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    Declaration of the Interethnic Association on the Development of the Peruvian Jungle (AIDESEP) CAMISEA Project Demonstrates Lack of Planning: Attempt on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

    Aware of the current situation facing our peoples, the Interethnic Association on the Development of the Peruvian Jungle (AIDESEP) – the organization that defends and promotes the rights of indigenous peoples in the Peruvian Amazon – expresses the following:The concurrence of the electoral process, the release of a

    March 8, 2006
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    ASOCIACION INTERÉTNICA DE DESARROLLO DE LA SELVA PERUANA PRONUNCIAMIENTO PROYECTO CAMISEA MUESTRA DE IMPROVISACIÓN: ATENTA CONTRA LOS DERECHOS DE PUEBLOS INDIGENAS.

    La Asociación Interétnica de Desarrollo de la Selva Peruana – AIDESEP, organización que defiende y promueve los derechos de los pueblos indígenas de la amazonía peruana, concientes de las actuales situaciones en las que se encuentran nuestros pueblos expresamos lo siguiente:La coyuntura actual del proceso electo

    March 8, 2006
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    IDB Announces Additional Actions related to Camisea Gas Project in Peru

    The Inter-American Development Bank is deeply concerned about the five spills that have occurred on the Camisea natural gas liquids pipeline since 2004, including the most recent release that happened on March 4 at Kilometer 126 in the district of Echarati in the department of Cuzco.

    March 7, 2006
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    Comite de Gestion del Bajo Urubamba Pronunciamiento

    A LOS REPRESENTANTES DEL GOBIERNO CENTRALAL GOBIERNO REGIONAL CUSCO.AL MINISTERIO DE ENERGÍA Y MINASA OSINERG.A PERUPETRO.AL DEFENSOR DEL PUEBLO.A LA DEFENSORIA DEL PROYECTO DEL GAS DE CAMISEA.A TGP.A LA SOCIEDAD EN GENERAL.OTRA VEZ DERRAME DE LIQUIDOS DEL GAS NATURAL

    March 6, 2006
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    U’WA: A CALL FOR JUSTICE, A CALL FOR SUPPORT

    “The U'wa people, by the power we have held for thousands of years, feel ourselves compelled to call out to the world. Understand that the strength of our power is with our words. We, the U'wa, are nonviolent people. Our power is our instinctive respect and spiritual consciousness.

    December 23, 2005
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    COMARU - CECONAMA 2do Pronunciamiento Sobre Cuarto Derrame de Camisea

    SEGUNDO PRONUNCIAMIENTO DE LAS FEDERACIONES DE COMUNIDADES NATIVAS DEL BAJO URUBAMBA28 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2005AL MINISTERIO DE ENERGÍA Y MINASA PERUPETROAL DEFENSOR DEL PUEBLOA LA DEFENSORÍA DEL PROYECTO GAS DE CAMISEAA OSINERGA LOS MEDIOS DE COMUNICACIÓN NACIONALESA LA

    November 28, 2005
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    COMARU Pronouncement on Camisea Project's 4th Gas Spill

    To the Ministry of Energy and MinesTo PerupetroTo the Defensor del Pueblo (Human Rights Ombudsman)To the Defensoria del Proyecto Camisea (Human Rights Ombudsman on the Camisea Project)To OSINERG (Peru Energy Regulatory Agency)To the Regional Government of CuscoTo the General Public

    November 25, 2005
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    XVII Congress of the Native Communities of the Upper and Lower Urubamba Pronouncement

    To the Ministry of Energy and MinesTo the Representative of PerupetroTo the Defensor del Pueblo (People’s Advocate)The signatories below participating in the XVII Congress of the Native Communities of the Urubamba Valley between the 22nd and 24th of October in the Casa Machiguenga of the Urubamba River lo

    October 25, 2005
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    COMARU Carta al Gobierno Peruano Sobre Lote 56

    Comunidad Nativa Shivankoreni11 de abril de 2005SeñoraEcon. Iris Cardenas PinoDirectora GeneralAsuntos Ambientales EnergeticosMinisterio de Energia y MinasAsunto: Nuestra posicion con respecto a una audiencia publica el 2 de mayo (Ref. Oficio No.

    April 11, 2005
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    COMARU Communique on Camisea Oil Spill

    TGP PROVOKES PETROLEUM SPILL IN THE URUBAMBA VALLEYThe Machiguenga Committee of Lower Urubamba – COMARU makes public that on the 22nd of December there was a petroleum spill of major proportion stemming from the Camisea gas pipeline that transports hydrocarbons from the Las Malvinas plant in the Urubamba River to the

    December 26, 2004
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    CVX LEGAL CASE UPDATE: Remediation of Waste Pits in Ecuadorian Amazon was inadequate!

    Scientists Reveal Devastating Proof of Toxins In Suit Against ChevronTexaco in EcuadorHigh Levels of Cancer-Causing Chemicals Found In “Remediated”Waste Pits Quito, Ecuador– The harrowing results of one of the first judicial inspections of the areas contaminated by ChevronTexaco in Ecuador were annou

    December 1, 2004
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    Update on ChevronTexaco Trial and Inspections: Phase II of ChevronTexaco’s “Rainforest Chernobyl” Trial is underway As the judge begins official “Inspections” of ChevronTexaco’s contamination in Ecuador’s Amazon, local Bay Area residents s

    Ten months after the “Rainforest Chernobyl” trial began in the Supreme Court in Lago Agrio, Ecuador, the judicial inspections – marking Phase II of the trial – began yesterday at one of Texaco’s former oil camps, Campo Sacha in Joya de las Sachas, in the Ecuadorian Amazon.

    August 19, 2004
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