Máxima Acuña wins world’s top environmental prize
Máxima Acuña de Chaupe has won the Goldman Environmental Prize, the world’s biggest prize that recognizes environmental rights defenders. She received her prize today, 18th April 2016 in the city … Continue reading
Peruvian state to provide security to the Chaupe family
Source: RPP Noticias The national police will visit Tragadero Grande, the home of the Chaupe family, twice a month to ensure the safety of the family. Attorney Mirtha Vasquez said … Continue reading
BELGIUM ACTIVISTS demonstrate at WORLD BANK offices
CATAPA, a Belgium organisation of environmental and human rights activists, asks the World Bank to declare Conga unviable and to withdraw their investments from Minera Yanacocha. They delivered their demands in a … Continue reading
Maxima Acuña and Elmer Campos tell the World Bank how their investment has destroyed their lives
Maxima Acuña de Chaupe and Elmer Campos, two of the most affected by the attempted imposition of the Conga mining project, have testified during the official World Bank Annual Meeting, … Continue reading
MILTON SANCHEZ to give evidence to the UNITED STATES CONGRESS
Milton Sanchez Cubas, General Secretary of the Plataforma Interinstitucional Celendina (PIC), the platform of local organisations who have come together to defend their water and their territory from the mega … Continue reading
Guardians of the Lagoons facing 35 years in prison
Tomorrow, Thursday 3rd September 2015, the judicial process of 16 environmental and human rights defenders continues in the courts of Cajamarca, northern Peru. The 16 community leaders are accused by … Continue reading
CAJAMARCA: Farmers protest against Minera Yanacocha for contamination and diminished water sources
By Milton Sánchez Residents of 11 communities from the towns of Huacataz and Otuzco, in the province of Cajamarca, users of the irrigation canals Tres Tingos, Muyoc, Huacatáz, Chicospata, among others, marched … Continue reading
FRONT LINE DEFENDERS: Intimidation and death threats against land rights defender
[versión española abajo] 6 August 2015 Update: Peru – Intimidation and death threats against land rights defender Maxima Acuña de Chaupe On 5 August 2015 Ms Maxima Acuña de Chaupe … Continue reading
URGENT: Máxima Acuña receives death threats from Yanacocha worker
Maxima Acuña de Chaupe, the human rights defender who has stood up to the world´s second largest gold producer and refused to leave her land, has received numerous death threats … Continue reading
WAR ON WANT: Death Threats Against Indigenous Human Rights Defender
4 August 2015 – 7:45pm NEWS War on Want’s partner in Peru, the Platform Inter-Institutional of Celendin, supporting the struggle of Maxima Acuna, has communicated that a worker of the … Continue reading
Conga Conflict 