NEWS

• Amazonas Regional Government revokes Afrodita mining permit

  03 September 2016

  The Regional Government of Amazonas has revoked a permit to carry out gold extraction operations in the Cordillera del Cóndor previously granted to the mining company Afrodita by the Dirección Regional de Energía y Minas.

• Dialogue in prospect at Las Bambas

  27 August 2016

  The resumption of talks concerning the development of Las Bambas is expected to take place on 7-8 September, following protracted delays and accusations by the community of bad faith on the part of the government.

• Investigation into forced sterilisation reopened

  27 August 2016

  On 23 August, Prosecutor Luis Landa Burgos ordered the reopening of the investigation into the case against those deemed responsible for the creation of the state programme on human reproduction in the 1990s.

• Ni una menos: not a woman less, not another death

  20 August 2016

  On Saturday 13 August, a historic rally was held in Lima, several other cities in Peru and, indeed, among Peruvian communities abroad. Some claim that as many as 500,000 people took to the streets of Lima, marching to the Palace of Justice. Even the president, Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, was there; the city was overtaken by the sheer amount of people who came together to show their solidarity for women who have been abused and who have been refused redress in the courts.

• Mining-led growth

  20 August 2016

  According to the National Statistics Institute last week, the Peruvian economy expanded by 4.1% in the first half year (on the same period of 2015). In the whole of 2015, growth was 3.3%.

• Fujipardon? Not for the time being

  29 July 2016

  The possibility of Ollanta Humala signing a last-minute presidential pardon for Alberto Fujimori appeared was scotched, at least for the time being, when the outgoing president said he would not make such a move.

• Santos walks free, for the time being

  29 July 2016

  Gregorio Santos, elected regional president of Cajamarca in 2010 and re-elected in 2014, and presidential candidate in 2016, walked free from jail on 27 July, apparently to resume the regional presidency of Cajamarca.

• Business cabinet

  29 July 2016

  It may be of interest to readers to look at the opinion piece which Francisco Durand has written for Convoca in which he challenges the idea that the cabinet is made up of ‘independents’.

• Forced sterilisations case shelved

  29 July 2016

  On 27 July, just before the end of the last day of the Humala administration, the long-awaited ruling over the case of forced sterilisations was announced. The public prosecutor announced that the case would be shelved (archivado).

• Mining and its potential contribution to the SDGs

  23 July 2016

  A new report has just appeared entitled "Mapping Mining to the Sustainable Development Goals: An Atlas". It takes the new Sustainable Development Goals which 193 countries signed up to in September 2015, and works through each showing the potential for mining to contribute, giving a number of success stories for each goal.

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