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

Lawyers in Peru are challenging a new amnesty law passed by Congress. The law grants amnesty to military members and ...

Critics warn the law would hinder the search for truth about the victims of Peru’s decades-long armed conflict.

Father Robert Prevost’s early years in Peru shaped his ministry and vision for the church—but few know the brutal reality he ...

Peru's Congress has approved a law granting amnesty to military, police and other forces prosecuted for rights violations ...

Lawyers for victims of human rights abuses during Peru's armed conflict vowed to appeal to international bodies Thursday to knock down an amnesty law passed by the country's Congress the previous ...

Although I had set out to answer the question, “Who is Pope Leo XIV?” the question I had succeeded in answering was “Who is ...

L I M A, Peru, Nov. 20 -- Peru’s President Alberto Fujimori, holed up in a hotel in Japan, has presented his resignation, the head of Congress said today. “President Fujimori’s resignation ...

Secretary-General Gonzalo Gutierrez expressed his sorrow over the <a href=" passing of former Foreign Affairs Minister Jose Antonio Garcia Belaunde.

The Emergency-era sterilisation campaign, under the leadership Sanjay Gandhi, masquerading as population control, was a spuriously neo-Malthusian, eugenic exercise of state violence ...

How Peru’s Legislature is Allowing Organized Crime to Thrive,” details how recent legislative actions and decisions by ...

Peruvian Lava Jato prosecutor José Domingo Pérez submitted a filing Wednesday requesting a 35-year prison sentence for former presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori, in a revised criminal indictment in ...