PROTECTION
The government made limited progress in victim protection, though

most victims lacked access to specialized services. Authorities did not employ systematic procedures for identifying trafficking victims among vulnerable populations and did not maintain reliable victim identification statistics. Some officials appeared to fail to identify labor trafficking victims and distinguish between women engaged in prostitution and sex trafficking victims. Some police and prosecutors expected adult victims to self-identify in front of other potential victims and traffickers during raids. Based on incomplete police data, police identified 165 potential trafficking victims in 2014; of these, 140 were adults and 25 children, and 152 were female and 13 male.This represents a significant decrease from 664 potential victims police reported identifying in 2013. Ministry of Defense officials reported identifying six children and six adults subjected to forced labor by the Shining Path in 2014.
The government had no formal process for referring trafficking victims to services, and it was unclear how many total victims received which services, including shelter.The Ministry of Women andVulnerable Populations (MIMP) reported assisting 177 trafficking victims, including 122 girls, 17 boys, 38 women, and no men; the cases of adult women appeared to include women engaged in prostitution. Shelter and specialized psychological, employment, and other services remained unavailable in most areas and for most adults and labor trafficking victims. Several ministries had victim assistance protocols, some of which were published in 2014, though most were implemented unevenly. MIMP was required by law to coordinate and provide services to trafficking victims in partnership with regional governments, but lacked funding or capacity to fulfill this mandate. MIMP had a budget of 752,000 soles ($260,000) to implement its protection responsibilities for victims. After gathering testimony, police often sent victims home, at times relying on NGOs or traffickers for funding, instead of referring them to care services, often because those services did not exist. MIMP opened the first dedicated shelter for girl victims of sex trafficking; this shelter provided services to 14 victims in 2014. In December 2014, MIMP assisted a municipal government in Madre de Dios to use an inoperative government shelter to provide services to female victims of violence, including trafficking; it reported assisting two trafficking victims. Many government shelters for vulnerable children lacked space to house victims. Likewise, government emergency centers for women provided no shelter and no specialized services for victims. Authorities did not report how many Peruvian victims abroad they assisted or repatriated in 2014, and funding for reintegration was lacking.
The prosecutorial program for victims and witnesses assisted 144 trafficking victims in 2014. Authorities were required to provide victims with a public defender during prosecutions of traffickers, but did not report how many victims received this assistance in 2014.Victims often received inadequate protection and assistance during judicial processes, and many victims experienced aggressive questioning without an attorney or family member present. Some officials did not sufficiently protect the privacy of trafficking victims. The government did not report any victims receiving restitution. There were no reports of the government penalizing victims for unlawful acts committed as a direct result of being subjected to trafficking. Foreign victims were eligible for temporary and permanent residency status under Peruvian refugee law, but the government did not report how many victims, if any, received this status in 2014.

PREVENTION
The government maintained prevention efforts.The interagency

committee, which also included NGOs and international organizations, met regularly, though participants reported that some ministries did not fully participate. The committee issued an annual report on anti-trafficking efforts.The government had a separate commission and inter-ministerial plan and protocol against forced labor, which lacked a budget for implementation. Twenty-two regional governments maintained anti-trafficking working groups, which varied in effectiveness and some of which relied on NGOs for coordination. Most government entities lacked adequate funding to implement their duties as outlined in the national anti-trafficking action plan.Various ministries conducted awareness-raising efforts, often in partnership with international organizations and NGOs and with foreign donor funding. Some of these efforts focused on preventing child sex tourism.The labor inspection unit focused on child and forced labor, established in 2013, did not identify any forced labor victims in 2014. Authorities did not report prosecutions or convictions of child sex tourists in 2014. The government took efforts to reduce the demand for commercial sex acts involving children in partnership with civil society, but did not report efforts to reduce the demand for forced labor.The government did not provide anti-trafficking training or guidance for its diplomatic personnel.The government provided Peruvian peacekeepers with specific training on human trafficking prior to their deployment abroad on international peacekeeping missions.

PHILIPPINES: Tier 2 
The Philippines is a source country and, to a much lesser extent, a destination and transit country for men, women, and children subjected to sex trafficking and forced labor. Many victims exploited overseas and domestically experience physical and sexual abuse, threats, inhumane living conditions, nonpayment of salaries, and withholding of travel and identity documents. An estimated 10 million Filipinos migrate abroad for work, and many are subjected to sex trafficking and forced labor—including through debt bondage—in the fishing, construction, education, nursing, shipping, and agricultural industries, as well as in domestic work, janitorial service, and other hospitality-related jobs throughout the Middle East, Asia, Europe, and North America. Traffickers, typically in partnership with small local networks, engage in recruitment practices that leave migrant workers vulnerable to trafficking, such as charging excessive fees and confiscating identification documents.Traffickers also use email and social media to fraudulently recruit Filipinos for overseas work. Illicit recruiters use student, intern, and exchange program visas to circumvent the Philippine government and destination countries’ regulatory frameworks for foreign workers.
Forced labor and sex trafficking of men, women, and children within the country remains a significant problem.Women and children— many from impoverished families, typhoon-stricken communities, and conflict-affected areas in Mindanao—undocumented returnees, and internally displaced persons are subjected to domestic servitude, forced begging, forced labor in small factories, and sex trafficking in Manila, Cebu, Angeles, and urbanized cities in Mindanao. Trafficking also occurs in tourist destinations such as Boracay, Olongapo, Puerto Galera, and Surigao where there is a high demand for commercial sex acts. Men are subjected to forced labor and debt bondage in agriculture, fishing, and maritime industries. The UN reports armed militia groups operating in the Philippines, including the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, the