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Announcing a New Organization in Latin America

Interamerican Center against Disappearances, Exploitation and Trafficking. New NGO in Peru and soon to be in Costa Rica with the objective to work in all Latin-American region. Latin America lacks an organization that promotes and coordinates initiatives in this field. We want to be this organization. CIDETT has the support of Save the Children Sweden, the American Bar Association, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children in the US, and the Organisation of American States (OAS).

CIDETT is implementing the Latin American network, 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. Families and organizations can consult the database, and it has become a useful tool to find disappeared people and to save them from networks of traffic and exploitation. We have implemented this data base in 7 countries: Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Chile, Costa Rica, Guatemala and Nicaragua. This year, CIDETT will implement the database in Puerto Rico, Brasil, Belize and Dominican Republic. They 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 information abpit each country can be accessed.

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
Tel. (511) 97092266