Prostitution in Peru
Prostitution in Peru is legal and
Adult prostitution
Prostitution between adults is legal for women and men over 18 years of age if they register with municipal authorities and carry a health certificate.
Child prostitution
While poverty and inequality are important causes of child prostitution, part of the problem is also a social attitude that views sex—including paid sex—between adult men and adolescent girls as normal. Luis Gonzalez-Polar Zuzunada, president of La Restinga (an Iquitos-based nonprofit organization that works with at-risk children) said about teenage prostitution:"It's not seen as a crime. People think that's the way it is. Here, anyone is a potential client."[12]
The Peruvian government recognizes
Sex trafficking
Peru is a source, transit point, and destination for trafficked persons. The majority of human trafficking occurs within the country.
Many trafficking victims are women and girls from impoverished rural regions of the Amazon, recruited and coerced into prostitution in urban nightclubs, bars, and brothels, often through false employment offers or promises of education.[6]
Domestic trafficking occurs particularly in districts located in the
The principal victims and groups at high risk for trafficking are children and young women from rural or poor urban areas, persons living in poverty, persons with disabilities, victims of domestic abuse, illiterate persons, and persons lacking birth certificates or other identification documents.
Peru also is a destination country for some
The United States Department of State Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons ranks Peru as a 'Tier 2' country.[14]
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- ^ International, Alfonso Daniels Emergency Media Manager for Save the Children (14 November 2011). "Child Prostitution Booming in Peruvian Amazon". HuffPost. Retrieved 9 January 2017.
- ^ "La Republica: Exposé on child prostitution in Peruvian Amazon mining towns". Peruvian Times. 10 August 2008. Retrieved 2009-11-16.
- ^ "In Peruvian jungle city, church works to help child prostitutes". Catholic News Service. Archived from the original on 2010-09-07. Retrieved 2009-11-16.
- ^ a b "Human Trafficking" (PDF). US Department of State. Retrieved 2009-11-16.
- ^ "Peru2018 Trafficking in Persons Report". U.S. Department of State. Archived from the original on 30 July 2018. Retrieved 30 July 2018.