Peru

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Overview

Since 2022, an OHCHR technical mission has been deployed to Peru, operating as part of the Office of the UN Resident Coordinator. The Mission works with State institutions, civil society organizations, regional and international organizations and the UN in order to strengthen their capacities in promoting and protecting all human rights. 

News & Statements

Latest news

26 Jun 2024

Treaty bodies

Peru: UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances alarmed by draft bill establishing a statute of limitations on crimes against humanity and war crimes

14 Jun 2024

Special Procedures

Peru: Draft bill establishing statute of limitations on atrocity crimes contravenes international standards, say UN experts

22 Mar 2024

Special Procedures

Peru: Turn policy into practice to uphold the rights of older persons, says UN expert

11 Mar 2024

Special Procedures

UN expert on human rights of older persons to visit Peru

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Latest statements & messages

09 Aug 2024

Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights

UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk regrets statute of limitations for war crimes, crimes against humanity in Peru

07 Mar 2023

Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights

Global update: High Commissioner outlines concerns in over 40 countries

10 Jan 2023

Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights

Comment by UN Human Rights Office spokesperson Marta Hurtado on Peru

16 Dec 2022

Treaty bodies

PERU: UN Committee urges guaranteeing children's right to expression and investigating violence that has led to the deaths and injuries of children during protests

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Featured Stories

MariaElenaCarbajal
26 June 2019 Fund for Victims of Torture

Forced sterilisations in Peru: one woman’s fight for justice and redress

In the late 1990s, some 300,000 Peruvian women were subjected to a programme of sterilisation, ordered by the government’s National Reproductive Health and Family Planning Programme. Maria Elena Carbajal Cepeda was one of these women. She now heads an organisation which is defending the rights of survivors.
AbortionPeru
18 January 2016 Coordination Committee of Special Procedures

Peru compensates woman in historic UN Human Rights abortion case

The Government of Peru has agreed to pay compensation to a woman who was denied access to legal abortion services, as part of the first UN Human Rights Committee ruling on an abortion case.
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UN and OHCHR Reports

UN Secretary-General and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights

Observations on the human rights situation in the context of the protests in Peru

OHCHR Report of the Mission to Peru: 17-22 November 2020

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Universal Periodic Review

Core documents for the current and previous cycles

The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) is a unique process which involves a review of the human rights records of all UN Member States. The UPR is a State-driven process, under the auspices of the Human Rights Council, which provides the opportunity for each State to declare what actions they have taken to improve the human rights situations in their countries and to fulfil their human rights obligations.

Special Procedures

Reports

A/HRC/54/32/ADD.2: Visit to Peru - Report of the Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation, Pedro Arrojo Agudo

A/HRC/46/35/Add.2: Visit to Peru - Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, Michel Forst

A/HRC/45/44/Add.2: Visit to Peru - Report of the Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent

A/HRC/42/40/Add.1: Follow-up on the visits of the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances to Peru and Sri Lanka - Report of the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances

A/HRC/38/48/Add.2: Report of the Working Group on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises on its mission to Peru

A/HRC/29/40/Add.2: Report of the Working Group on the issue of discrimination against women in law and in practice - Addendum Mission to Peru

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Special Procedures country visits

Treaty Bodies

Reports

CRPD/C/PER/CO/2-3: Concluding observations on the combined second and third periodic reports of Peru

CCPR/C/PER/CO/6: Concluding observations on the sixth periodic report of Peru

CEDAW/C/PER/CO/9: Concluding observations on the ninth periodic report of Peru

Committee on Enforced Disappearances - Concluding observations on the report submitted by Peru under article 29 (1) of the Convention

Concluding observations on the seventh periodic report of Peru

Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination: Concluding observations on the combined twenty-second and twenty-third periodic reports of Peru

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Status & Reporting

Status of Ratifications Reporting Status Standing invitation to Special Procedures Voluntary Pledges and Commitments

External Resources

Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Inter-American Court of Human Rights Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions

Note: OHCHR is not responsible for the content of external links.

Contact Information

Headquarters

Field Operations and Technical Cooperation Division (FOTCD)
Contact is in Geneva, Switzerland.

Americas Section
Tel. + 41 22 917 92 48

Field

OHCHR Presence in Peru
Av. Jorge Chavez 275, Miraflores
Lima, Peru
Email: ohchr-peru@un.org

Photo credit: Pamela Huber on Unsplash

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