Topic: 2024-Human Trafficking
Country: Peru
Delegate Name: Izzy Sheppard
Delegate Name: Izzy Sheppard
Position: Republic of Peru
Committee:
School: Williamston High School
Topic: Human Trafficking
Human Trafficking is a crime that can take a variety of forms in a variety of places, however, one common goal of all Human Traffickers is the cruel exploitation of the persons they are trafficking. This exploitation can again take the form of sexual exploitation, domestic servitude, and even forced marriages. According to recent estimates, every day there are approximately 27.6 million victims of trafficking globally. The UN has taken many steps to address this terrible crime through programs and plans to avert, dismantle, and carry out discipline for traffickers. The largest example of these actions is Annex II of the UN’s United Nations Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime and the Protocols Thereto. This Annex defines and outlines a nation’s steps to approaching the removal of human trafficking and was proposed by the UN in 2000. It seeks to aid member countries with establishing anti-trafficking laws and sets requirements for participating countries to meet regarding their laws and regulations. The UN has also set up programs to bring more awareness and incite more action against human trafficking such as the World Day Against Trafficking in Persons, which brings attention to human trafficking, and highlights major issues that need to be addressed by member nations of the UN.
The Republic of Peru has taken many steps to combat this horrible crime. Peru, for illegal trafficking rings, serves as a major hub for transporting, luring, and capturing people into a trafficking ring. While in the past, Peru has taken minimal steps to combat this crime, recent legislation and actions by the government have proven a commitment to tackling human trafficking. In 2000, Peru adopted the United Nations Protocol to counter Human Trafficking. More recently, in 2023, the Peruvian government opened and investigated 1,275 different human trafficking cases, a much larger number compared to past years, showing a growth in Peru’s prosecution of human traffickers. Peru’s laws regarding the trafficking of human beings are broad and thus allow for more prosecution, and prison sentences range from 8-15 years of imprisonment for adult victims, 12-20 years for those imprisoning people between the ages of 14-18, and a minimum of 25 years for those trafficking people under 14. Additionally, the government has made more efforts to prevent the trafficking of persons, by creating 25 coordination bodies to monitor, spread awareness of human trafficking, and give more access to resources for reporting and escaping human trafficking to their respective areas.
In the future, the Republic of Peru would like to pursue more options to counter human trafficking. One such solution could be to further promote plans to expand access to authorities and bring awareness to human trafficking abroad. To achieve this, Peru would like to see the encouragement of nations to develop and establish outreach programs, and a network between nations to share and have more transparency regarding major human trafficking rings that function in and between nations. Furthermore, Peru would support a suggestion of the establishment of an international group, that all nations could affiliate with, that would monitor human trafficking, a nation dedicated to the mission, and guide member nations requesting aid in the fight against the trafficking of human beings.
