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Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery In the
first ten years of the 21st Century -
2000 to 2009
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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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: Japan Sex Industry Ensnares Latin Women "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 Peru Hotline 0800-2-3232 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. U.S. Dept
of Labor Bureau of International Labor Affairs 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. Bur of Democracy,
Human Rights & Labor - Country
Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2005 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) - 2000 [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 www.ktvu.com/news/18012707/detail.html
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. 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: Japan Sex Industry Ensnares Latin Women "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. The
Experience Of The Demuna Model In Peru A decade ago, Save the Children
Sweden in PERU - During January 2006, the OAS/CIM and the
Peruvian Ministry of Foreign Affairs jointly sponsored a training seminar on
trafficking in persons held in the city of Lima. Experts from Freedom
House Country Report - Political Rights: 2 Civil Liberties: 3 Status: Free Human Rights Overview by Human
Rights Watch – Defending Human Rights Worldwide U.S. Library of Congress
- Country Study Four Child Prostitution Rings Identified In www.ecpat.net/eng/Ecpat_inter/IRC/newsdesk_articles.asp?SCID=1249 At one time this article had been
archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] 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. New York Couple Pleads Guilty to Alien Smuggling Charges The press release says that the
couple devised a scheme starting in 1999 to obtain phony visas to get
Peruvians into the United States illegally. They charged the would-be
immigrants a hefty sum for the trip. Then the couple threatened to turn their
victims over to authorities, keeping them in forced labor situations and
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