When a government team held a “ligation festival” to register women for sterilization in La Legua, Peru, Celia Durand resisted. The 31-year-old mother of three was appalled at the pressure tactics ...

As the lights turn red, Cindy Novoa launches herself, ball in tow, into one of the busiest intersections in Lima. She brings the ball around the world, then rests it on her forehead, in a sped-up ...

SAO PAULO — Peru’s former First Lady Nadine Heredia and her youngest son arrived in Brazil on Wednesday after the neighboring country granted her asylum, her lawyer and the foreign ministries of both ...

BOGOTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Government health workers spent hours going from door to door to coax, cajole and bully women in a farming community in Peru's highlands to come with them for ...

Pau* was 11 years old when she and her mother left their native Venezuela to make the exhausting overland journey to Peru. For Pau, the transition was a difficult one. At her new school in the ...

Peruvian officials are trying to help a local 7-year-old girl who made international headlines by making a comment to first lady Michelle Obama. The girl told the first lady during a visit to New ...

In Peru, communities in the Andes and the Amazon have come together to defend the health of people and families affected by pollution from toxic metals. To achieve this, they have formed the National ...

Eliane Karp, left, with her husband, former Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo, at a convention in Dublin, Ireland, on Oct. 16, 2014. (Clodagh Kilcoyne/Getty Images via JTA.org) LIMA, Peru — Eliane ...

In the long-running dispute between Yale University and the government of Peru over pre-Columbian artifacts from Machu Picchu, Eliane C. Karp-Toledo is a pivotal figure. Ms. Karp-Toledo is an ...

With a stroke of the pen last week, Peruvian President Manuel Odria scratched Peru’s name from the dwindling list of American nations that deny women the vote. In his oak-paneled office, he signed a ...

LIMA, Peru -- When Belgian-born Eliane Karp became Peru's first lady last year, she promised to shake up the capital's elite and eschew the socialite duties customary to presidential wives. A year ...