Bill 7549/2023-CR grants amnesty to members of the Armed Forces, the Peruvian National Police, Self-Defense Committees and State officials denounced or prosecuted for crimes committed between 1980 and ...

UN experts on Thursday warned that the Peruvian Congress' approval of a bill granting amnesty to persons who committed serious human rights violations during the internal armed conflict between 1980 ...

UN experts expressed alarm Thursday over a Peruvian law that would grant amnesty to military, police and state perpetrators of rights violations during a bloody campaign against leftist guerrillas ...

Peru's Congress has passed a law granting "humanitarian" amnesty to nearly 900 military and police officers convicted or ...

GENEVA - UN experts* today expressed alarm at the approval by Peru's Congress of a bill granting amnesty to perpetrators of gross human rights ...

An attack by armed assailants on a patrol of a mission by the Indigenous Wampis guards last week in the Peruvian Amazon has again brought into focus the issue of illegal gold mining in the ancestral t ...

The World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) condemns the recent adoption of the Amnesty Law and urges the Peruvian State ...

Miners in Peru who have been allowed to operate with temporary permits have paused protests that blocked a major copper transit route for more than two weeks, one of the protest leaders, Luis Huaman, ...

In addition to establishing impunity for police and military killers, the law sets the stage for a rupture with international ...