E/CN.4/2005/85/Add.4 page 5 7. In Tumbes, she held working meetings with representatives of the regional government, members of the security forces, the Director-General of the Department of Migration and Naturalization, the director of the Migration Office, the regional director of the Decentralized Office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, officials of the Decentralized Office of the Ombudsman and the Peruvian consuls in Loja and Macará. The Special Rapporteur also met members of the Tumbes Inter-Institutional Forum on Migrants and Human Rights and Peruvians living in Cuenca, Ecuador. 8. In Tacna, she met local government representatives, the director of the Migration Office, the regional director of the Decentralized Office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Peruvian consuls in Arica and Iquique and officials of the Decentralized Office of the Ombudsman. She also interviewed representatives of the Pastoral Group on Human Mobility of the Episcopal Conference in Tacna, Iquique and Arica, ADEHSUR, and migrant and human rights organizations in Santiago, Chile. The Special Rapporteur had the opportunity to hear the testimony of Peruvian migrant workers in an irregular administrative situation employed in domestic service, machine shops and farms in Arica, Chile. 9. During her mission, the Special Rapporteur visited two prisons in Lima: the Sarita Colonia prison in Callao and the Santa Mónica prison in Chorrillos. She had meetings with foreign prisoners in these establishments, in private and with no prison officials present, and also talked with several of them individually. II. INTERNATIONAL LEGAL FRAMEWORK 10. Peru is a party to the core United Nations human rights instruments,1 with the exception of the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs informed the Special Rapporteur that the President of Peru was due to sign this convention in New York on 22 September 2004, enabling the internal procedures for its ratification to be initiated. At the regional level, Peru is a party to the American Convention on Human Rights. 11. With reference to the instruments adopted by the International Labour Organization (ILO), Peru has ratified the Forced Labour Convention, 1930 (No. 29), but not the Migration for Employment Convention (Revised), 1949 (No. 97) or the Migrant Workers (Supplementary Provisions) Convention, 1975 (No. 143). 12. The United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, as well as the Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air and the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, which supplement the Convention, entered into force on 29 September 2003. Peru has also ratified the Inter-American Convention on International Traffic in Minors, signed in Mexico City on 18 March 1994. III. PERUVIAN EMIGRATION 13. At the time of the Special Rapporteur’s visit, the Office of the Under-Secretary for Peruvian Communities Abroad estimated that in all there were 1,783,973 Peruvians outside Peru. The Office acknowledged, however, that this was a conservative figure compared with other