Source: Inter Press Service News Agency

by Milagros Salazar

LIMA, Oct 10 (IPS) - Peruvian President Alan Garcia has promised support for indigenous family farms and microenterprises. But a new report points to a bigger challenge that has not been addressed by the government: millions of indigenous people in the country are increasingly feeling the impact of the mining and oil industries and the lack of basic services that respect their identity.

"In Peru, the poorest of the poor, the people who do not even have identity documents, the most neglected and abandoned, are indigenous people," the head of the National Human Rights Coordinating Committee's working group on indigenous people, Wilfredo Ardito, in charge of drafting the report, told IPS.

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Posted by pichu at October 10, 2006 5:30 PM