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La Parada Market, Lima. Street kids

Collection: Rights and Realities In the ’90s, this informal market place in the centre of Lima was considered very dangerous with a high incidence of crime. It was congested with street vendors. Many street kids hung out here. 
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La Parada Market, Lima. Street vendor

Collection: Rights and Realities In the ’90s, this informal market place in the centre of Lima was considered very dangerous with a high incidence of crime. It was congested with street vendors. Many street kids hung out here.  
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Villa El Salvador. Saturday afternoon

Collection: Rights and Realities Villa El Salvador began in 1971 as a pueblo joven (shantytown) in the vast, empty sand flats to the south of Lima because of the urgent housing needs of immigrant families who had left the sierra of…
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Puppet Theater

Collection: Rights and Realities Puppet theatre is a means to reach children and inform them of their rights. The troupe is preparing a procession through a neighbourhood to gather, entertain and inform children.  
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Ana

Collection: Rights and Realities Marchas de Sacrifició. About 200 miners and their families have been squatting behind the Casa de los Mineros in Lima for two years. Left with no compensation and often owed many months of wages, they’re…
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Radio Villa El Salvador

Collection: Rights and Realities Nellie interviews residents on the problem of garbage for the daily radio program “Buenas Dias Familias” for the community radio station Sterio Villa of Villa El Salvador.  
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Shoemaker

Collection: Rights and Realities This enterprising woman learnt her trade by watching her husband. She set up a kiosk on a street in Lima and now runs her small shoe repair business.  
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Rosa

Collection: Rights and Realities PRODEMU (Promoción y Defensa de la Mujer), a women’s organization based in Tarapoto, a city in the Peruvian jungle, works with communities for social and economic rights of women, children and families,…
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Ayacucho

Collection: Rights and Realities Flowers for the government representative who will be distributing the food.  
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Ayacucho

Ayacucho Collection: Rights and Realities Ayacucho was the area most affected by the 14 year-long war. Six thousand families were displaced because of the terrorism and the violence of the Shining Path and the Peruvian military. Women…