Pathfinder country

Peru

SDG indicator 8.7.1 Proportion of children engaged in economic activity
With household chores - age 5-17 (2020) Without household chores - age 5-17 (2015)
Total 8.35 % 14.5 %
Female 7.53 % 14.7 %
Male 9.15 % 14.3 %
SDG indicator 5.3.1 Proportion of women aged 20 - 24 years who were married or in a union before age 15 and before age 18
2.00%
Before age 15 (2020)
14.10%
Before age 18 (2020)
Latest ratifications - View all
C182
10 Jan 2002
Ratified
C138
13 Nov 2002
Ratified
P029
18 Jun 2021
Ratified
SDG indicator 16.2.2 Number of victims of human trafficking per 100,000 population
0.57
2007
0.73
2008
0.68
2009
0.87
2010
0.97
2011
2.4
2012
2.11
2013
0.84
2014
1.34
2015
2.26
2016
1.71
2017
2.93
2018
3.21
2019
1.92
2020
2021
SDG indicator 16.2.2 Number of victims of human trafficking for forced labour, servitude and slavery, per 100,000 population
2007
0.03
2008
0.08
2009
2010
2011
0.16
2012
2013
0.14
2014
0.24
2015
0.67
2016
0.23
2017
0.24
2018
0.1
2019
0.05
2020
2021
Source: ILO Normlex

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Priorities

  • Promote the signature of an inter-institutional collaboration agreement with the National Association of Municipalities of Peru (AMPE) and the National Assembly of Regional Governments to implement the Municipal Intervention Model against child labour at the national level 2020-2021.
  • Strengthen the social dialogue and institutionality of the Regional Directing Committees for the Prevention and Eradication of Child Labor (CDRPETI) during 2020.
  • Implement and link the Child Labor Risk Identification Model – MIRTI to the MIDISTRITO platform of the Ministry of Development and Social Inclusion, for better decision-making in public policy in relation to the prevention and eradication of child labor at the level of local governments (2020).
  • Promote supply chains free of child labor in sectors with high incidence and / or at greater risk of child labor (2019-2021).

Progress

Success of Peru as a Pathfinder Country

  • Launch of the Recognition “Seal Free of Child Labor” –SELTI, distinctive granted to legal persons (companies, associations, cooperatives) for the promotion of supply chains free of child labour in sectors with high incidence and / or risk of child labour
  • Inter-institutional Cooperation Agreement between the Ministry of Labour and Employment Promotion and National Institute of Statistics and Information Technology, which aims at carrying out the collection and processing of information on the prevalence of forced labour in the Cusco region
  • Ratification of Protocol of 2014 to the Forced Labour Convention, 1930
  • Approval of the Annual Operational Plan for the implementation of the III National Plan to Combat Forced Labour 2019 – 2022.

Strengthening the legal framework

  • While Peru as pathfinder country has committed to a number of priorities to tackle child labour and forced labour, additional efforts have been directed towards strengthening the legal framework and national policies against human trafficking. For example:
    • Decentralization of public policies on trafficking
    • Implementation of the National Plan against Human Trafficking 2017-2021
    • Implementation of 23 regional plans against human trafficking in line with the National Plan on Human Trafficking
    • International agreements with Chile, Ecuador, Colombia and Argentina
    • Approval of the Project of Labour Reintegration of Victims of Forced Labor and/or Human Trafficking for Labour and Sexual Exploitation by the Board of Directors of FONDOEMPLEO

Success in the area of Child Labour

Capacity building for the Regional Steering Committee for the Prevention and Eradication of Child Labour (Comité Directivo Regional para la Prevencion y la Erradicación del Trabajo Infantil – CDRPETI) by updating CDRPETI’s situational diagnosis and providing technical assistance on the development and monitoring of work plans for the prevention and eradication of child labour.

The Municipal Model for the Detection and Eradication of Child Labour was designed, based on the experiences obtained by four (4) municipalities of the country, which have implemented, as pilot tests, a municipal management model that identifies and refers cases of child labour to competent entities for their comprehensive care.

Classification of the national territory according to the probability of occurrence of child labour, through the application of the Child Labour Risk Identification Model, which implies the initiation of prioritized, concrete actions in the districts with the highest probability of occurrence of child labour.

Success in the area of Forced Labor

Ratification of the “Protocol of 2014 to the Forced Labor Convention, 1930”, through Supreme Decree No. 015-2021-RE, published in the Official Gazette El Peruano on April 21, 2021.

 

International Instruments

Area Ilo Instrument Status Ratification date CEACR comments
Child Labour
C138
Ratification of C138 - Minimum Age Convention (1973)
In Force 13 Nov 2002
Child Labour, Forced Labour, Human Trafficking, Modern Slavery
C182
Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention (1999)
In Force 10 Jan 2002
Child Labour, Modern Slavery
C029
Forced Labour Convention (1930)
In Force 01 Feb 1960
Forced Labour, Human Trafficking, Modern Slavery
P029
Protocol of 2014 to the Forced Labour Convention (1930)
In Force 18 Jun 2021
Forced Labour, Modern Slavery
C105
Abolition of Forced Labour Convention (1957)
In Force 06 Dec 1960
Freedom of Association
C087
Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention (1948)
In Force 02 Mar 1960
Freedom of Association
C098
Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention (1949)
In Force 13 Mar 1964
Discrimination
C100
Equal Remuneration Convention (1951)
In Force 01 Feb 1960
Discrimination
C111
Discrimination (Employment and Occupation) Convention (1958)
In Force 10 Aug 1970

Milestones

2019

Supreme Decree No. 015-2019-TR approved the creation of the III National Plan to Combat Forced Labour.

2017

Legislative Decree No. 1323, dated January 6, which typifies the crime of forced labor in article 168-B of the Penal Code.

2012

National Strategy for the Prevention and Eradication of Child Labor 2012-2021.

2011

National Plan of Action against Human Trafficking 2011-2016

2007

Supreme Decree No. 009-2007-TR approved the creation of the i National Plan to Combat Forced Labour.

2002

Ratification of Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention, 1999 (No. 182).

RESOURCES
Peru
Perú Informe de progreso anual de País Pionero Mayo 2021-Abril 2022