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A new #bill under debate in #Peru ’s #congress seeks to #reevaluate the #existence of every #Indigenous reserve for #isolated peoples to determine whether to keep them or scrap them completely.
The bill would shift #DecisionMaking #power into the hands of #regional #governments and include #economic interests in the #evaluation process, which #HumanRights and #environmental #experts call #legally #flawed and a human rights #violation .
Peru congress debates stripping isolated Indigenous people of land and protections
A new legislative proposal, criticized by opponents as a step backwards in recognizing the rights and protections of uncontacted and recently contacted Indigenous people, is currently under debate in Peru’s congress. The controversial proposal, which seeks to alter the current Law for the Protection of Indigenous Peoples in Isolation and Initial Contact Situations (known as […]