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Reports reaching us at SAIIC indicate increasing violence and escalating abuse of human rights in Peru.

In Peru where .over 50% of the population is Indian, national perspectives are increasingly worse.

More than 300 indigenous communities have been affected by military conflict taking place along the Peruvian-Ecuadorian border.

Peruvian indigenous communities file suit against Texaco, claiming that Texaco's operations caused severe environmental damage in their region.

President Fujimori denies oil tycoon request for land.

gathering of Indigenous women held in Lima

Peru's old 1933 constitution protected indigenous lands rights and the new constitution threatens to indigenous rights by opening up territories to confiscation by other parties, agricultural development, and possible ecological damage

A Peruvian Ashaninka village, Mazamari, was attacked on August 18-19, 1993 by 150 Sendero guerrillas. 87 villagers were murdered.

"Mujeres Aymaras y Comunicacion" organized a meeting of women in Peru and Bolivia who produce radio programs for women about issues that women and especially indigenous women face.

The Worldwide Alliance of Indigenous Peoples of the Rain Forests held their second conference in Peru which focused on indigenous autonomy.

The following article is a list of issues to be addressed by the congress meeting in response to the massacre of the Ashaninka indigenous peoples in the village of Mazamari

A copy of a calendar of international events related to indigenous populations from November 29, 1993 to March 1994.