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Peru must improve tax collection and ensure that mining revenues address the persistent poverty in mining communities.
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Fiscal justice in the South
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Protecting tropical forests means protecting the rights of indigenous peoples, local communities, and front-line defenders who are finding that their land and ways of life are under threat from unchecked agribusiness expansion.
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There's an important difference between the income reported in Oxfam's "Ripe for Change" report and research on small-scale cocoa farmers in the world's largest cocoa exporting country.