The burial belonged to a child who may have lived among fishermen from the Chancay culture, which thrived in Peru before the ...

Indigenous and rural communities from Peru’s northern Amazon have filed a formal complaint against the government for failing ...

I recalled the open-air youth day Mass during Pope John Paul II’s visit to Peru in 1985, when I was 13 years old; it was so hot that day that the authorities sprayed water on us with hoses, as ...

Peru’s Marañón River was made a legal person, granting it the rights to be free-flowing and free of contamination. Mari Luz Canaquiri Murayari, who was central to the campaign, has won the ...

Some posts said it wasn't the first time the river had turned pink. Garbage is seen on the banks of the Rímac River in Lima, Peru, on December 2, 2014. Martin Bernetti/Getty What To Know ...

(MENAFN) At least six people have been confirmed dead, 25 others injured, and 17 more are missing after a bus plunged into a river in northwest Peru, according to local authorities on Friday.

LIMA, Jan. 3 (Xinhua) -- At least six people were killed, 25 injured and 17 remained missing after a bus plunged into a river in northwest Peru, local authorities said Friday. According to the ...

Earlier this year, a Peruvian court granted a river legal personhood. B.C. lawyers helped the Kukama Indigenous Women's Federation in its legal battle for guardianship over the Marañón River.

Mariluz Canaquiri remembers playing on the banks of Peru's Marañón River as a young girl. Every morning, girls from her community fetched water from the river. "Since I was born, my parents made us ...