Human Trafficking in [Peru Street Children in [Peru] [other countries]Child Prostitution in [Peru] [other countries] |
Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery Republic of Peru [ Country-by-Country
Reports ] The Peru is
primarily a source country for women and children trafficked within the
country for the purpose of commercial sexual exploitation. Most victims are
girls and young women from the poorest and least developed regions of Peru,
recruited and coerced into prostitution in urban nightclubs, bars, and
brothels, often through false employment offers. Child labor remains a
serious problem in Peru. Children and adults are also trafficked into
conditions of forced labor in Peru’s mining, logging, agriculture, fishing,
and brick-making sectors, and as domestic servants. Traffickers typically use
fraud and coercion to recruit victims through false job offers. Peruvians are
trafficked to Ecuador, Spain, Japan, Italy, and the United States for sexual
exploitation. The government acknowledges child sex tourism exists,
particularly in the Amazon region of the country. - U.S. State Dept
Trafficking in Persons Report, June, 2008
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FEATURED ARTICLE *** 4,000 Colombianas? That's sickening - Report: Japan Sex Industry Ensnares Latin Women "The ties between Japan and
Peru are larger for historical reasons, for migratory reasons, for all kinds
of reasons, than they are between Colombia and Japan. And it's our position
right now in the preliminary study that there are many more victims here,"
he told The Associated Press. 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 4,000 Colombianas? That's sickening - Report: Japan Sex Industry Ensnares Latin Women "The ties between Japan and
Peru are larger for historical reasons, for migratory reasons, for all kinds
of reasons, than they are between Colombia and Japan. And it's our position
right now in the preliminary study that there are many more victims
here," he told The Associated Press. 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 Peru The NGO has identified a child
prostitution network in the jungle city of Iquitos
that smuggles their victims to the Peruvian capital and the northern city of Chiclayo to be sexually exploited. 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
confiscating their wages. All material used herein
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