Human Rights Watch has warned that Peru's Congress is seriously undermining the judicial system's ability to combat organized ...

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

LIMA (Reuters) - Peru's business associations said on Friday that the country is "losing the battle" against organized crime, after an escalation in extortions forced the government to call in the ...

Latin America and the Caribbean rank among the regions with the highest rates of criminal activity worldwide, marked by a strong presence of illicit markets and limited institutional capacity to ...

A UAE-coordinated law enforcement operation targeting environmental crime in the Amazon Basin has led to 94 arrests and the ...

The Attorney General's Office and environmental prosecutors warn that recently approved and proposed laws in Congress pose serious obstacles to effectively punishing those responsible for illegal ...

Peru 's Congress is undermining the independence and capacity of judges and prosecutors to fight organized crime, Human ...

According to the Global Organized Crime Index, Peru ranks high for criminal activity in South America. The government estimates that crime and corruption cost the country about $6 billion in 2022.

Peru’s Congress is actively eroding the independence and capacity of the judiciary to fight organized crime, according to a report released Tuesday by Human Rights Watch (HRW). The report, “Congress ...

The president of one of Lima's largest parent-teacher associations says at least 1,000 schools in the Peruvian capital are ...

A demonstrator holds a sign which reads, "For our lives, we march today", as people attend a protest against crime and insecurity, in Lima, Peru March 21, 2025. © 2025 REUTERS/Sebastian Castaneda Laws ...