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Viewing cable 06LIMA4712, PERU: UPDATE TO GSP WORST FORMS OF CHILD LABOR

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Reference ID Created Released Classification Origin
06LIMA4712 2006-12-18 19:08 2011-08-25 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED Embassy Lima
VZCZCXYZ0010
RR RUEHWEB

DE RUEHPE #4712/01 3521908
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
R 181908Z DEC 06
FM AMEMBASSY LIMA
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC 3394
INFO RUEHBO/AMEMBASSY BOGOTA 4184
RUEHBR/AMEMBASSY BRASILIA 7128
RUEHCV/AMEMBASSY CARACAS 0009
RUEHGT/AMEMBASSY GUATEMALA 0992
RUEHLP/AMEMBASSY LA PAZ DEC QUITO 0885
RUEHSG/AMEMBASSY SANTIAGO 1000
RUEHC/DEPT OF LABOR WASHINGTON DC
RHMFIUU/CDR USSOUTHCOM MIAMI FL
RUEAIIA/CIA WASHDC
UNCLAS LIMA 004712 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SIPDIS 
 
STATE PASS TO USDOL FOR TINA MCCARTER 
DEPARTMENT FOR DRL/ILL LAUREN HOLT 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: ELAB EIND ETRD SOCI PGOV PHUM PE
SUBJECT: PERU: UPDATE TO GSP WORST FORMS OF CHILD LABOR 
 
REF: A. A) 05 LIMA 3714 
     B. B) STATE 184972 
 
1.  Post submits the following additional information to last 
year's update of the 2004 Worst Forms of Child Labor Report. 
Responses are keyed to items in Ref A. 
 
A)  Formal institutional mechanisms to investigate and 
address complaints relating to allegations of the worst forms 
of child labor. 
 
2.  The Government of Peru (GOP) employs 236 labor 
inspectors, with 150 working in Lima.  The Ministry of Labor 
(MOL) has announced plans to add 200 inspectors in 2007. 
According to the MOL, inspectors carried out 33,874 visits in 
2005.  Inspectors investigated all types of labor violations, 
including those related to child labor.  In total, the MOL's 
inspection force levied approximately 4,500 fines in 2005, 
for a total of USD 11 million. 
 
3.  In 2005, the MOL's Office of Labor Protection for Minors 
(PMT) issued 1,326 permits authorizing children to work; 
1,086 were issued to adolescents between 16 and 17 years old. 
 Parents or legal guardians must apply for a permit, and 
employers cannot hire a minor without one.  Each permit 
requires an on-site inspection to ensure compliance with 
Peruvian labor law.  The PMT is completing visits to sites 
issued permits in 2005. 
 
4. In 2005, the Office of the Ombudsman for Children and 
Adolescents (DEMUNA) completed work on a decentralized child 
labor reporting and tracking system to comply with Peru's 
signing of the Palermo Protocol. 
 
5.  The MOL's labor inspectors focus on the formal sector, 
even though more than half of Peru's working population is 
employed in the informal sector.  In order to cover the 
informal sector, the MOL, along with the DEMUNA, the ministry 
of Women and Development (MIMDES), and the Center of Social 
Studies and Publications (CESIP, a Peruvian NGO) has created 
labor advocacy offices in all of Peru's 1,800 municipalities. 
 Thirty percent of these offices receive funding directly 
from local governments; the rest rely primarily on volunteer 
staffs.  DEMUNA is responsible for raising awareness about 
child labor and for reporting major violations.  Although 
most municipalities lack the financial resources to support 
local DEMUNA offices, the MOL plans over the next five years 
to give the offices the authority and capacity to issue work 
permits, investigate infractions, and impose and collect 
fines within their respective jurisdictions. 
 
B)  Existing social programs to prevent and to assist in the 
removal of children engaged in the worst forms of child labor. 
 
6.  In 2004 the GOP created the Inter-Institutional Network 
of Local Execution (RIEL), a locally staffed committee that 
reports on child labor conditions in Puno, where 
approximately 240,000 children are engaged in the mining and 
artisanal industries. 
 
7.  On November 1, 2006 the Department of Labor began, with 
the cooperation of the GOP, a five-year, $5 million project 
to reduce child labor in Lima, Callao, Trujillo, and Iquitos. 
 The program helps at-risk children between the ages of 11 
and 15 years old to stay in school and assists children who 
are already working to return to school.  More than 5,000 
children are expected to benefit from the program.  The 
Department of Labor is also working with the GOP to implement 
a national child labor survey to document the incidence and 
nature of child labor nationally.  The project is expected to 
begin in the first quarter of 2007. 
 
8.  In September 2006, the DOL-funded program, EDuFuro, 
ended.  The program brought mobile education centers to 3,000 
youth working in mines in the region of Puno and taught basic 
reading, writing and math.  The program succeeded in 
persuading many of the children participating to continue 
their education in permanent schools. 
 
9.  The GOP has defined brick-making as a sector relying on 
child labor.  In 2006, MIMDES and CESIP promoted joint 
development programs in Guachipa, a municipality near Lima, 
where thousands of children were engaged in brick-making. 
MIMDES and CESIP have helped community leaders organize 
worker associations and pressure local governments to extend 
basic services.  CESIP also has secured private sector money 
from companies to fund the construction and improvement of 
four Guachipa elementary schools.  As a result, several 
hundred children attend school instead of working. 
 
10.  In 2005, MIMDES coordinated the production of a video 
designed to warn tourists and business travelers about the 
legal sanctions against sexual exploitation of children.  The 
video aired on all LAN Peru flights between Lima and Iquitos 
in November 2005.  MIMDES also conducted a four-month long 
training session for Iquitos police officers that trained 600 
policemen in identifying and investigating cases involving 
the sexual exploitation of children. 
 
11. In 2006, the MOL signed a contract with CESIP to provide 
legal assistance and information to domestic workers about 
their labor rights under the law. 
 
C)  Comprehensive polices for the elimination of the worst 
forms of child labor. 
 
12.  In mid-2005, the MOL completed the National Action Plan 
for Child Labor, which formalized a Supreme Decree issued on 
September 30, 2005.  In June 2006, a third revision of the 
plan was released to the public.  The plan contains reports 
on progress achieved in combating child labor and details 
objectives in meeting the overall goal of eradicating child 
labor. 
 
D)  Whether the country is making continual progress toward 
eliminating the worst forms of child labor. 
 
13.  The strong commitment expressed by the current 
government to eradicate child labor suggests progress will 
continue.  According to the MOL, the rate of children 
entering the workforce has slowed: from 1996 to 2001, the 
percentage of children holding jobs increased by 13 per cent. 
 From 2001 to 2006, the increase was 3 per cent. 
 
14.  The MOL's budget for 2006 is approximately USD 70 
million, a 5.5 million decrease since 2005.  In 2005, 
approximately USD 35 million of the total budget was 
earmarked for implementation of the National Action Plan for 
Child Labor.  In 2006, the portion of funds for PNAIA grew to 
about USD 5.9 million, evidence of how seriously the GOB 
takes the child labor problem. 
STRUBLE