Military expenditures - percent of GDP:
1.4% (2003 est.)
Transnational Issues Peru
Disputes - international:
Chile and Ecuador rejected Peru's November 2005 unilateral law to
shift the axis of their joint treaty-defined maritime boundary along
the parallel of latitude to an equidistance line which favors Peru;
organized illegal narcotics operations in Colombia have penetrated
Peru's shared border; Peru does not support Bolivia's claim to
restore maritime access through a sovereign corridor through Chile
along the Peruvian border
Refugees and internally displaced persons:
IDPs: 60,000 (civil war from 1980-2000; most IDPs are indigenous
peasants in Andean and Amazonian regions) (2005)
Trafficking in persons:
current situation: Peru is primarily a source country for women and
children trafficked internally for the purposes of sexual
exploitation and forced domestic labor; most victims are girls and
young women moved internally from rural to urban areas, or from city
to city, and lured or coerced into prostitution in nightclubs, bars,
and brothels; Peruvians have also been trafficked for sexual
exploitation to Spain, Japan, the United States, and Venezuela; the
government acknowledges that sex tourism occurs, particularly in the
Amazon region of the country
tier rating: Tier 2 Watch List - Peru is placed on the Tier 2 Watch
List for failure to show evidence of increasing efforts to eliminate
trafficking in 2005
Illicit drugs:
until 1996 the world's largest coca leaf producer; cultivation of
coca in Peru fell 15% to 31,150 hectares between 2002 and the end of
2003; much of the cocaine base is shipped to neighboring Colombia
for processing into cocaine, while finished cocaine is shipped out
from Pacific ports to the international drug market; increasing
amounts of base and finished cocaine, however, are being moved to
Brazil and Bolivia for use in the Southern Cone or transshipped to
Europe and Africa
This page was last updated on 19 December, 2006
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