NorLARNet Seminar: Another Avatar in the Andes? Politics and socio-environmental conflict in Humala’s Peru
In this seminar we will take stock of the changes that have occurred in Peru since Humala’s take-over, focusing in particular on the evolution of resource extraction and social-environmental conflicts.
On 28th of July 2011 former army officer and left wing politician Ollanta Humala entered the presidential office in Peru on the promise of change after decades of right wing and center-right governments. He campaigned on a program to ensure that the country’s recent economic growth would benefit broader layers of the population, and gained much support from rural and indigenous communities. However, in spite of the passing of the law of the Right to Previous Consultation for Indigenous Peoples and First Nations, making Peru the first Latin American country bound for an effective implementation of the right to consultation under the International Labor Organization’s Convention 169, socio-environmental conflicts are – again - on the rise particularly related to the extraction of mining resources.
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