Peru Sued for Failing to Protect Indigenous Tribes
Peru Sued for Failing to Protect Indigenous Tribes
Published 9 February 2017
“I don’t want my children to be destroyed by oil … That’s why we’re defending ourselves,” said one member of the Matses tribe.
After struggling for 14 years, Peru’s national Indigenous organization is taking Peru’s Ministry of Culture to court for its negligence of the country’s uncontacted tribes.
AIDESEP has been calling on the Peruvian government to meet its obligation to map out and create five Indigenous reserves in the Amazon Uncontacted Frontier, where uncontacted Indigenous peoples live.
After granting the Canadian oil company Pacific E&P the right to explore Yavari Tapiche, a proposed Indigenous reserve in the frontier, the Peruvian government has made no efforts to protect those uncontacted tribes that live there, alleges AIDESEP. Many working on the campaign against oil exploration in the area fear that the tribes could be wiped out from diseases to which they have no resistance if they come into contact with outsiders.
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