IDL

I went to for lunch at one of the other CUSO-VSO partner organisations on Tuesday called IDL. They are situated in this house with an office building attached to it. Five floors of lawyers, reporters, radio announcers and admin staff all working towards defending human rights in Peru. There was a definite buzz in the office in the aftermath of the elections. Keiko Fujimori and Ollanta Humala will be entering the next round of elections since neither of them won enough votes (50%+) to win outright. Fujimori is the daughter of the former dictator/president of Peru who is now in jail for human rights violations, and Humala is a relative unknown who won the majority of the seats in rural Peru. It's going to be interesting to see who wins the second round because regardless it will mean some serious changes in Peru.

Two of the CUSO-VSO volunteers work there. One is involved directly in defending human rights and Annie, who gave me the tour, is writing for their newspaper and managing their twitter feed. Fascinating work!

Here's IDL's website http://www.idl.org.pe/