, a member of the Quechua community in Peru, has spent decades pushing for Native peoples to be heard. By Shivani Vora This article is part of a Women and Leadership special ...

As Linda Alvarado, a young Indigenous Yine leader, travels through the forest in the depths of the Peruvian Amazon, she ...

Brush in hand, eyes on the cloth, the Peruvian woman paints as she sings ... a Shipibo-Konibo Indigenous community nestled in the Amazon. “These pieces are sacred,” she added.

The puma, the Peruvian desert cat and the Andean cat ... thanks to a project driven by Indigenous women, led by Quechua biologist Merinia Mendoza Almeida and cat expert Jim Sanderson.

BOGOTA, Colombia — Indigenous leaders from the Peruvian Amazon who are calling for the government to stop oil and gas projects in their territory took their case to an international human rights ...

Between 1995-2000, 300,000 women in Peru, mostly poor indigenous peasants who did not speak Spanish, were forcibly sterilized by the Fujimori government. The Peruvian feminist movement has been ...

Indigenous and riverine communities in the Loreto region of the Peruvian Amazon have "chronic exposure" to mercury, according to a new study — and experts say the biggest culprit is gold mining in the ...

Sadith Silvano, from Paoyhan, a Shipibo-Konibo Indigenous community in the Amazon, puts on an earring at her home and workshop where she hand-paints textiles in Lima, Peru, Saturday, Oct. 19 ...