Pau* was 11 years old when she and her mother left their native Venezuela to make the exhausting overland journey to Peru. For Pau, the transition was a difficult one. At her new school in the ...

Indigenous women leaders play a key role as defenders of their territories, biodiversity and ancestral knowledge. From their communities, they lead environmental restoration, collective health care, ...

In Peru, women’s rights exist in a strange paradox: on paper, we have the laws, the representation, and the international commitments that promise equality; in reality, our lives tell a different ...

Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. The queuña forests in Peru, once covering vast stretches of the ...

UC Santa Cruz scholar Justin Perez is an assistant professor of Latin American and Latino studies whose research focuses on how the ongoing global AIDS epidemic shapes the lives and social worlds of ...

Peruvians have gone mad for the boxer Kina Malpartida, an unlikely sports figure in this South American country where soccer, even if not played well, is king. You see, Malpartida is a woman but she ...