The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, arrived in Lima on Monday to meet with high-ranking state officials Peruvian and representatives of civil society on an official visit that seeks to learn about the situation of fundamental freedoms in the country.
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As reported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs through its social networks, the UN representative held a meeting this morning with the Foreign Minister, César Landa, and with the Minister of Justice, Felix Chero, at the Torre Tagle Palace in the capital. , headquarters of the Chancellery.
The ministry pointed out that during this meeting “Peru’s commitment to the defense and promotion of human rights and the objectives of sustainable development was reaffirmed, for the benefit of the most vulnerable populations.”
“The High Commissioner thanked the Peruvian Government for the invitation to visit the country and highlighted Peru’s permanent policy of openness to special procedures, both within the framework of the Universal System and the Inter-American Human Rights System,” added the Ministry, after mention that Bachelet’s official visit “seeks to strengthen the capacities of the Peruvian State in the face of challenges and opportunities in the area of human rights.”
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Foreign Minister Landa and the Minister of Justice @FelixCheroM held fruitful meetings with @mbachelet where Peru’s commitment to the defense and promotion of human rights and the Sustainable Development Goals was reaffirmed, for the benefit of the most vulnerable populations. pic.twitter.com/Qlp9mlGZPp
— Peru Chancellery🇵🇪 (@CancilleriaPeru) July 18, 2022
During her stay in Peru, the former president of Chile plans to meet with other representatives of the Executive, Congress and the Judiciary, as well as civil society and native communities.
Before beginning her meetings with the State, Bachelet was received by the UN representative in the Andean country, Igor Garafulic, and the Country Team, who “provided valuable input on Peru’s human rights priorities related to the health, education, nutrition, shelter and migration, interculturality, freedom of the press, gender equality and the environment,” reported the United Nations delegation in Peru on Twitter.
As Efe learned, the UN High Commissioner also met this morning with representatives of the Peruvian Amazon at the headquarters of the International Labor Organization (ILO) in Lima.
At this meeting, where some twenty leaders of indigenous peoples were present, issues such as the situation of environmental leaders and the Amazonian indigenous populations affected by oil pollution were addressed.
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The visit seeks to strengthen the capacities of the Peruvian State in the face of challenges and opportunities in the field of human rights
“We have presented the pending commitments that the State has with us and it is not complying,” the apu (head) of the Quechua del Pastaza Indigenous Federation (Fediquep), Aurelio Chino, who arrived in the capital from the jungle region, told EFE. of Loretto.
Chino explained that his conversation with Bachelet focused fundamentally on the need for the State to implement an intercultural health plan to serve the communities affected by oil contamination and to comply with “the remediation of the 3,000 sites impacted” supposedly by the operations. of the company Pluspetrol and Frontera Energy.
“She said that she would pass all these concerns (to the authorities), but that she cannot say the answer,” the apu added.
For this afternoon, a group of women has called a protest action at the ILO headquarters in Lima, located in the district of San Isidro, where a performance called “The Maid’s Tales” will be held in order to “call the attention” of Bachelet on the situation of women in the Andean country.
The Peruvian Mission in Geneva reported that Bachelet plans to give a press conference in Lima at the end of her mission, on Wednesday, July 20.
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