Peru: History of crimes against people and the environment
Published on Sun, 2017-08-20 22:26
In the first four months of 2017, severe floods isolated hundreds of Peruvian towns, leaving thousands of families homeless and destroying over 100 bridges. The waters have swept away bridges and roads. The Amazon, Marañón, Ucayali and Napo rivers, in the Amazon region, are under red alert because owing to a critical level of flow and danger of overflow. According to the World Bank, damage to the environment has an economic cost of 3.9 percent of gross domestic product (GDP), and mainly affects the poorest populations. In spite of te high vulnerability to human-made natural disasters, the national Social Watch report finds tenacious resistance to more sustainable practices by those who argue that environmental regulation is an obstacle to economic growth and corporate profits. Source: Peru National Report 2017. » |
Reports from Peru
2017 - History of crimes against people and the environment
2016 - Mining, Oil and Logging Concessions Challenge Implementation of the 2030 Agenda
2014 - Perú avanzó algo, pero no lo suficiente
2012 - Environmental disaster and minimal efforts
2010 - More money but the same social injustice
2008 - The neoliberal economic programme: cluster bomb against human rights
2007 - Meagre pensions, a precarious health care system
2006 - Macroeconomic growth and social exclusion
2005 - Not much of an economy for the people
2004 - Towards a new founding pact
2003 - The people halt privatisation
2002 - Change or poverty: that's the question
2001 - Globalisation consolidated poverty and increased inequality
2000 - Commitment by commitment
1999 - Democracy insecure: poverty holding steady
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