Promoting Human Rights in Peru with a Focus on Women, Indigenous Peoples, and Migrants

Peru’s human rights situation has deteriorated amidst the country’s deepening socio-political crisis. USAID financial support enables the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UN Human Rights) to address urgent human rights challenges and advance Peru’s long-term strategies to promote security, justice, and fairness.

HOW DOES THE ACTIVITY WORK?

USAID’s contribution enables UN Human Rights to deploy teams throughout the country to improve
human rights monitoring, provide technical assistance to government institutions, and respond to crises.
In this context, the objectives of this activity are:

1. Improve and protect civic space and human rights defenders in the context of climate change.
2. Strengthen the rule of law and accountability for human rights violations.
3. Enhance equality and the fight against discrimination, with special attention to women indigenous peoples, and migrants.

EXPECTED RESULTS

1. Human rights defenders enhance their capacities to protect civic space, focusing on security, civil rights, combating impunity, and the criminalization of their work.
2. State institutions strengthen their capabilities to ensure a safe and conducive environment for the protection of human rights, with a focus on defenders and journalists.
3. Governmental and private sector actors enhance their knowledge by integrating human rights standards into natural resource exploration projects that impact communities.
4. Justice institutions strengthen the application of international human rights standards in trials for human rights violations and victim reparations, incorporating a gender perspective.
5. State institutions adopt policies in prevention and security in line with international human rights standards, with special attention to indigenous populations, women, migrants, and other marginalized groups.
6. Early warning mechanisms are reinforced to prevent social conflicts, and the implementation of reached agreements is promoted.
7. Institutions and stakeholders working on migrant issues increase their capacity to integrate a human rights-based approach into their laws, policies, and plans.
8. Institutions and stakeholders working on indigenous issues increase their capacity to integrate a human rights-based approach into their laws, policies, and plans.
9. Institutions and stakeholders working on women's and LGBTI issues increase their capacities to integrate a gender-based approach into their laws, policies, and plans.