Weekly Report - 1 July 2010 (WR-10-26)

President Alan Garcí­a has refused to ratify a law approved by congress on 19 May under which the State would be compelled to consult indigenous communities about issues relating to their territories - specifically planned oil and mining projects. The Asociación Interétnica de Desarrollo de la Amazoní­a Peruana (Aidesep), the umbrella indigenous group in Peru's Amazon, complained that the executive was making “a serious mistake, contravening the rule of law", and flying in the face of a broad consensus at the level of political and civil society.