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

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

A St. Paul woman and local university researcher has set up a GoFundMe account to help in the search for her former husband ...

In conversation with Ana Margarita Flores and Marisol Mendez on multifaceted identities, belonging, and portraying the ...

Illegal gold mining in Peru's Loreto region has resulted in widespread mercury contamination, affecting nearly 80% of local inhabitants. Pregnant women and children are at significant risk, as mercury ...

The U.S. spends less than 1% of its budget on foreign assistance. Tim Rieser, a senior foreign policy aide in the Senate who works for Democratic Vermont Sen. Peter Welch, called DOGE’s cuts to USAID ...

UNESCO Peru, the Lima Art Museum (MALI), the Antonio Ruiz de Montoya University (UARM), the Graduate School of the Peruvian University of Applied Sciences (EPG of the UPC), and the Universidad ...

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 ...

Rural and Indigenous women across the globe rely on land, forests and water for their livelihoods. Access to, use of, and ...

After quitting her corporate job in New York City, one woman is spending a year traveling solo through 12 countries.

Huamán Andía also received the Denny Prize for Distinction in Writing at St. Kate's annual faculty and staff awards ceremony ...