RRI Collaborator AIDESEP (Asociación Interétnica de Desarrollo de la Selva Peruana) has published its newsletter for February 2013. The newsletter includes an update on new governmental actions against Indigenous Peoples that participated in the 2009 community protests in the Bagua province of Peru.

Bagua has been experiencing social unrest for the past several years around the occupation of road infrastructure by indigenous communities” who are protesting against new laws that would allow oil and mining companies to enter indigenous territories without seeking consent or consultation of local people.

Read the newsletter (in Spanish).

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