PERU NEEDS NEW THINKING ON BUSINESS CONFLICTS TO IMPROVE HUMAN RIGHTS - UN EXPERTS
(WorldNews Switzerland)

20 July 2017 GENEVA / LIMA (Issued as received) - The Government of Peru and big businesses need to break with past methods of dealing with social conflict to improve the country`s human rights record, a team of United Nations human rights experts has concluded after a 10-day visit. `Peru has become used to a situation of constantly simmering social conflicts, with more than 100 active situations in any given month,` said Michael K. Addo, one of the experts from the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights. `The majority of these conflicts relate to large-scale business operations in mining, hydrocarbon and energy,` Mr. Addo noted. In the past five years, social conflicts had caused 70...