PERU: State to be questioned about failure to implement National Human Rights Plan

[LIMA, 10 July 2007] - In the upcoming session of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, taking place 16 - 28 July 2007, the Centro de Asesoría Laboral de Perú – CEDAL - an NGO working to strengthen civil society organisations, particularly in the field of workers’ rights - will question representatives of the Peruvian State about its resistance to implementing Peru’s National Human Rights Plan. The plan, which was approved by the Congress on 10 December 2005, includes a specific chapter on measures for implementing children and young people’s rights.

Human rights agencies in Peru see the implementation of the National Human Rights Plan as crucial for reversing the causes of structural violence that affected the country in the 1980s and 90s, during an internal armed conflict that left nearly 70,000 dead, 14,000 in prison or ‘disappeared’ and cost hundreds of thousands of dollars.

CEDAL hopes that the hearing will allow the State to explain the steps it plans to take to adopt the National Plan, which was drafted after a national consultation in which nearly 3,000 companies and civil society and State organisations participated.

Further information

• Read the National Human Rights Plan (2006 - 2010) (in Spanish)
• 128th session of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
• CRIN's information page on the Inter-American Commission
• CRIN's news page on the Inter-American Commission