An attack by armed assailants on a patrol of a mission by the Indigenous Wampis guards last week in the Peruvian Amazon has ...

The World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) condemns the recent adoption of the Amnesty Law and urges the Peruvian State ...

Miners in Peru who have been allowed to operate with temporary permits have paused protests that blocked a major copper transit route for more than two weeks, one of the protest leaders, Luis Huaman, ...

In addition to establishing impunity for police and military killers, the law sets the stage for a rupture with international ...

Critics warn the law would hinder the search for truth about the victims of Peru’s decades-long armed conflict.

Lawyers for victims of human rights abuses during Peru's armed conflict vowed to appeal to international bodies Thursday to knock down an amnesty law passed by the country's Congress the previous ...

Peru's Congress has passed a controversial amnesty law for military and civilians involved in human rights abuses during the ...

Peru's Congress has approved a law granting amnesty to military, police and other forces prosecuted for rights violations ...

Human Rights Watch has warned that Peru's Congress is seriously undermining the judicial system's ability to combat organized ...

Peru’s Congress is actively eroding the independence and capacity of the judiciary to fight organized crime, according to a report released Tuesday by Human Rights Watch (HRW). The report, “Congress ...

The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation said two of its American aid workers were injured in an attack while distributing ...