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Peru

News U.S. to Vote on Aid for Peruvian Gas Project The Bush administration is preparing this week to vote on financial support for a controversial $1.6 billion natural... July 27, 2003

Campaign Update Banks Poised to Vote as Findings of Field Investigation Expose Camisea’s Deadly Impacts A preliminary report released today by U.S. NGOs Amazon Alliance, Amazon Watch and Environmental Defense confirms that the... July 24, 2003

Report June 2003 Investigative Mission to Indigenous Communities Affected By the Camisea Project. Upper and Lower Urubamba River Valley, Peru. Download report in PDF format (31 k)IntroductionThe absence of a truly independent monitoring system for the environmental and... July 24, 2003

Press Release Peru’s Camisea Pipeline Scars Primary Rainforest $600 M in Taxpayer Support Hinges on U.S. Vote Next Week Will Ex-Im Bank Risk Backward Step Among OECD Nations? Texas-based Hunt Oil and Halliburton Stand to Gain See Washington, D.C. – Next week, the United States Export-Import Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank will vote whether... July 24, 2003

Report Position and Recommendations Presented by Various Peruvian Civil Society Organizations to the IADB, The Andean Development Corporation (CAF) and the Export - Import Bank as Potential Financiers of the Camisea Project. Download this report in PDF format (48k)The Inter-American Development Bank (IADB), through its Private Sector department (PRI), the... July 2, 2003

Report Posición y Recomendaciones que Diversas Organizaciones de la Sociedad Civil del Perú Presentan Ante el BID, la CAF y el EXIM Bank como Potenciales Entidades Financieras del Proyecto Camisea Descarga el Informe en formato PDF (69k)Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (BID) a través de su departamento del Sector... July 2, 2003

Report Camisea Natural Gas Project Environmental Evaluation Background and Objectives The government of Peru has embarked on an ambitious program to develop natural gas reserves in the Camisea... June 28, 2003

Campaign Update The IDB urged to deny taxpayer dollars for the Camisea gas project Enrique V. IglesiasPresidentInter-American Development BankWashington, D.C. 20577U.S.A.Dear Enrique V. May 9, 2003

Campaign Update Indigenous Leaders March on the IDB Denouncing Camisea Project’s “Irreparable Harm to Indigenous Lives On May 9 2003, over 50 indigenous protesters joined together to march through Washington to the Inter-American Development... May 9, 2003

Press Release Camisea Project Sparks Protest by Amazon Indigenous Peoples at Inter-American Development Bank Friday May 9, 1:00PM WHAT: Indigenous and environmental leaders will hold a demonstration at the Inter-American Development Bank against the U.S. May 7, 2003

Campaign Update Nahua Community Inside Nahua Kugapakori Reserve Say No to All Oil Development! “If another company comes here, our rivers and land will be destroyed!”In April 2003, the Nahua people of... May 1, 2003

Campaign Update Peruvian Indigenous Organizations Call for Camisea Project To Withdraw from State Reserve for Indigenous Peoples Who Reject Contact with Outside World Inter-American Development Bank Official Responds, “What You Want Will Not Happen!” In a statement to Peruvian authorities, international banks and the international community dated March 2003, Peru’s national indigenous... March 31, 2003

Press Release Inter-American Development Bank President Iglesias Admits Serious Flaws in Camisea Gas Project: Still, No Commitment to Loan In a meeting with international NGOs at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) annual meetings in Milan, Italy, President... March 24, 2003

Report El Gas de Camisea y los Pueblos Indígenas de la Amazonia Peruana Problemática y Propuestas PresentaciónLa Asociación Interétnica de Desarrollo de la Selva Peruana, AIDESEP y el Consejo Machiguenga del río Urubamba, COMARU,... March 1, 2003

Press Release U.S. Public Banks Back in the Spotlight Over Financing for Camisea Gas Project in Peru’s Amazon Heartland Hunt Oil –Ally to President Bush –Faces Renewed Controversy As Disease Rocks Camisea Maps, Photos, Video Footage, Related Reports Available Washington, DC – Today US NGOs issued a comprehensive statement to the Inter-American Development Bank, urging the rejection... February 25, 2003

Press Release The Camisea Gas Project And Forced Contact with Indigenous Peoples Living in Voluntary Isolation TO: Enrique Iglesias, President, Inter-American Development Bank CC: Jose Fourquet, Executive Director, Inter-American Development Bank; Keith Kozloff, Department... February 25, 2003

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