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CHAPTER II: THE BUSINESS AND HUMAN RIGHTS SITUATION IN PERU For its part, the network of companies Asociación Perú 2021 aims to promote RBC using an approach that takes into account adverse impacts linked to both operations and business relationships (OECD, 2020b, p. 23). In addition, it awards the Distinctive Socially Responsible Company (DESR),17 which…

CHAPTER II: THE BUSINESS AND HUMAN RIGHTS SITUATION IN PERU A 2019 study prepared by Confiep (2019) with support from the ILO identified the good practices of the business sector in terms of human rights in Peru, based on information reported by 252 companies between 2016 and 2017. Regarding corporate commitments to human rights and…

The Peruvian NAP does not make an explicit reference to State owned enterprises/public private partnerships.

CHAPTER II: THE BUSINESS AND HUMAN RIGHTS SITUATION IN PERU According to figures from the Ministry of Production (2019), which takes as its source the Single Registry of Taxpayers of the National Superintendence of Customs and Tax Administration (Sunat), in 2019, micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) accounted for 99.6% of Peruvian companies and employed…

CHAPTER III DIAGNOSIS AND BASELINE: ACTION AREAS 3.2. Conclusions of the specific issues Private security Although there are no binding international instruments that support State obligations in the area of private security and human rights, a series of soft law standards have been identified: the Montreaux Document, the International Code of Conduct for Private Security…

PREFACE The NAP foresees a set of actions that includes specialized training for all sectors, taking into account the particularities of each one of them. (…) It also includes measures to strengthen the regulatory and supervisory capacity of the State, the social conflict prevention policy and the integrity and fight against corruption policy, to contribute…

The Peruvian NAP does not make an explicit reference to Privatisation.

CHAPTER I : PROCESS OF ELABORATING THE FIRST NATIONAL ACTION PLAN ON BUSINESS AND HUMAN RIGHTS 1.2. Methodology: Peer-to-peer dialogue as the basis of the NAP Management by results favors that the NAP complies with the requirement of mainstreaming the human rights approach and its complementary approaches (Minjusdh, 2019), which are the following: Disability perspective:…

CHAPTER I : PROCESS OF ELABORATING THE FIRST NATIONAL ACTION PLAN ON BUSINESS AND HUMAN RIGHTS In 2009, as part of its adherence to the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises, the government established a National Contact Point (NCP) for RBCs, located in Peru’s Private Investment Promotion Agency (Proinversión). Under the OECD Guidelines, the Peruvian NCP…

CHAPTER I : PROCESS OF ELABORATING THE FIRST NATIONAL ACTION PLAN ON BUSINESS AND HUMAN RIGHTS Under the OECD Guidelines, the Peruvian NCP is tasked with promoting the Guidelines and related Due Diligence Guidance and handling cases related to potential non-compliance with the Guidelines by a multinational enterprise, through a non-judicial process of mediation and…

The Peruvian NAP does not make an explicit reference to Non-financial reporting.

2017-2020 NATIONAL ACTION PLAN PREFACE There are a total of 97 actions with more than 150 indicators, distributed in five strategic guidelines and 13 objectives, involving 21 public entities of the Executive Power, with the support, according to their competences, of the Judicial Power, the Public Ministry, the Academy of the Magistracy, the Ombudsman’s Office,…

CHAPTER III DIAGNOSIS AND BASELINE: ACTION AREAS 3.2. Conclusions of the specific issues Foreign migrants Social integration processes require the adoption of structural measures such as identification, access to work, education, among others, in order to allow social mobility. Progress has been identified in the area of migratory regularization; thus, in 2020, a regularization measure…

CHAPTER III DIAGNOSIS AND BASELINE: ACTION AREAS 3.2. Conclusions of the specific issues Human rights defenders According to the MINJUSDH registry, situations of violation of the rights of human rights defenders are due to economic informality, the lack of legal security in the titling of communal lands, the resulting land trafficking, and criminality associated with…

CHAPTER III: DIAGNOSIS AND BASELINE: ACTION AREAS 3.1. General conclusions of the diagnosis and baseline Thirdly, with respect to judicial and extrajudicial reparation mechanisms, positive changes have also been evidenced at the regulatory level. Thus, the State has adopted administrative, civil, and criminal penalties for breaches of human rights legislation in the business context. In…

The Peruvian NAP does not make an explicit reference to Investment treaties and investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS).

CHAPTER I : PROCESS OF ELABORATING THE FIRST NATIONAL ACTION PLAN ON BUSINESS AND HUMAN RIGHTS 1.3. Stages of the elaboration process First stage: call for stakeholders It was developed from January to August 2019. It was characterized by the identification and rappro- chement of stakeholders from the State, companies, civil society, indigenous peoples, trade…

The Peruvian NAP does not make an explicit reference to Information and communications technology (ICT) and electronics sector.

The Peruvian NAP does not make an explicit reference to human rights impact assessments.

INTRODUCTION It is also noteworthy that Peru has taken significant steps to implement due diligence standards. In this regard, in 2018 it adhered to the OECD Council Recommendation on Due Diligence Guidance for a RBC, which adds to previous accessions to the Council Recommendations on Due Diligence Guidance for the mining sector in 2011 and…