The Latest Breaking News from Peru

Updated travel advice for South American nation comes amid surge in violence

German coal giant is one of world’s biggest polluters and should contribute to flood defences, says farmer in Peru

A German court has started hearing a Peruvian farmer’s case against major energy company RWE

The case has taken nearly 10 years to be heard with judges travelling to Peru to visit his village.

A Peruvian farmer faces off in a German court Monday in a "David and Goliath" battle against an energy giant, demanding the firm pay for climate change damage.

Experts say legislation will prevent vulnerable people from accessing justice in latest government-backed crackdown

A groundbreaking climate lawsuit heads to trial in Germany next week, as Peruvian farmer Saúl Luciano Lliuya challenges German energy giant RWE

When the first cases of COVID began to spread around the world in early 2020, people in Iquitos, a remote city in the Peruvian Amazon, weren’t unduly worried. They assumed their isolation would protect them. It didn’t. Peru, and Iquitos, were hit fast and hard.

Indigenous leaders from the Peruvian Amazon have urged the government to halt oil and gas projects that threaten their lands, presenting their case before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR)