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Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery In the
early years of the 21st Century - 2000 to 2010 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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CAUTION: The following 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/template.cfm?page=22&year=2009&country=7683 [accessed 16 December 2010] 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
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