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for Teachers attached to this website. HELP for Victims Ministry of Interior ***
FEATURED ARTICLE *** Four Child
Prostitution Rings Identified In EFE News Service, 16
March 2004 At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 17
September 2011] Save the Children
has identified a child prostitution network in the jungle city of ***
ARCHIVES *** ECPAT Country
Monitoring Report [PDF] ECPAT International,
2014 www.ecpat.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/CMR_PERU_FINAL.pdf [accessed 6
September 2020] [SPANISH] Desk review of
existing information on the sexual exploitation of children (SEC) in Peru.
The report looks at protection mechanisms, responses, preventive measures,
child and youth participation in fighting SEC, and makes recommendations for
action against SEC. Human
Rights Reports » 2019 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices U.S. Dept of State Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and
Labor, March 10, 2020 www.state.gov/reports/2019-country-reports-on-human-rights-practices/peru/ [accessed 6
September 2020] SEXUAL
EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN - The law prohibits child pornography and stipulates a
penalty of four to 12 years’ imprisonment and a fine. The law prohibits child
sex trafficking, with a minimum penalty of 12 years in prison. Government
officials, police, NGOs, civil society leaders, and journalists identified
numerous cases of child sex trafficking during the year. The country remained
a destination for child sex tourism. While the country
has strong laws to protect children, it frequently had serious problems with
enforcement. Media reported on the sex trafficking of minor girls in the
illicit gold mining sites of the remote Amazonian Madre de Dios region. In
2018 a local NGO estimated there were approximately 400 brothels in the Madre
de Dios mining region, with hundreds of minor girls living in debt bondage
and subjected to sex trafficking. In February the PNP and the armed forces
launched an enforcement campaign in Madre de Dios to eliminate illegal gold
mining and its related crimes, including human trafficking. The minimum age for
consensual sex is 14. A conviction for rape of a child younger than 14
carries penalties ranging from 25 years to life in prison. The law also
prohibits adults from using deceit, abuse of power, or taking advantage of a
child in a vulnerable situation to have sex with a person younger than 18. 2018 Findings on
the Worst Forms of Child Labor Office of Child
Labor, Forced Labor, and Human Trafficking, Bureau of International Labor
Affairs, US Dept of Labor, 2019 www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/ILAB/child_labor_reports/tda2018/ChildLaborReportBook.pdf [accessed 6
September 2020] Note:: Also check out this country’s report in the more recent edition DOL
Worst Forms of Child Labor [page 959] Reports indicate
that existing social programs are not sufficient to fully address the problem
of child labor in Peru, including the large number of children who perform
dangerous tasks in agriculture. Peru also lacks targeted programs to assist
children who are subjected to commercial sexual exploitation and children who
work in mining, logging, and domestic work. (6,19,20) Child Labor in Peru www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/Advancing1/html/peru.htm [accessed 5 July
2011] 1.
CHILD LABOR IN Concluding
Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the
Rights of the Child, 28 January 2000 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/peru2000.html [accessed 16
December 2010] [27] With regard to
the sexual exploitation of children, while noting with appreciation the reforms
to the State party's Children and Adolescents Code, Penal Code and Penal
Procedures Code, as well as other measures in this area, the Committee
remains concerned at the absence of a national plan of action to combat and
prevent sexual exploitation of children. The limited awareness among the
population on sexual exploitation and abuse and on the available measures to
identify and report cases of abuse is also a matter of concern. In Peruvian jungle
city, church works to help child prostitutes Barbara J. Fraser,
Catholic News Service CNS, www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0602361.htm [accessed 5 July
2011] With its scenic
location -- surrounded by rain forest at the confluence of several rivers that
flow into the mighty Amazon -- Five Years After ECPAT: Fifth Report
on implementation of the Agenda for Action ECPAT International,
November 2001 www.no-trafficking.org/content/web/05reading_rooms/five_years_after_stockholm.pdf [accessed 13
September 2011] [B]
COUNTRY UPDATES – Report
by Special Rapporteur [DOC] UN Economic and
Social Council Commission on Human Rights, Fifty-ninth session, 6 January
2003 www.unhchr.ch/Huridocda/Huridoca.nsf/0/217511d4440fc9d6c1256cda003c3a00/$FILE/G0310090.doc [accessed 5 July
2011] [60] ***
EARLIER EDITIONS OF SOME OF THE ABOVE *** The Department of
Labor’s 2004 Findings on the Worst Forms of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/peru.htm [accessed 16
December 2010] Note:: Also check out this country’s report in the more recent edition DOL
Worst Forms of Child Labor INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR – Many children, most of whom are girls, move from
rural areas to urban areas where they live with families and perform domestic
work. In 2003, there were reports of children serving in the army in the
Department of Loreto. Boys and girls are also victims of commercial sexual
exploitation. There is internal trafficking of children for commercial sexual
exploitation and domestic service in Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices U.S. Dept of State Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and
Labor, March 8, 2006 2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61738.htm [accessed 10
February 2020] TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS
- Internal trafficking was a far greater problem. NGOs and international organizations
maintained that significant domestic trafficking occurred, particularly to
bring underage women from the Amazon district or the sierras into the cities
or into mining areas to work as prostitutes or to work in homes as domestics.
This trafficking took place through informal networks that could involve
boyfriends and even the families of the young women victims. The government
coordinated its anti-trafficking activities with NGOs. A Catholic order of
nuns, the Sisters of Adoration, operated 3 programs for underage female
prostitutes, a live-in center for approximately 75 girls (and 20 children of
the victims) in SECTION 6 WORKER
RIGHTS – [d]
Although there were no reliable statistics on its extent, NGOs and other
observers maintained that the country suffered a serious problem with
adolescent prostitution, as demonstrated by police raids on clandestine
brothels. All
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