UNWGEID Mission to Peru

I. Introduction

II Context of violence

III. Legal and institutional framework

IV. Reports on disappearances received from non-governmental sources and steps taken by the relatives of missing persons before the authorities

V. Position of the Government and information provided by official sources

VI. Human rights organizations, relatives and their associations and other sources of reports on enforced or involuntary disappearances and the role of the press

VII. Economic and social consequences

VIII. Concluding observations.