Peru faces hearing over threats to uncontacted Indigenous groups in the Amazon

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights holds hearings this week in Montevideo on whether Peru violated the rights of the Mashco Piro, Yora and Amahuaca peoples by failing to protect their Amazon territory from logging, mining, roadbuilding and drug trafficking.

The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights already found Peru responsible for the violations and referred the case to the court in November 2024, asking that Peru demarcate the groups' territory, establish buffer zones, and finish categorizing the Madre de Dios Territorial Reserve as protected.

Peru told the commission it is already taking protective measures and improving its monitoring systems, though the commission's own findings say the state failed to expand the reserve or issue legal land titles despite evidence the isolated groups live there.

Written arguments are due by October 26, and the court has no deadline for a ruling.

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