Peru Support Group

The Peru Support Group (PSG) is a non-profit, non-partisan advocacy organisation in the United Kingdom established in 1983 to support the people of Peru.¹² During the crisis of the 1980s, PSG helped to renegotiate Peruvian foreign debt in an effort to channel funds to poverty relief.² In the 1990s, it campaigned to raise awareness of human rights violations in Peru during the presidency of Alberto Fujimori.²

One of the founders of the Peru Support Group was economist Rosemary Thorp.³ As of 2026, Lord John Alderdice, a Liberal Democrat in the House of Lords, is president of PSG.² The chair of the elected steering committee is John Crabtree of the Oxford University Latin American Centre.² Other notable sponsors of the organisation have included renowned British writers Harold Pinter and Graham Greene.⁴

The organisation today campaigns on a wide range of issues including: human rights and democratic governance and sustainable development, particularly with reference to extractive industries.² In 2006, PSG formed an independent delegation to visit the Department of Piura in Peru to monitor and report on the conflict surrounding the Rio Blanco Project.⁵ PSG holds an annual conference in the UK.⁶⁷

• Bebbington, A.J, M. Connarty, W. Coxshall, H. O'Shaugnessy, M. Williams. 2007. Mining and development in Peru, with special reference to the Rio Blanco Project, Piura. London. Peru Support Group. Translated and published in Peru as: Bebbington, A.J, M. Connarty, W. Coxshall, H.O'Shaugnessy, M. Williams. Minería y Desarrollo en Perú con especial referencia al Proyecto Río Blanco, Piura. Lima. Instituto de Estudios Peruanos/CIPCA/Oxfam International/Peru Support Group.
• Low, P. 2012.Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining in Peru: A Blessing or a Curse? Archived 11 February 2013 at the Wayback Machine. London. Peru Support Group.