Human trafficking brings $1.3 billion a year to Peru.
- March 9, 2023
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According to a report prepared by CHS Alternativo, human trafficking generates more than $1,300 million a year in Peru. and made public this Thursday, making it the third
According to a report prepared by CHS Alternativo, human trafficking generates more than $1,300 million a year in Peru. and made public this Thursday, making it the third most moneyed crime after drug trafficking and arms trafficking.
“Trafficking in human beings is one of the worst forms of human exploitation as it entails a very serious impact on human rights such as the right to dignity and fundamental freedoms,” Ombudsman Eliana Revollar said in the presentation of the study. titled “Criminal Economy and Their Influence in Peru”.
The report concludes that exploiters receive about $700 million annually for sexual exploitation activities. and another 600 million for labor exploitation activities.
The Ombudsman’s Office and CHS renewed this Wednesday their framework agreement of inter-agency cooperation, an alliance to counter the new dynamics of human trafficking in the Andean country.
For his part, CHS Alternativo chief executive Ricardo Valdes stressed that they are working with data from the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Ministry of Health, but that, nevertheless, “the figures of both departments are fundamentally different each other”.
“Although the executive power promised to resolve this issue five years ago, the promise has not yet been fulfilled,” he stressed.
And pointed out that this ignorance is exacerbated by the lack of information about the impact of this crime on migrants.
“The reality is that criminal groups are getting stronger and innovating in the face of what the state is doing to fight crime. The calculations we present are conservative, which suggests that the reality is much higher. If we add to this the lack of accurate information about the real state of human trafficking in Peru, then how to deal with crime? How are the victims protected? How can we ensure that they do not return to the circle of exploitation they left?” asks Valdez.
Another conclusion of the study is that authorities are not investing enough in reversing this situation.
According to CHS reports, the state allocates sol 0.12 ($0.03) per person for crime prevention and prosecution, as well as victim protection and funding for the National Action Plan to Combat Trafficking in Persons.
Revollar argued that “coordination mechanisms and timely action by justice operators need to be strengthened to prevent, prosecute and punish crime in the digital environment, ensuring that the best interests of the child are respected in every action.”
The study also highlights traffickers’ innovation in recruitment methods as they now use social media and use the digital space to commit crime.
In this regard, the investigation shows that more than 100,000 downloads of child pornography were exceeded in the first six months of the pandemic.
The Ombudsman recalled that women continue to be the population most affected by this crime, according to the National Institute of Statistics and Informatics (INEI), during 2019, 86.8% of the total number of applications were women.
(EFE)
Source: Aristegui Noticias
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