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Laura Vargas
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Laura Vargas is a former nun and current socioenvironmental activist who is part of the Interfaith Rainforest Initiative (IRI). Born in the Peruvian Andes, she saw her native home polluted and desecrated by the giant La Oroya copper smelting plant. Vargas was the former executive secretary of the Peruvian bishops' social action commission (CEAS) and was a member of the Presidential Commission of the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights.
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