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Efforts to Combat Human Trafficking in Latin America

Inter-American Center against Disappearances, Exploitation and Trafficking (CIDETT). A new NGO (located in Peru and soon in Costa Rica) has the objective to work in all Latin-American region because the problems of sexual exploitation and trafficking of human beings are global and need to have strong, decided and global solutions.

Our region of Latin America does not have an organization that promotes and coordinates initiatives in this field. CIDETT is already supported by Save the Children Sweden, of the American Bar Association, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children in the US, and the Organisation of American States (OAS).

They are already implementing a successful project: the Latin American network, which is a public database with information of missing people (children and adults). This data base is managed and fed by the police of each country with the information provided by the person who did the report. The families and organization can consult it and it has become a useful tool to find disappeared people and to save them from networks of traffic and exploitation. CIDETT has implemented this data base in 7 countries: Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Chile, Costa Rica, Guatemala and Nicaragua. In 2006 we are going to implement Puerto Rico, Brasil, Belice and Dominican Republic. Until now the system has 20,000 monthly views and has registered more than 11,000 cases of disappearances. We have more projects, all of them related with the use of technology, the promotion and defence of human rights and oriented to Central and South America, especially the poorest countries.

The main site is www.latinoamericanosdesaparecidos.org and a user can access to the information of each country.

For more information, contact:

Ximena Sierralta

Centro Interamericano contra la Desaparición, Explotación, Trata y Tráfico

Directora Ejecutiva

Tudela Y Varela 138 dpto. 202 - San Isidro

Lima - Peru

Tlf. (511) 97092266