Forming sustainable research partnerships with Indigenous peoples requires trust and mutual benefit, say microbiome ...

Peru’s culinary popularity masks shocking inequality and food insecurity among the country’s indigenous peoples.

Peru’s Indigenous Shawi people continue to contest a plan to build a highway through their territory in the country’s ...

GNI per capita $7,090 in 2023 (Chile $15,800, UK $47,700) Peru primarily exports raw materials, with China, the US and Canada ...

LIMA, Peru-Pressed up against the remote jungle border with Brazil's Javari Valley Indigenous Territory, Peru's Amazonian region of Yavari Mirim has long been known as home to some of the last tribal ...

While women are visible in politics and public life, many still face systemic inequalities in health, safety, and access to ...

A Catholic bishop in Peru’s Amazon is warning that mercury from illegal gold mining is contaminating rivers, fish and people ...

Countries across the Americas are tweaking their census to better understand their population, allowing them to create more responsive policies. The US still has a ways to go.

One of the most listened-to genres in the Americas, photographers and storytellers Karla Gachet and Ivan Kashinsky document ...

Youth-led protests herald the deepening and escalation of workers’ struggles, as demonstrated by the transport strike and an ...

Indigenous territories and the people who defend them in the Peruvian Amazon face a litany of growing threats, activist ...

Since time immemorial, Indigenous Peoples have inhabited the territory now included in the Oxapampa-Asháninka-Yánesha Biosphere Reserve (BIOAY) in central Peru. The Yánesha people, also known as ...