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Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery In the early years of the 21st Century gvnet.com/humantrafficking/Peru.htm
Peru is a source, transit, and destination
country for men, women, and children trafficked for the purposes of forced
labor and commercial sexual exploitation. The majority of human trafficking
occurs within the country. The ILO and IOM estimate that more than 20,000
persons are trafficked into conditions of forced labor within Peru, mainly in
the mining and logging sectors, agriculture, and brick-making sectors, and as
domestic servants. Many trafficking victims are women and girls from
impoverished rural regions of the Amazon, recruited and coerced into
prostitution in urban nightclubs, bars, and brothels, often through false
employment offers or promises of education. Indigenous persons are
particularly vulnerable to being subjected to debt bondage by Amazon
landowners. Forced child labor remains a problem, particularly in informal
gold mines and coca production. - U.S.
State Dept Trafficking in Persons Report, June, 2009 [full country report] |
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links have been culled from the web to illuminate the situation in Peru. Some of these links may lead to websites
that present allegations that are unsubstantiated or even false. No attempt has been made to validate their
authenticity or to verify their content. ***
FEATURED ARTICLE *** Report: Associated Press AP, Lima, Peru, April 29,
2005 www.japanaddicted.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1333 [accessed 16 December 2010] "The ties
between He said a typical
trafficking scenario is that of Irene Oblitas, a
Peruvian who told her story last year to her country's media. She said that
in 1998 she boarded a plane with three Japanese businessmen who had promised
her a job in a plastics factory. When she arrived
she was raped by all three men and sold to a Yakuza organized crime boss, who
branded her across the chest with a 6-inch (15-centimeter) rose tattoo. He
forced her to provide sexual services to up to 40 clients a day, she said. ***
ARCHIVES *** IDB launches campaign against human
trafficking in Inter-American Development Bank News
Release, May 23, 2006 www.iadb.org/news/detail.cfm?language=English&ARTID=3088&id=3088 [accessed 16 December 2010] The Peruvian hotline,
0800-2-3232, is a free and
confidential service that provides information to victims of human
trafficking and channels complaints to the anti-trafficking arm of the
National Police. A similar project targeting only women in Perú in 2005 logged over 7,000 calls in 10 months and
resulted in 220 cases of charges related to human trafficking. 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] INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - There is internal trafficking of children for
commercial sexual exploitation and domestic service in CHILD
LABOR LAWS AND ENFORCEMENT - In 2004, new laws were enacted by the Government to
protect children from exploitation by adults, including trafficking in
persons and sexual exploitation. Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61738.htm [accessed 16 December 2010] 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. 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] [7] The Committee
welcomes the State party's accession to the Hague Convention on the
Protection of Children and Cooperation in Respect of Inter-country Adoption Peruvian Nanny Exploited In Shocking ICE
Case KTVU News, www.ktvu.com/news/18012707/detail.html [accessed 16 December 2010] Agent Welsh and ICE
officials won't speak specifically about Dann's
case, but the complaint alleges that in July 2006, Dann
brought Zoraida Pena-Canal from Dann allegedly
confiscated Pena's passport and visa and physically and verbally abused the
nanny, threatening her with deportation if she talked to outsiders. The complaint
alleges Dann smashed Pena's radio and a television
set, to prevent her from listening to Spanish language programs that would,
quote "put ideas in her head."
Investigators say Dann told Pena: "When
you come to the United States, you must suffer." "They may not be physically
restrained, but they're told, 'You're here illegally,'" says Special
Agent Walsh. "They may not speak the language, they're told 'If you
cause problems or try to get away, I'll report you to immigration and they'll
put you in jail.'" Investigators
say Dann even rationed Pena's food, weighing the
meat she purchased and hiding fruit from Pena. Neighbors say Pena often
appeared daily in the same clothes. Slavery in Lily Céspedes,
Latin American Press, May 05, 2008 traffickingproject.blogspot.com/2008/05/slavery-in-peru.html [accessed 16 December 2010] According to the
report on the trafficking of women for sex trade in Peru, produced in 2005 by
the International Organization for Migration (IOM) along with Movimiento El Pozo, eight of
every 10 cases identified in Peru are related to domestic trafficking. “There is a custom of turning over or
receiving children or youths whose parents can’t take care of them, who fall,
unfortunately, into the hands of human traffickers,” said Tammy Quintanilla
Zapata, director of Movimiento El Pozo. Report: Associated Press AP, www.japanaddicted.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1333 [accessed 16 December 2010] "The ties
between He said a typical
trafficking scenario is that of Irene Oblitas, a
Peruvian who told her story last year to her country's media. She said that
in 1998 she boarded a plane with three Japanese businessmen who had promised
her a job in a plastics factory. When she arrived
she was raped by all three men and sold to a Yakuza organized crime boss, who
branded her across the chest with a 6-inch (15-centimeter) rose tattoo. He
forced her to provide sexual services to up to 40 clients a day, she said. Putting children's right of the local
agenda - the experience of the Demuna model in Save the Children www.crin.org/resources/infoDetail.asp?ID=4047&flag=report [accessed 16 December 2010] A decade ago, Save
the Children Sweden in Annual Report Of Activities By The
Anti-Trafficking In Persons Section Of The Organization Of American States -
April 2005 To March 2006 [DOC] SIXTH MEETING OF MINISTERS OF JUSTICE OR OF
MINISTERS OR ATTORNEYS GENERAL OF THE AMERICAS, April 2005 to March 2006,
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, 13 April 2006 www.procuraduria.gov.do/PGR.NET/RemjaVI/Informes/Ingles.doc [accessed 16 December 2010] Freedom House Country Report - Political Rights: 2 Civil Liberties: 3 Status: Free 2009 Edition www.freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world/2009/peru [accessed 27 June 2012] Human Rights
Overview Human Rights Watch [accessed 16 December 2010] Library of Congress Call Number F3408
.P4646 1993 lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/petoc.html [accessed 16 December 2010] 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 10 September 2011] The NGO has
identified a child prostitution network in the jungle city of Save the Children
also denounced another gang that recruits minors and forces them to
prostitute themselves in residential neighborhood bars in Lima frequented by
mostly Asian sailors during their brief shore leaves from the neighboring
port of Callao. The investigation
detected similar criminal operations in the Andean cities of Cuzco, Puno and Abancay. One criminal outfit
offers tour "packages" to domestic and foreign tourists in Iquitos
that include the sexual favors of a minor, according to the report. Bureau of International Information
Programs, www.america.gov/st/washfile-english/2004/November/20041109125514cmretrop0.8842584.html [accessed 16 December 2010] The press release
says that the couple devised a scheme starting in 1999 to obtain phony visas
to get Peruvians into the All
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